CircleAroundPublishing platform
Web design
We have been building websites the whole time.
Lead-generation sites, e-commerce storefronts and fully custom builds. The web practice merged into Unicorn Studios this year, and the fifteen sites below are what it has shipped — a Girl Scouts publishing platform, a hemp topicals store, a fine-art photography archive, a trading app launching now.
The order of operations is the same one we use for a film. We decide what the site has to argue before anyone opens a design file, because rewriting the copy after launch usually means rebuilding the layout underneath it. Structure and words first, then design, then the build.
What we build
Lead generation
Sites with one job
A site whose purpose is qualified enquiries. Structure, copy and forms are designed around a single action, and analytics go in at build time rather than getting bolted on a quarter later.
E-commerce
Storefronts that survive a season
Shopify and WooCommerce builds, including catalogue migration, product templates and the merchandising pages a holiday season actually needs. Several of the stores below have been trading for years.
Custom
Builds with a back end
Member areas, galleries, booking flows and anything that needs a database behind it. Built in PHP or Laravel where WordPress would be the wrong tool for the job.
Campaign
The page the film points at
Launch sites built to the same narrative as the campaign, on a timeline that matches the shoot. The film and the landing page stop being two vendors and two schedules.
Reference
Sample templates we work with.
Where this work came from
Most of these sites were built by the web and digital team that merged into Unicorn Studios this year. Same people and the same build stack, now under one name in San Francisco. If you worked with us under the old one, nothing about who picks up the phone has changed. How the studio runs →
Need the site and the film to say the same thing?
Fifteen minutes, and a straight answer on scope and fit.
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