Yes we work

We are creatives and experts who design and code to help you communicate clearly, engage audiences and share values

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Insightful, distinctive ideas

We put our expertise and creativity to work for the people who matter most to you

Intelligence, curiosity and ethics

We work for people we respect, in sectors we care about, on projects we believe in

Long-lasting solutions

Our websites and digital tools are designed and built to work robustly for years… or decades

Collaboration at the right level

We can work as ad-hoc strategic consultants, or as a pseudo-in-house department

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News, publishing and literary

We structure and design editorial websites that inform people. We optimise content management tools and workflows to help teams of writers and editors publish efficiently. We design a monthly print newspaper, and develop and maintain the e-commerce and crowdfunding platform that funds it.

  • Consistent yet flexible cross-platform and cross-media design
  • Optimised workflows for lean, busy newsrooms
  • Affordable and efficient editorial tools that help tell stories and build understanding, for more engaged, supportive audiences

We’ve worked for

Byline Times ✺ read case study
Coda Story
Hyphen
Nourish
Forkast News
Byline Investigates

Academia, think-tanks, NGOs and charities

We help organisations (and individuals) present expert findings engagingly to peers, target audiences, and journalists, and convincingly to funders and to donors.

  • Clear, appropriate design for authoritative content (whether in print, online or for presentations and seminars)
  • Easy-to-use templates and assets to allow self-publishing, and workflows for in-house production, data updates and content maintenance
  • Reader-friendly content structures, navigation and calls to action
  • Attention to detail, respect for data for information and consistency across media

We’ve worked for

Resolution Foundation
Baby Bank Alliance
RH Graham Ltd
Citizens Advice
Power to Change
Centre for Cities
Purposeful Ventures
RSPCA North London
HEAT GmbH / EU
CGA Technologies
Perivoli Schools

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Arts, culture and archives

We set up, migrate or adapt websites to be appreciated by the expert, the passionate, and the curious. And we build them so they can be maintained autonomously, easily (and cheaply) by teams of not-necessarily-technical people

  • A fully-featured, bespoke website (that lasts)
  • Content structures and taxonomy closely tied to the groupings and divisions of your specific field
  • A clean admin interface without the nags, glitches and clutter that get in the way of simple tasks
  • Tools to help remote teams to work together smoothly

We’ve worked for

London Art History Society
British Archaeological Association
Hellenic Centre
UK Jewish Film
Zurich Salon
Piatti Quartet
I Am (Sri Lanka)

Dashboards, data and interfaces

We design and implement clear, appropriate ways of gathering and presenting key information to help people make decisions and take action.

  • Usable, manageable, verifiable data
  • Robust, responsive, intuitive interfaces based on maintainable code
  • Reusable components

We’ve worked for

Penguin Random House
Perivoli Schools
CGA Technologies
CEEDA
Lifefront / EU Life

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WordPress consultancy and customisation

A long-term focus on editorial and content-rich projects has made us world experts in WordPress, Gutenberg, and Full-Site Editing. We make WordPress work for you and your visitors.

  • Plugins, blocks, components, integrations, and complete themes designed and coded for a CMS that fits your needs, yet maintains compatibility with WordPress Core
  • Experience with WooCommerce, Stripe and other payment and revenue systems to keep you in business
  • Integration with proprietary and third-party APIs, and with your critical legacy systems and business software
  • Well-structured, secure, stable and maintainable code, monitored and iterated for 100% performance against Google Web Vitals and other benchmarks
  • Content, taxonomy and structures audited and improved alongside editors
  • Mulitingual expertise for internationalised and localised projects, and experience of coding and designing for accessibility

We’ve worked for

Penguin Random House
Byline Times ✺ read case study
WikiTribune
Hyphen Online
Coda Story
Axate
Lifefront EU
RefNat4Life
Hellenic Centre
British Archaeological Association

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our wordpress tool shop

As Fabrica, we build plugins, blocks and utilities – some free, some paid – to help others get more out of the platform.

Dashboard (5★)
Synced Pattern Instances (5★)
Fabrica Dev Kit (270★ on Github)

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Let’s work together

Our way of working adds more than just the value of the products we design and code: our partners trust us as strategic advisors right from early brainstorming to help shape their thinking about what they need, who it’s for and how to achieve it… within budget and without reinventing wheels. 

This combined with our attention to detail, dependability, personability and availability are some of the reasons why we’re still working with many clients after 10-15 years. 

We want to keep talking to exciting people about meaningful projects. To make them work and keep them working.

Contact us
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