The studio
Dawn Labs is a design and development studio working with creative houses, founders and institutions — in Abidjan, across West Africa, and anywhere the work is interesting. We design and build the whole thing: the brand, the interface, and the code that ships it.
One team, start to finish
Most projects pass through a designer, then a separate developer, and lose something at each handover. We do both. The person choosing the typeface is the person writing the CSS, which means the site that ships is the site that was designed — not an approximation of it.
Built to be fast
Every site we build is a production Next.js application: server-rendered, image-optimised, and deployed on a global edge network. Speed is not a phase at the end of the project, it is a constraint we design inside from the first day.
Made to grow
We hand over a design system, not a set of pages — documented type scales, colour tokens and components — so your team can add to the site for years without it drifting away from the brand.
What we do
- Brand identity
- Logotype, typography, colour and the rules that hold them together, delivered as a system you can actually use.
- Web design
- Art direction and interface design for marketing sites, portfolios and online boutiques — designed for the phone as seriously as the desktop.
- Development
- Production builds in Next.js and TypeScript: e-commerce, content-driven sites, animation and 3D when the story calls for it.
- Care and evolution
- We stay on after launch — new sections, new collections, performance and SEO work as the business changes.
Start a project
Tell us what you are building and we will come back to you with how we would approach it.
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