Art Lessons by KayClient siteA warm, tactile site for a children's art studio, with a slideshow hero, a script marquee and a curtain-reveal close.I don't assemble websites. I forge them.
FUAAR is a one-person web design and build studio in Cape Town. Brand, design, motion and code, all hammered out by me.
FUAAR is a one-person web design and build studio in Cape Town. Brand, design, motion and code, all hammered out by me.
Hephaestus never shipped a template.
When the gods needed something that could not fail, they went to his forge. He made it by hand, one piece at a time. I work the same way: one commission on the anvil, from first sketch to launch day.
Templates are cast. Your business isn't.
A template gets you online fast, then makes you look like everyone else who bought it. Your brand gets bent to fit someone else's layout, and the site drags around parts it never needed. I shape yours around your content, your customers and the job it has to do.
Five disciplines. One forge.
From first mark to launch, the work stays in my hands.
Branding
Wordmarks, type, colour and usage rules that hold together everywhere your name appears.
Web design
Layouts built around your content, with strong type, clear hierarchy and motion that earns its place. No templates.
Web build
Fast, accessible Next.js or static builds. Clean code, performance budgets set and met, deployed to your domain.
Motion design
Scroll sequences, transitions and small interactions that guide the eye. Never decoration for its own sake.
Design systems
Reusable components, tokens and documentation your team can build on without guesswork.
From the anvil.
Art Lessons by KayClient siteA warm, tactile site for a children's art studio, with a slideshow hero, a script marquee and a curtain-reveal close.
Photos by KayClient siteA photographer's portfolio built as her own macOS desktop, and as an iPhone home screen on phones. Albums are folders, and the bin holds the behind-the-scenes shots.
Du Kloof LodgeConceptA concept site for a mountain lodge, restaurant and wedding venue at the foot of the Du Toitskloof Pass, with the river as its thread.Commission. Forge. Handover.
The commission
A short call to define the work. Then a written proposal with the scope, schedule and a fixed price. Approve it and your start date is locked.
Signed proposal · Confirmed start date
The forge
The metal goes in the fire. A private staging link lets you watch it take shape, with recorded video reviews at set checkpoints and one final review before launch. No daily noise.
Private staging link · Video reviews · Launched site
The handover
The code is transferred, the domain configured and deployment access is yours. A round of post-launch refinement is included. After that, keep me on a care plan or run it without me.
Source code · Configured deployment · Post-launch refinement
The smith's oath.
One blade on the anvil.
I take one major commission per cycle. While I forge yours, nothing else gets the fire.
What I forge is yours.
Source code, design files and deployment access. No lock-in and no required credit. Take it anywhere, with anyone.
No one between you and the smith.
You speak directly with me, the person designing and building your site. No account layer, no support queue.
The price is struck once.
The proposal sets it. Any change in scope is agreed and priced in writing before work continues.
Struck once.Built to stay.
Approach the forge.
One commission at a time. Bring the brief: what you're building and what it needs to do.