Concept and UX
Working out what the thing actually is before anyone draws it. Research, structure, and the argument for why this shape rather than the obvious one.
Commissions · studio·ABAT
The desk is open.
Taking bookings now for work starting after January 2027
Concept, design, build and ship. One person, from the first sketch to the thing running in production. Tell me what you need and I will tell you straight whether I am the right person to make it.
What I take on
Four kinds of work with one throughline. Most commissions touch more than one of them, and the point of hiring one person is that nothing gets lost in the handover between them.
Design and identity
Visual design, brand and design systems. Type, colour and components that still hold up on the fortieth screen, not just the first.
Web build
Sites and front ends, built and deployed. Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript where that is the right answer, which is more often than people expect.
Apps and tooling
Android, Node and self-hosted infrastructure. Internal tools, pipelines, and the quiet things that simply have to keep running.
Below this line the site is still being drawn
How a commission works
Being drawnThe first step works today. The rest is settled in shape but not in wording, so it is not written down yet, and nothing here is a term.
You send a brief
Right now that is an email. There is no form yet, and a few paragraphs in your own words is genuinely enough to start a conversation.
We agree the scope
Gate Not written. Until it is, this step happens in an email thread like any other conversation.
It goes in writing
Gate Blocked on deciding what a commission and a contract actually need to say. This is the reason the rest of the site is a sketch.
I build it
Gate Waiting on step three. How the work is handed over is part of what the contract has to define.
Not built yet
WireframeThree blocks that are planned and empty. They are drawn here rather than hidden, because a page that quietly omits its rates is less honest than one that admits it has not set them.
Selected commissions
A short list of commissioned projects, each shown with the brief that started it.
Gate Nothing goes here until there are commissions that came in through this page. Finished client work is on studioabat.com in the meantime.
Rates and capacity
What the work costs, and how many commissions I can run at once.
Gate No figures published, because none are set. The start date is the one part that is settled: work begins after January 2027. Ask in the email and you will get a straight answer for your specific project.
Terms
Ownership, revisions, cancellation, and what happens when a project changes shape halfway through.
Gate Not written. Nothing on this page is a term or an offer, and anything agreed before it exists gets agreed in writing between us directly.
None of that is required to start.
The unfinished parts above are mine to solve, not yours to wait for. If you have something you want made, the email below works today and it comes straight to me. The work itself starts after January 2027, so the good briefs are the ones that arrive early.