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Rare Dimension

Hello stranger!

About

We're a small team of designers based in the Pacific Northwest.

We have strong opinions about websites and even stronger opinions about coffee. Only one of those is relevant to you.

We're solid with the technical stuff.

Web design, WordPress, custom plugins, frontend animation, and branding. But we're more interested in being thoughtful people to work with. No corporate overhead, no bureaucracy between you and the folks building your site. Just a lightweight team that moves fast, listens carefully, and genuinely cares about seeing your work thrive. And yes- we will absolutely overthink your button colors.

We believe the web is where your story gets told.

Where people form their first impression, and where ideas actually reach the world. Everything we do starts from that understanding.

You have something worth sharing. We'd love to help you build the place that shares it.

Designer + Creative Director

Matt Pahler

Matt is a multi-disciplinary creative with over a decade of experience freelancing in the nonprofit, entertainment, tech, and business industries. His career has spanned many design disciplines including WordPress-based web design, digital artwork & editing, print, branding, photo retouching, and project management.
The mixture of these different skills allows him to approach projects with a unique perspective on how to blend tools and skills in order to achieve beautiful results.
Developer + Code Wrangler

Grant Eadie

Grant Eadie is a developer who's spent years building websites for everyone from massive enterprise platforms to scrappy startups. 
He builds fast, scalable sites that are just as clean under the hood as they are on the front end. Every project is designed to run like a dream and grow with your needs. He's obsessed with making sure the code you'll never see is just as thoughtful as the design you will.
Animation + 3D

Zack Dixon

Zack Dixon is a 3D artist based between Portland and Seattle who specializes in animation, graphics, and interactivity. He's worked across branded content, narrative projects, and experiential installations, often landing in creative director and post-production roles along the way.
He's fluent in Cinema 4D, Unreal Engine, Houdini, and more tools than most people know exist—plus enough scripting languages to make things actually work the way they're supposed to. But what sets him apart is how he thinks about projects: a background spanning multiple disciplines means clearer communication, better estimates, and fewer surprises.
When he's not working, he's probably underwater in the kelp forests of Puget Sound, volunteering as a conservation diver.

FAQ

Nonprofits, universities, municipalities, and businesses that align with our values. Organizations doing real work in the world who ended up with a website that doesn’t show it. If your site feels like it belongs in a time capsule, that’s kind of our whole thing.

It’s what we reach for most, but not out of habit. Most of our clients need a CMS they can actually use once we hand it off, and WordPress still does that better than almost anything. We’ve built with React, Next.js, Astro, Sanity, Drupal, all of it. We just pick the tool that fits the job, not the one that looks coolest on a conference slide.

 

Lots of listening up front. We audit what you’ve got, figure out what’s quietly broken, and build a plan before writing a single line of code. Design and dev happen together, not in separate rooms. You’ll see real work early and hear from us often enough that nothing catches you off guard.

Most rebuilds fall somewhere between 8 and 14 weeks. We’re not going to promise two weeks and ghost you at week six. We set timelines we can actually hit, and we’re upfront when something shifts.

Once we know the scope, absolutely. A content-heavy nonprofit site is a very different project than a university department portal, so we don’t do one-size-fits-all pricing. But we will give you a clear number before any work starts. No surprise invoices, no nickel-and-diming.

Yeah, kind of. Plugin bloat is one of the most common problems we see and one of the most satisfying to fix. We’ve taken sites from 50-something plugins down to around six without losing any functionality. Just the dead weight, the security holes, and the mystery plugins nobody remembers installing.

We stick around. We offer support and we’ll train your team so they feel comfortable making updates on their own. That said, we build things to be low-maintenance on purpose. We’d honestly rather set you up to not need us than lock you into a retainer.

Because we’re the ones doing the work. There’s no B-team. You get senior-level people on every project, and because we’re small, we’re picky about what we take on. That means when we say yes to your project, we’re actually excited about it. We’re not trying to be the biggest agency out there. We’re trying to be the one you don’t dread emailing.

Reach out! Tell us a little about your project, where you’re at with timelines, and what your budget looks like. We’ll hop on a call and figure out together if it’s a good fit.