Beat 01 · Ideation
The big picture, first.
We start loose — thumbnails, scribbles and a low-fi skeleton of the whole site. The shape of the thing gets decided long before anything precious does.
Design & Web Studio · Est. 2019
Websites,
drawn by hand.
Seastack is a five-person design & web studio in Malé, Maldives. We sketch, build and ship digital work with the patience of a drafting table — every line considered, nothing mass-produced.
not typed ↘ ↑ every idea
begins as a line
§ 01 — Marginalia
drawn, not
mass-produced
Most of the web is printed by the reamdrafted one at a time — identical, disposable, gone by the next scroll. We work the other way: slower, drawn, specific. Five people on a small island, treating every site like a page in a sketchbook — revised until it's right, and signed when it ships.
— the five of Seastack
In the studio — how a Seastack site gets drawn
§ 03 — In the studio
How a Seastack
site gets drawn.
Beat 02 · Wireframes
Down to the component.
Nav, hero, cards, forms — each drawn precisely, with dimension lines and notes. Every block gets measured before it ever gets styled.
Beat 03 · Iterate
We bin what doesn't work.
Drafts get crumpled and tossed. Good work is mostly editing — we scrap fast, without ego, and the next pass always comes back sharper.
Beat 04 · Build
From lines to live code.
Wireframes become real, typed components — the hand-drawn brackets giving way to actual code, running in the editor in front of you.
Beat 05 · Ship
The rough becomes real.
The sketch resolves into the finished, full-colour product — crisp, fast and ready for the world. Same idea, now shipped.
01 / Ideation right: watch it drawn ✎
§ 02 — Selected work
Brands we've helped rise.
a few pages
from the portfolio
- 01 Atollary
- 02 Tidewell
- 03 Reeflab
- 04 Kanduu
- 05 Nova Atoll
- 06 Saltgrid
- 07 Hiyala
- 08 Bluemarch
- 09 Farukoe
- 10 Thila&Co
- 11 Vaali
- 12 Mooncup
shipped & live — placeholder names shown; real project pages swap straight in.
§ 04 — The studio
Five people. One sketchbook.
Small on purpose. Seastack is a tight crew of five — no account managers, no hand-offs. You work directly with the people who sketch, design and build your site.
- since ’19
- since ’20
- since ’20
- since ’21
- since ’22
psst — seat six?
We grow slowly and deliberately. If you sketch, design or build with real care, leave a line.
Say hello
§ 05 — Start a page
Let's sketch
something together.
Tell us what you're building. We reply to every note by hand — usually within a day.
hello@seastack.mv ↖ draw us a line