Media & culture
Editorial platforms with a point of view. Memberships, archives and reading experiences worth paying for.
Where we focus
- FocusEditorial CMS
- FocusMembership & paywall UX
- FocusArchive design
- FocusAudio & video experiences
What we do here
Building in media & culture?
Tell us the constraint — regulation, legacy stack, impossible deadline. We have probably met it before.
Start a projectReview your content like a portfolio
A quarterly content benchmarking ritual: sort every article into winners, flatliners and sleepers, then give each piece one of three decisions — prune, refresh or expand.
Bylines and author pages: small design, big trust
Named authors quietly outperform faceless content on every metric we track. The anatomy of a trustworthy byline and an author page worth visiting.
Editorial grids on the web: rhythm, breakout, and restraint
The sequel to our editorial grid philosophy: the CSS mechanics of full-bleed breakouts, captions and pull quotes as real components, and a governance model for restraint.
Verdigris Archive: 80,000 botanical plates, searchable in a blink
A botanical museum put 80,000 plates online with fast faceted search, a deep-zoom viewer and public-domain downloads. Search success rose 63%.
The Corrowong Trust: an archive people actually browse
How we rebuilt a regional museum group's 180,000-item digital archive around wandering instead of database forms — and made it funding-proof.
Quillon Games — a community platform for a two-studio indie label
A two-studio indie label trades a scattered Discord for a community hub: patch notes that rank, roadmap voting, and a moderated fan-creation gallery.