Getting brands
off the ground.
Flykite design and build websites, brand identities, and AI-native systems. From the first sketch to the shipped screen.
Jim Turnbull-Walter
Flykite is where ideas become a reality.
The thread across the work: design and technology that holds together, built to last.
The work tends to fall into five shapes. Some clients come for one of them. Most end up with a combination - a brand and a site, a product and an AI layer, an advisory session that turns into a build.
Brand & marketing assets — Wordmarks, identity systems, editorial typography, campaign creative. The work that makes a project look like itself, in a register that can carry. Often the first thing - getting the voice and the visual world right before anything is built on top of it.
Web design & development — Editorial sites, brand sites, custom platforms, content systems. Hand-coded where it matters, with as little JavaScript as the work needs. Built statically where we can, dynamic where we have to. Performance that holds up under real traffic.
Product design & MVPs — UX/UI, prototyping, shipped builds. The aim is the first usable version, fast - then learning from what people actually do with it. Often where a founder discovers what the product really is.
AI systems & office automation — The harness, the folder of tools, the operating layer that runs quietly in the background. Sometimes a copilot inside a product. Sometimes the layer that lets a small team move at the speed of a larger one. Always readable, named clearly, easy to hand off.
Advisory — Half a day to a few, sometimes longer. Strategy on AI, brand, product direction, technical choices. Useful when a team needs a second pair of eyes before committing.
Recent projects.
Hannah TW — Identity and site for an artist & label manager.
Brand and website for Hannah TW — artist and label manager, creative director and consultant, community organiser, programmer.
Galloway Lodge Preserves — Campaign assets for a Scottish preserves maker.
Creative direction across campaign assets for an independent Scottish preserves maker.
What we're learning.
“Ship the idea that fits. Listen. Then iterate until it sticks.”
Tell us what you're making