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Sanctuary Computer
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Sibling company of XXIX
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Building thoughtful, human-centric products through an open and transparent approach to timelines and estimates.

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  • Full Stack Apps
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  • Custom eCommerce
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  • Healthcare
  • Internet of Things
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  • Full Stack Apps
  • Product Design & MVPs
  • Custom eCommerce
  • Greenfield Innovation
  • Healthcare
  • Internet of Things
  • Lifestyle
  • Sophisticated Websites
  • Staff Augmentation
  • Aida

    Branding, packaging and website for the creative modern food brand Aida.

  • Sun Day

    A participatory tool and digital experience for a sun-powered future: Drawing thousands into a movement for climate action.

  • Alison Roman

    A centralized platform for recipes, newsletters, and editorial storytelling, built for creative independence.

  • Cosmos

    Front-end builds for a fast-changing brand.

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Sun Day

500+ events in 49 states organised through sunday.earth (September 21, 2025)

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Alison Roman

Alison Roman moved her newsletter and recipe archive off Substack onto a unified self-hosted home - establishing creative independence at alisoneroman.com.

Labs & Network

Cosmos

$15M Series A co-led by Shine Capital and Matrix Partners, with GV, Accel and Squarespace's Anthony Casalena

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Light Three

TIME Best Inventions 2025 recognition for the Light Phone III

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Mozilla
Google
Pinterest
Etsy
Hinge
  • Parafin

    A brand system for Parafin, including strategy, visual identity, art direction, and a website.

  • Brooklyn Museum

    A digital platform that connects, contextualizes, and elevates every corner of the museum.

  • Figma Typography

    Web and social design for Figma to announce the launch of the product's new variable fonts feature.

  • Harvey.ai

    Bringing motion, clarity, and adaptability to a fast-moving legal AI brand.

  • We’re fluent in 15+ programming languages, actively managing fleets of servers.
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Loupe

Our team builds highly performant full stack apps for Web, iOS & Android.

Our work in Full Stack Apps
  • Williamstown Theatre Festival

    A digital stage for the next act of an iconic festival.

  • CivLab

    Bringing radical government transparency to life with a data visualization platform designed for accessibility.

  • Thea

    App and website design for Thea, an AI-powered platform that analyzes a user’s voice to detect real-time emotion and delivers music to either deepen the feeling or guide them toward equilibrium.

  • Mac Miller: Swimming

    An website experience to celebrate 5 years of Mac Miller's 2018 album, Swimming.

  • Greenwashing Certified™
    Greenwashing Certified™

    Pt. 1 - Corporate sustainability's shortcomings

  • Survival Theater
    Survival Theater

    Love Island, layoffs, and the end of backstage life

  • Our open source 2021 Profit & Loss
    Our open source 2021 Profit & Loss

    Our meaningful action in DEI, sustainability, charitable giving, and decentralization

  • Hinge

    Content migration and feature development for the Hinge marketing site

  • neoNutritions

    A website for neoNutritions and its universe of transformation, drawing from the world's ancient traditions.

  • Magic Leap

    Improving the editor experience with a new CMS for the Magic Leap marketing site.

  • Modern Life

    Brand, art direction, web, and digital product design for Modern Life, an insurance agency for the future.

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  • Love enters through the eyes. Our team hails from design, fashion, music and art backgrounds, applying their sophisticated taste to our work.
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What really stood out was their ability to translate our very ‘non-technical’ ideas into solutions that balanced both function and beauty. They didn’t just execute, they interpreted, refined, and elevated.

Alison Roman
  • Homebound

    Brand and Website for the custom homebuilding company.

  • Baggu Custom

    A website to show and order the variety of ways to customize BAGGU products.

  • Firefly

    An adaptive marketing site for a modern approach to comprehensive healthcare.

  • Pratt School of Architecture

    Website and visual identity for Pratt School of Architecture and its diverse range of programs.

  • Expansive Brands
    Expansive Brands

    How garden3d centers humanity when building brands.

  • Substantive Sustainability
    Substantive Sustainability

    Pt. 2 - How to build corporate climate programs that are effective and resonant

  • garden3d 2023 Sustainability Report
    garden3d 2023 Sustainability Report

    Reviewing our impact as a growing creative business amid a changing climate.

  • Salt & Stone

  • Swell

    A documentation site for self-starting entrepreneurs.

  • Air Company

    Content strategy, art direction, campaign imagery, and website design for a company that turns CO2 into a revolutionary line of products.

  • Uniswap

    A unified design system for a seamless onchain experience

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Our engineering team specializes in building software and APIs for connected hardware products.

Our work in Internet of Things
  • Aplós

    A digital design system and e-commerce site for a new kind of non-alcoholic beverage.

  • BBG Ventures

    Branding and website design for a female-led venture fund investing in a new generation of founders.

  • Gnosis

    Inspired by their mission to create decentralized technology for all, we crafted a new brand language for Gnosis that reflects the ethos of the early web.

  • Index

    We designed a digital platform to support marketing and registration for programs produced by and for the creative community.

  • Our 2021 Sustainability Report
    Our 2021 Sustainability Report

    Our Review, Reflections, and Goals for the Future

  • Mapping San Francisco's Government
    Mapping San Francisco's Government

    with Michael Adams from CivLab

  • Oh, to Be Known By My Computer!
    Oh, to Be Known By My Computer!

    A pattern for designing intelligent products

  • Ronan

    Visual identity and website for the best pizza place in LA.

  • Geneva

    A website and brand identity for Geneva, a chat app centered around connecting communities wherever they are.

  • Fishbird

    Brand and website for anti-consultancy Fishbird. Fishbird coaches teams and leaders to enable their true potential. We worked with their founding team to build a brand and digital platform that captures the essence of the Fishbird experience. In harmony with Fishbird’s philosophy, the website and communication tools we created ask questions rather than reveal answers.

  • Loupe This

    A custom-built, real-time auction engine and online community for luxury watch enthusiasts and collectors.

Truly, incredible partners. I bring you guys up in every conversation last few days… Really couldn’t ask for anything else.

Harvey
  • Endless West

    A website for Endless West and its 100% molecular whisky Glyph.

  • by Humankind

    A website for a line of plastic-free personal care products.

  • Le Fleuriste

    Visual identity and website for a botanical creative agency.

  • Mailchimp

    A website for Mailchimp’s internal brand studio showcasing their varied work.

  • We’re a small team of design-oriented software developers, with a strong understanding of user experience and product.
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  • Mozilla

    Website for the Mozilla and Firefox brand.

  • Nobel — Women Who Changed Science

    Discover the stories and connections between women who changed science

  • ACLU

    Site for ACLU’s 50 State Blueprint that aimed to reduce the incarceration rate for minor offenses by 50%.

  • Antfood

    A website for the best audio studio in the world.

Brooklyn Museum
Nike
Mailchimp
Dropbox
Parsons
Figma
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Parafin

$100M Series C at a $750M valuation, led by Notable Capital (December 2024)

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Brooklyn Museum

200 years of museum history launched on the bicentennial digital platform

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Figma Typography

Web and social design for Figma's variable-fonts launch - the canonical landing page Figma still hosts at figma.com/typography/variable-fonts.

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Harvey.ai

$11B valuation reached at $200M Series E led by GIC and Sequoia (March 2026)

  • Buoy

    Design system, website, and art direction for a health assistant where that guides you on your way to well.

  • Colophon

  • IBM Event Design

    A top level IBM Design discipline destination site.

  • Parsons

    Website, strategy and custom typeface for the MPS in communication design.

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Arena

$32M raised across rounds led by Initialized, Goldcrest, Founders Fund, Peter Thiel and Gen. David Petraeus

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CivLab

54 city departments with full budget breakdowns surfaced in the SF Government Graph

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Mac Miller: Swimming

5-year anniversary celebration of Swimming, anchored on listentotheuniverse.com

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Mill

Half a ton of greenhouse gas emissions avoided per Mill member household per year

IBM
AT&T
Pratt Institute
ACLU
Harvey
  • Storq

    Visual identity and website for a maternity and motherhood clothing line.

  • IBM Plex

    A website for IBM’s typeface IBM Plex.

  • Google SPAN

    Website and digital signage for the Google’s SP–AN design & technology conference 2017.

  • MIT-IBM

    Visual identity for the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

  • We’re friendly, transparent, communicative and hospitable, as it’s our best relationships that produce the most meaningful work.
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  • Dropbox

    A website for Dropbox’s visual identity.

  • OKREAL

    Visual identity and editorial website for a curation of wisdom shared by aspirational women.

  • AYR

    An website for a clothing line that designs seasonless essentials for everyday life.

  • XXXI

    Internal project: Everything for ❶ a mixed-use community space for designers (and others) to exhibit, teach, and explore self-initiated work; ❷ a shared studio space; ❸ a residency for designers; and ❹ an online (and sometimes physical) store.