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Brand studio, Austin, Texas Sites from $2,400 · marks from $1,800 Four people, since 2016

Vorngix makes the website, wordmark, letterhead, menu, guidelines and business card for businesses in Austin that want to look finished.

A small brand studio in Austin doing website design, logos and the printed pieces a local business hands across the counter. One system for all of it, two revision rounds named before we start, and every source file is yours on the last day.

Fig. 01 Final proofs for a neighborhood restaurant: cards on 600 gsm cotton, letterhead on 120 gsm uncoated, a folded menu. Same two typefaces as the website we built for them.
01 · Overview

A brand studio in Austin that builds the base layer and then hands it over.

Most businesses that call us already have a decent logo. Their website argues with it in every color and every font. We design both from one system so they stop arguing.

Vorngix makes three things. Small websites, from a five-page starter to a fifteen-page business site, plus rebuilds of sites that have gone stale. Brand identity: a drawn wordmark with the color and type system around it, plus a guidelines document someone will actually open. And the everyday materials: cards, letterhead, menus, flyers, a set of social templates.

Our clients are local operators. A coffee roaster. An architect with six people. A bike shop, a physiotherapy clinic, a two-partner law office, a roofing contractor who is tired of explaining that the van and the website are the same company. They do not need a campaign. They need the name set in good type and a site that loads before the customer gives up.

Every site is hand-written HTML and CSS. No page builder, no monthly platform fee, no plugin that breaks on a Tuesday. You can host it anywhere that serves files, and if you fire us the site keeps working.

Identity work ships with the full source files and a one-page use sheet for the front desk. That sheet exists because the most common way a good logo dies is someone stretching it to fit a banner. Print gets proofed on the real stock before you sign. Screens lie about color.

Two rounds of revisions are included and written into the agreement before work starts. A third round usually means the brief was wrong, and we fix the brief first rather than push pixels around a problem nobody named.

Working since
2016
People
4
Director and designer, designer, front-end developer, writer-producer
Revision rounds
2
Named in writing before work starts
Homepage weight
< 400 KB
Most sites we rebuild arrive at around 6 MB
Source files
All of them, handed over on the last day. We do not hold a logo hostage.
Site bug fixes
30 days after launch, at no charge, as set out in the terms
Out of scope

What the studio does not do, and why

We do not run your ads or your social accounts. Other people do that well, and a studio that sells you both the site and the traffic has a reason to blur which one is working. We also stay out of anything that needs a database behind it.

  • Paid ad management, media buying or monthly SEO retainers
  • Online stores with carts, payments and stock control
  • Apps, member portals and booking systems built from scratch
  • Logo contests, speculative pitches or unpaid sample concepts

If what you need is on that list, say so on the first call. We will tell you who in Austin we would send you to.

03 · Proof

Three recent jobs: what was asked, what we decided, what changed.

No star ratings here and no quotes from happy clients. The work is the argument. Full cases with photographs are on the work page.

C.01

A coffee roaster with three logos

Roastery · identity, labels, starter site

Asked
One mark on the bags, another on the van, a third on a site somebody's cousin built. They wanted it to look like one roastery before a wholesale meeting.
Decided
Keep the name, drop all three marks. Draw one wordmark that survives a 40 mm label and a sign. Five-page site, no shop: wholesale buyers email anyway.
Changed
Bags, labels, cards and site now share two typefaces and one slate. The owner prints new single-origin labels from the template without calling us.
C.02

An architecture office on a page builder

Architects · business site rebuild

Asked
The portfolio took long enough to load that prospective clients saw a white screen first. Every project page had a different layout because three people had edited it over five years.
Decided
Keep every project and every URL. Replace the builder with hand-written pages on two templates: one for projects, one for everything else. Images served at the size they render.
Changed
The homepage now sits inside our 400 KB budget. Search engines kept the old addresses because none of them moved. The office adds a project by copying one file.
C.03

A physiotherapy clinic that looked like two clinics

Clinic · stationery, signage, guidelines

Asked
Appointment cards came from a print shop template, the wall sign from a sign shop, and they did not match. Patients asked if the clinic had changed owners.
Decided
Small identity system with a guidelines PDF and a use sheet taped inside the reception drawer. Cards proofed on two stocks before choosing the heavier one.
Changed
Reception now orders reprints and new signage from the use sheet alone. The next sign vendor got the files and the sheet, and got it right first time.

How a project runs, in four steps

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  1. 01 Call and brief Week 1

    Forty minutes on the phone or at the studio. We write the brief, the scope and the two revision rounds into one document and send it with the quote.

  2. 02 First design Weeks 1–2

    One direction, argued for in writing. We do not send six logos and ask you to pick. You get the reasoning and the work on real pages or real stock.

  3. 03 Two revision rounds Weeks 2–3

    Your notes, collected in one list per round. We answer each line: changed, or not changed and why. Print is proofed on the actual paper here.

  4. 04 Build and handover Week 3 onward

    The site goes live, the files go to the printer, and every source file goes to you. Sites carry a 30-day bug fix period after launch.

04 · Contact

Write to the studio about a site, a mark or a print job.

Three lines is enough: what you sell and what bothers you about how it looks now. A designer reads every message. There is no sales desk.

Studio
83 River Road, Office 12
Austin, Texas 02757
Visits by appointment. Open the address in a map app

No newsletter, no follow-up sequence. One reply from a person.

Tell us what you have now.

Set the page count, the identity tier and the print pieces in the estimator. You get a planning band in dollars and a rough number of weeks in about a minute.

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