An independent digital studio in Randburg, Johannesburg. We make custom websites, brand systems and marketing tools for South African and international clients, on WordPress, WooCommerce and hand-coded static. Twelve years in, a small studio, in partnership with Creative Valkyrie in Cape Town.
A two-person studio: Lee on design, build, SEO and paid, with Tiffany Barrett at Creative Valkyrie on brand and illustration.
Six things the studio does. Every project is scoped and quoted after a short brief call, so you always see the number before we start.
Clean, mobile-first custom websites, WordPress or hand-coded static, that reflect your brand, load fast and rank. Boutique 6-10 page builds through to complex marketing sites.
Website designWooCommerce and custom-checkout stores, small boutique catalogues through to multi-vendor marketplaces and multi-warehouse split shipping. Payment processors integrated.
EcommerceRank higher on Google, get more visits that actually convert. Technical SEO, on-page content, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads and honest monthly reporting.
SEO & paidWeekly patching, daily backups, uptime monitoring, security scans, Core Web Vitals tracking and small content edits, monthly.
MaintenanceContent, posts and strategy built to get you noticed. LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok, organic, ads-integrated, or fully outsourced monthly management.
Social mediaShow up at the top of Google and Meta feeds fast. Full Google Ads and Meta Ads setup and management, simple targeting, honest attribution, weekly optimisation.
Paid advertising (PPC)Recent projects across finance, retail, hospitality and non-profit. Open any card for the full case study.
The practical detail: where we are, who does the work, how projects run and what you get at the end.
Start a projectRandburg, Johannesburg. About fifteen minutes from Sandton, twenty-five from Midrand and forty from Centurion depending on traffic.
Lee on design, build, SEO and paid. Tiffany Barrett at Creative Valkyrie for brand and illustration. Direct with the team doing the work.
Shared Notion workspace, weekly video demos, WhatsApp for quick things. Meetings when they add something. Timelines dated in the kickoff brief.
Full source code, credentials, hosting access, documentation. Your domain, your site, your control, no lock-in, no plugin subscriptions we hold hostage.
Five steps, dated in the kickoff brief and delivered by our team. A straight line from first call to launched site.
A proper conversation about your business, audience and goals. We map your site structure and user journey, simple and effective.
You bring the content or we help write it. We agree the visual direction, bold, calm, editorial, whatever fits the brand.
Full visual mock-up of home and key pages. You see exactly how the site will look before a line of code gets written.
Site built in WordPress, hand-coded static or WooCommerce depending on the need. Tested on every major device and SEO-checked.
Site goes live. Full credentials and source handed over. Optional care plan for ongoing updates. We're here after launch, too.
Every website Ikonik Studio builds is quoted after a short brief call. We scope your project properly, understand what you actually need, and come back with a fixed number and a plan, no hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
Boutique static sites typically ship in 4-6 weeks. Larger WordPress or custom builds run 8-12 weeks depending on scope. Ecommerce and multi-language builds are 10-16 weeks. Every timeline is agreed and dated in your kickoff brief.
Yes, most of our clients are outside Johannesburg. Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Stellenbosch, Plettenberg Bay plus international clients across the UK and EU. Everything's remote-friendly on a shared workspace with weekly demos.
Every site is mobile-first, designed on mobile before desktop, tested across every major device, and shipped with Core Web Vitals scores that Google Search Console won't flag. Mobile is default, not an afterthought.
Yes. Every website ships with SEO fundamentals baked in, semantic HTML, schema markup, sitemap, Google Search Console setup. Hosting is set up on trusted providers. Ongoing SEO and hosting management available as retainers.
Yes. Monthly care plans covering updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security scans and content edits, scaling up to include WooCommerce monitoring, integrations and expert on-call support. Month-to-month, no lock-in.
Yes. Every project ships with full source code, credentials, documentation and hosting access transferred to you. Your domain, your site, your control, no lock-in, no hostage tactics.
Yes. Registered nonprofits, PBOs and Section 21 companies get preferential terms, just share your PBO or NPO registration number and we'll take it from there.
Send a short brief: what you are making, when it needs to launch and roughly what you are working with. We reply the same day.
