Jardine Studio
SERVICE / WEB DESIGN

A website that finally looks like the calibre of the business.

Jardine Studio designs marketing sites for founder-led businesses where the site has to do real work. Visual identity for the web, page composition, type and colour systems, hero treatments, and the design rules that make every page feel like the same business at its best.

WHAT IT IS

Design that makes the website feel like the business at its best.

Most marketing sites stop at "looks fine." Web design at Jardine Studio goes further: visual identity for the web, page-level composition, type and colour systems, and the design rules that make every page on the site feel like one considered piece of work, not a stack of templates pretending to belong together.

The goal is a site that looks like the version of your business you would put in a magazine, with the design system underneath to keep it that way for years.

DESIGN ACROSS NICHES

Brand-led design that reads across very different rooms.

Reference builds across hospitality, wellness, fitness, and destination. Each is a working interactive site built in the studio, not a real client engagement. Click any card to open it inside the studio.

WHEN DESIGN HELPS

Design work pays for itself when the site is holding the business back.

Five patterns show up over and over. If one of them sounds like the version of your business you would rather not be running, design work is probably the right starting point, even if the eventual fix is a single page system rather than a full rebuild.

  • 01

    The site does not look like the calibre of the business

    You have built a real practice, real expertise, and real proof. The website does not show it. Buyers compare you to companies you outclass and bounce before they read.

  • 02

    A rebrand happened, the website never caught up

    New logo, new colours, new direction, but the website still wears the old skin. Page-level design has not been re-thought, just patched. Buyers see the gap.

  • 03

    Templates have stopped flexing

    A starter theme worked for the first two years. Now you sell more, photograph more, and write more, and the layout cannot hold all of it. Pages start to feel cluttered or thin.

  • 04

    The current design feels generic

    Nothing on the page is wrong. Nothing is memorable either. The site looks like a category, not a business. Premium pricing reads as overpriced because the visual language does not match the price.

  • 05

    You have great photography no one sees

    Real photography of the work, the team, the place, the clients. The site has not been designed around it. Hero composition is generic, image treatment is flat, the photos sit there without doing work.

WHAT WE DESIGN

Eight pieces of design work that make a marketing site feel made.

Real projects pull from a few of these at once, scoped around the actual constraint and what the business needs the site to do over the next year.

  • Visual identity for the website

    Logo handling, typography pairs, colour palette, spacing system, and the visual rules that keep every page feeling like the same business. Designed for the web first; print and packaging are referred out.

  • Page design and composition

    Hero treatments, content rhythm, image and video composition, layout patterns, and the visual moves that decide where the eye lands and how the page reads at a glance.

  • Marketing site rebuilds

    Full design rebuilds for businesses whose current site no longer reflects the work. Old templates, dated styling, and weak layouts replaced with a system designed around your actual offering.

  • Hero and landing page systems

    Reusable hero patterns, landing page templates, and conversion-focused page designs for service pages, lead pages, and campaign pages, all built to flex without breaking.

  • Type and colour systems

    Type scale, leading, tracking, vertical rhythm, and colour roles defined as design tokens. The system the developer (us, or yours) extends every time a new page or feature ships.

  • Photography and image direction

    Direction on what to shoot, how to crop, and how to present photography on the site. Includes treatment rules, fallback patterns, and lightweight art-direction notes for the team or your photographer.

  • Component and pattern design

    Cards, tables, callouts, testimonials, FAQ rows, CTAs, and the small interactive moments that make the site feel made instead of templated.

  • Design QA and launch polish

    Pre-launch design review across breakpoints, browsers, and real content. The pixel-level work that catches mismatched spacing, weak fallbacks, and "this looks fine but feels off" moments before buyers see them.

WHY JARDINE STUDIO

Design works best when it carries the business forward, not just the page.

A great-looking page that breaks the moment a developer touches it, or that ranks poorly because the design ignored search, is a half-finished job. Jardine Studio designs the website with the build, the SEO, and the way the team will operate it after launch all in view.

  • Design and engineering live in the same studio

    Design tokens, components, and layouts pass straight into the build with no handoff loss. Decisions made on the design side actually ship.

  • Useful before impressive

    The page should be easy to scan, easy to act on, and easy to live with. Visual flourish never blocks the buyer from doing the thing the site is supposed to make easier.

  • Designed for the work, not the deck

    No mood boards that never become real pages. Every design decision is made against the real content, real photography, and real way buyers move through the site.

  • Built to keep working after launch

    The design system survives the launch. Adding pages, services, or campaigns later does not require redesigning the foundation each time.

COMMON DESIGN PROJECTS

A few ways design work usually starts.

Most engagements settle into one of these shapes, then get scoped around the actual constraint and the way the team plans to use the design system after launch.

  1. 01

    Marketing site redesign

    For businesses whose website no longer looks like the work. Full design rebuild, new identity for the web, page system, and design tokens for the build.

  2. 02

    Service page system

    For founder-led businesses with five or more service lines that need a consistent, well-designed page template that flexes across them all.

  3. 03

    Hero and landing page work

    For campaign pages, lead pages, or pages that need to convert harder than the standard service page. Designed around the offer, the proof, and the next action.

  4. 04

    Design system + tokens

    For teams that already have a developer (in-house or outside) and need the design system, tokens, and component patterns to extend the site themselves.

  5. 05

    Visual identity refresh for the web

    For businesses with a brand mark and palette that exist but never got translated into a real web design system. We close the gap.

HOW DESIGN IS HANDLED

Six principles every design engagement runs on.

Good marketing-site design is mostly restraint. Six principles shape every project so the result feels considered rather than decorated, and stays useful long after the launch checklist is closed.

  • One accent, one role

    A single accent colour with a defined job (italic emphasis, focus rings, active links) keeps the page calm. Multiple accents pull the eye in too many directions.

  • Type that does work

    Two or three families, paired intentionally. Display for voice, body for clarity, mono for data and labels. Every weight and size choice is justified, not decorative.

  • Layout that reads, not decorates

    Whitespace, vertical rhythm, and grid choices designed to guide the eye through the page in the order the buyer needs to see things.

  • Photography on purpose

    Real photography placed where it earns its space. No stock people in offices. If the photography is not ready, we use design moves that do not pretend otherwise.

  • Motion that has a job

    Reveals, hover states, and interaction polish only where they help comprehension or feedback. Motion that decorates without communicating gets cut.

  • Design tokens that survive

    Colour, spacing, type, and radius defined as tokens the developer can extend. The site stays consistent as new pages and features ship over months and years.

QUESTIONS

Things worth knowing.

The questions below come up often when businesses are weighing whether they need a redesign, a smaller design system engagement, or design plus the build.

How is your design different from a Squarespace or Webflow template?
Templates start from a generic shape and ask the business to fit inside. We start from the business and design the shape. That means the typography, layout, page rhythm, and visual decisions are made for your work, your photography, your services, and the way your buyers actually decide. The site should look like your business at its best, not like a category.
Do you handle full visual identity, or just web design?
Web design is the focus. We handle visual identity for the website (typography, colour, layout, page systems, component patterns) and we work well alongside an existing brand. If you need a full standalone brand identity for print, packaging, signage, or other non-web touchpoints, we will say so up front and refer you to a brand designer.
Will I get a brand kit, or just a website?
You get the design system the website is built on: typography, colour, spacing rules, component patterns, and the design tokens your developer can extend later. It is a working system, not a deck. If you need a separate standalone brand book for non-web use, that is a separate engagement.
Do design, development, and SEO happen together or separately?
In any order, or all together. Some clients hire us only for design and bring their own developer. Some hire only the SEO. Most hire all three because the work compounds: a site designed for clarity ranks better, a site built with SEO in mind designs better, and a site that looks like the business converts better. Pick what you need.
Can you redesign without rebuilding?
Sometimes. If the current platform supports the new design system, yes. If the existing build is brittle, slow, or makes the new design hard to ship cleanly, we will tell you. A redesign on a foundation that cannot hold it does not stay clean for long.
How long does design work take?
A typical marketing-site redesign runs four to eight weeks for design, then sits inside a longer development engagement when the build is part of the scope. Smaller pieces (a single landing page, a service page system, a design tokens engagement) run shorter.

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