On the web, your brand only exists when someone visits. It’s not the logo. It’s not the colours sitting in a brand book nobody opens. It’s the thing itself, alive for the few seconds a stranger decides whether you’re worth their attention.
Most people treat their website as the last item on the list. The place the brand gets parked once the real work is done. So it gets shoved into a template, or handed along a chain of people who never met the brand. It loads, it works, and it’s forgotten by morning.
I believe the website is the brand, not a container for it. It’s the one that’s alive, and everything else is just paper.
So I make sites that feel like someone is home. A guest arrives empty handed and leaves carrying your name.
I draw it and I build it. Nothing is handed off, so nothing is lost. Every decision stays connected to the original idea, right down to the way the site moves, responds and feels.
It’s the way I’ve always done it.

Profile
I’m a New Zealand-based designer and developer with more than twenty years’ experience.
In 2012, I founded Grafik, an independent studio making websites that define brands.
I don’t treat identity as a phase that ends before the website begins. I shape it in the medium where people will actually experience it.
I work across identity, motion, design and code, with websites at the centre. That range lets me take the work from its first idea through to its final form.
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Recognition
Grafik’s work has been recognised by Awwwards, the Best Awards, W3, AGDA and the Type Directors Club.
It is regularly featured by Siteinspire, Godly, Typewolf, The Brand Identity and Muzli. I’ve served on juries for Awwwards, D&AD and the Best Awards.
One of Grafik’s website designs was licensed by Apple for a Safari campaign.

