Craftpine is a small website design studio in Manchester. We hand-build considered, fast, original websites for small businesses, independent brands and tradespeople across the North West.
A website should feel like a well-made room. Quiet. Intentional. Easy to be in.
We build small. We design slowly. We choose typography over trend, and structure over decoration.
We design and build websites end-to-end — from the first sketch to the working server. No templates. No page builders. Each site is hand-built around the brand it carries.
For studios, makers, and product companies finding their voice.
For photographers, designers, architects, and writers.
Small catalogues, treated like the products they sell.
Magazines, essays, and projects that reward reading.
Each project finds its own form. Below, a few of the surfaces we return to — typography, grid, code, light.
Hand-set, generous, paragraph-first.
Hand-built. No frameworks unless they earn their place.
Design and code in the same room, by the same hands.
Restraint over surprise. One accent, used well.
A long first call — about the work, the audience, and what you're trying to say. No brief template; we find the shape together.
Two or three written directions before any pixels move. Type, palette, photography, voice. Decisions made on paper.
We design and code in the same room. Every page hand-built, every detail considered. No templates, no page builders.
We host, monitor, and refresh the site for as long as you'd like. A site is a living thing.
We take on a small number of projects each quarter. A short note about the work — what it is, who it's for, when you'd like to launch — is the best way to start.
