A risograph print studio in Rotterdam. Every image on the site is printed ink by ink, with the misregistration a riso really has.
(The studio)
QUIRE is a web design studio in Romania. We make sites for businesses, for people with a body of work, and for subjects that deserve a site of their own.
- Sites built
- 56
- Rounds of review
- 79
- Median review score
- 7.6/10
- Award-winning sites studied, one per build
- 54
Featured work
All 56 sites
A night-opening carnivorous-plant nursery in a Bermondsey railway arch. The Venus flytrap on the first screen really snaps shut.
MUSCIPULA
A volunteer group that records moths at a light trap on a Purbeck heath: twelve real species with their true flight months.
SALLOW
A Norwich studio that designs pop-up and movable books. The home page is a carousel book of five paper scenes that turns as you scroll.
MOUNTAIN & VALLEY
A Bucharest interior design studio. Drag the sun around a floor plan and see which rooms get the light.
STEFAN & MING
A personal stylist in Brașov: wardrobe edits, shopping, event outfits. Tap a garment and it goes onto the dress form.
ANA PETRESCU
Latest
The last ten sites, newest first. Review scores are out of 10, the low ones included.
- N°56 URFORM Karl Blossfeldt plate room, Berlin Self-initiated Oct 2026 7.8
- N°55 PEEL CLUB Fruit-sticker swap club, Valencia Brief Oct 2026 7.0
- N°54 IMPRIMATUR Penny stamps, 1840–1881 Self-initiated Oct 2026 7.8
- N°53 1P/HALLEY Every return of Halley's Comet Self-initiated Oct 2026 7.8
- N°52 RAVEN LENDERS „Columnar” Small-business funding Redesign Oct 2026 7.6
- N°51 RAVEN LENDERS „Batch Close” Small-business funding Redesign Oct 2026 7.6
- N°50 RAVEN LENDERS „Running Balance” Small-business funding Redesign Oct 2026 7.3
- N°49 RAVEN LENDERS „Plumage” Small-business funding Redesign Oct 2026 7.8
- N°48 RAVEN LENDERS „Intaglio” Small-business funding Redesign Oct 2026 7.9
- N°47 LECTA B2B lead lists Brief Oct 2026 7.7
What we make
12 briefs
For a business
A site that says what you do, for whom, where, and how to reach you, in your language.
12 redesigns
A redesign
Your current site rebuilt. When the right answer isn't obvious, we make more than one direction.
4 portfolios
A portfolio
One person's work, shown as the work itself: captures, timings, the code behind it.
28 self-initiated
A subject
Something real that deserves its own site: a craft, an archive, a comet. We choose these ourselves.
How a site gets made
Seven steps, shown on one real site: SALLOW, for a moth-recording group on a Purbeck heath.
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01
Study
We read the library: 151 award-winning sites and 18 best-selling templates, with 75 effects timed frame by frame. One site becomes the backbone.
SALLOW was built on
ironhill
with the motion of ruinart-digital-fresco
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02
Direction
Two or three directions, each one backbone, one source of motion and one idea taken from the subject itself.
The idea for SALLOW
One engraving engine draws every moth, every foodplant and the night heath, like hand-tinted copperplate.
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03
Research
Facts about the subject from encyclopaedias, archives and museum collections, each with its source. The words only use what was found.
What the research gave SALLOW
12 real species
with their true flight months.
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04
Lab
The site's own picture engine is tuned on a bare page, round after round, before any page exists.
The engine's plates, tuned before the pages -
05
Build
Vite, plain JavaScript, GSAP and Lenis. WebGL or canvas only where the subject needs it.
The first screen, as built -
06
Test
A real browser at 1440×900, 1680×950 and 390×844. Every transition is recorded frame by frame and checked.
On a 390 px phone, as the test saw it -
07
Review
A critic scores each round out of 10 against the reference sites. If it falls short, another round follows.
SALLOW, round 2
7.8/10
“The engraving engine: hand-tinted copperplate moths on foodplants, and night chapters flipped to white-line scraperboard, both read as real printed plates. This is the strongest thing on the site.”
(Start a site)