I work with small Maltese businesses that have outgrown a Facebook page. Identity, website and the templates to keep posting — hand-coded, mobile-first, and live in weeks rather than quarters. Taking two projects at a time.
Five projects that show both halves of what I do — the identity, and the thing it ships inside.
I run the marketing for this print and copy shop. It started with the identity — navy, gold and a torn-paper motif taken straight off the product — and it didn’t stop there. I plan the content month by month, write the captions and make the artwork, so the posts go out on time without anyone behind the counter having to think of something to say.
The second brand I post for, and deliberately nothing like the first. Coral and rose on navy, generous white space, photography over graphics. Same hand, opposite voice — which is the point: a house style should belong to the client, not to me. Calendar, captions and campaign artwork, every month.
My own publication. I take a real Maltese business’s website or socials apart in public, show what’s costing them customers, and redesign it. Built and deployed by me — the writing is the portfolio.
torndown.netlify.appA React + Vite front end on a small Node and SQLite API, written to learn the parts of the stack a designer usually hands off. Auth, real persistence, and a streak calculation that survives timezones.
A fine-dining site for a Valletta restaurant that doesn’t exist — built to work out what a Maltese restaurant actually needs online. The menu is real text rather than a photo of a menu: four tabbed courses, every dish opening to its ingredients, and a reservation form. Gold on near-black, one serif, no framework.
dar-il-bahar.netlify.appI take on a small number of projects so each one gets the whole week, not a slice of it. Tell me what you’re working with and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right person for it.
Start a project
Design that stops
at the .pdf
isn’t finished.
Logo, palette, type and the rules for using them — delivered as files your printer, your sign maker and whoever runs your Instagram can all open without calling me first.
Small marketing sites written by hand, not assembled in a page builder. Your menu, your hours and your prices in text a search engine can read — not trapped inside a photo album.
I already do this every month for two Maltese businesses. Either I plan, write and design your content on a retainer, or I build the templates and the calendar and hand you the keys — depending on how much of it you actually want to touch.
Booking forms, dashboards, small tools. React on the front, a small Node API and SQLite behind it. I’ll tell you plainly when something is past what one person should build.
Twenty minutes on the phone, then a one-page proposal with a fixed price, a date and exactly what you get. You sign it or you walk away — no follow-up sequence either way.
You see a real link, not a slideshow. It goes up early and changes in front of you, with a check-in twice a week. Two rounds of proper revisions are part of the price.
Your domain, your files, your logins — transferred, not rented. I stay on for thirty days to fix anything that drifts, and I’ll show you how to change the text yourself.
Valletta · 2026
I’m a designer in Malta running a studio of one. I started on the brand side — identities, print, social for local businesses — and got tired of handing a beautiful PDF to someone who then had it rebuilt badly by somebody else.
So I learned to build. Now the same person who picks the colours writes the HTML, which means nothing gets lost in the translation and there’s exactly one person to call when something breaks.
I write about this in the open at Torn·Down, where I take real Maltese businesses’ marketing apart and rebuild it. It’s the clearest picture of how I think you’ll find anywhere.
No templates. If two of my clients can spot the same layout, I’ve done it wrong.
On originality
You own the domain, the repository and every login. I rent you nothing.
On ownership
Copy first, colour second. Nobody ever left because the blue was wrong.
On priorities
Designed on a phone at 390px, then scaled up. That’s where your customers are.
On mobile
Fast on 4G in Gozo, not just on my laptop on fibre.
On performance
Your menu belongs in text a search engine can read, not inside a JPEG.
On being found
One person, start to finish. No account manager between you and the work.
On the studio
If you can’t change the opening hours yourself, I built it badly.
On handover
A fixed price and a date, agreed before I start. Scope changes are a conversation, not an invoice.
On money
I’ll tell you when you don’t need a new website. It happens more than you’d think.
On honesty
I pull a real Maltese business’s marketing apart, show what it’s costing them, and rebuild it. Nothing hypothetical.
Rexy’s menu design is clean, branded and well laid out — but it only exists as a JPEG in a Facebook album, invisible to Google and impossible to text a friend.
Rexy Restaurant · Għajnsielem, GozoNew teardowns go up as they’re finished. If your business is the one you’re worried I’ll pick — get in touch first and I’ll fix it quietly instead.
Beat me to it →If yours isn’t here, email me. I answer these properly, not with a brochure.
It depends on how many pages and how much of the copy and photography already exists. You get a fixed number after a twenty-minute call — one price, in writing, before anything starts. No hourly surprises.
I don’t build new sites on them. I write the HTML and CSS by hand, which is why the pages load quickly and don’t break when a plugin updates. If you’re already on WordPress and it’s working, I’ll say so rather than sell you a migration.
Yes, both happen regularly. Brand-only comes with files any developer can build from. Site-only works best if you already have a logo and palette you’re happy with — if you’re not, we should talk about that first.
You do. The domain is registered in your name, the code is handed over in full, and every login is transferred to you. Nothing is held hostage to keep you paying a monthly fee.
Thirty days of fixes are included — anything broken, wrong or drifting gets sorted at no extra cost. After that you can either edit the text yourself (I’ll show you how) or send me small jobs as they come up.
I keep two project slots open per quarter so nothing gets rushed. Send the form and I’ll tell you honestly what the next start date is — including if that means recommending someone else.
A twenty-minute call, a straight answer, and a fixed price if it’s a fit. If it isn’t, I’ll say that too.