—— The studio
Making the internet a little prettier. We're a two-person creative studio — one brand half, one build half — working with founders who'd rather look like themselves than like everyone else.
Celavie comes from c'est la vie — that's life. Colourful, unpredictable, imperfect, exciting. Nothing about real life looks like a template, and we never understood why brands were supposed to.
So that's the whole idea. Pretty enough to catch attention. Smart enough to have a purpose. Personal enough to be remembered. Pretty is easy — plenty of studios can make something pretty. Pretty with a reason behind every decision is the part that takes two people who actually talk to each other.
The studio
Co-founder, Creative Head
Diya runs the half of Celavie people feel before they can explain — the voice, the visual world, the way a feed suddenly looks like it belongs to someone. She works from strategy first and decoration last.
See the work ↗
Co-founder, Web & Development
Shubh builds the half you can measure — sites that load fast, animate at sixty frames, and hold up on a three-year-old phone. He treats performance as a design constraint, not a cleanup task.
See the work ↗Before anything is designed, we work out what it's for.
Taste isn't decoration. It's the reason people trust you in eight seconds.
Fast, accessible, and still standing in two years.
The best work still needs someone to explain why it matters.
You talk to the people doing the work. Every time.
No handoff between a designer and a developer who've never met.
Seven days brief to live, when the brief is clear.
Sixty frames on real phones, not just a demo laptop.
Including our own. You're paying for judgement.
If it could be anyone's brand, it isn't yours.
*probably the most attentive studio you've never heard of.
It depends on scope, so we quote per project rather than publishing packages. Tell us what you need and you'll get a number, in writing, before anything starts.
Loved by dreamers & doers
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