Small studio. Big standard.
crtzax is deliberately small. Fewer people between the idea and the thing that ships. That is the whole argument.
- Astro / Website Architecture
- React / User Interface
- TypeScript / Frontend Logic
- Tailwind / Styling Framework
- Cloudflare / Backbone
- Shopify / E-Commerce Platform
- Stripe / Payment Processor
- Resend / Email Delivery
- Vite / Website Tooling
Dylan Lambertson
crtzax is one person. That is the whole point.
I design and build every crtzax project myself: the direction, the typography, the motion, and the code that actually ships. Nothing gets handed to a junior team, and nothing gets lost between a designer who cannot build and a developer who was not in the room.
It means I take on fewer projects than an agency would. It also means the person you send a note to at 11pm is the person who wrote the CSS.
I care about the parts most people skip: how a line breaks, how a hover settles, what the site does on a bad connection. That obsession is the product.
- Coding since Covid.
- Small businesses, mostly.
- Owns too many typefaces.
- Role
- Design & Development
- Based
- North Carolina
- Working
- Worldwide - Remote
- Replies
- Within a day or two
Four steps. No theatre.
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Discover
I work out what needs to exist and why. Short, direct, no discovery theatre.
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Direction
I build the visual language and the interaction system before a single page gets designed.
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Create
Design and development run together. You see it working, not just rendered.
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Ship
I test, polish, launch, and stay reachable afterwards.
- Why so small?
- Because every person I add is another layer between the idea and the thing that ships. Small is not a stage I am growing out of. It is the model.
- Who actually does the work?
- The person you talk to. There is no junior team behind the curtain, and no agency I quietly forward the build to.
- What do you refuse to do?
- Template swaps, work I cannot stand behind, and projects where design is expected to arrive after the layout is already decided.
- How fast is fast?
- A focused site is usually four to eight weeks. Anyone quoting a week is selling you a template with your logo on it.
Where I am
North Carolina. Working with people everywhere.
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