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Designers who build.

We started as designers who code. Now we’re designers who build: modern tools, AI where it earns its place, prototypes in days rather than weeks, and delivery that keeps pace with how things are made now. The building happens at Estd, our development arm, which makes every Post site and a good few for other studios.

Post designs. Estd delivers.

Estd is our build-focused development arm: design-sensitive, detail-minded developers who care about delivery and execution. Content models editors understand, front ends that load before you notice, hosting, and the years of looking after a site once it’s live. It builds everything we design, and dovetails with other studios and agencies who need the same.

Sites shipped
165
On Kirby
124
Design partners
24
Since
2013

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A few we’re fond of

  1. Screenshot of Irish Architecture Foundation 2025 · Post Studio Irish Architecture Foundation Designed and built in the studio for Ireland’s architecture organisation: a programme of talks, tours and learning that the team runs themselves on Kirby. Front End · Kirby · Hosting
  2. Screenshot of Pallas Projects 2025 · Post Studio, Other Office Pallas Projects Designed with Other Office, built by Estd. Two decades of an artist-run space’s exhibitions, made into an archive you can actually wander through. Front End · Kirby · Hosting
  3. Screenshot of Natural Sleep 2026 · CI Studio Natural Sleep CI Studio’s design, built as a Shopify shop with Kirby carrying the stories around it. Commerce and editorial without the seams showing. Front End · Shopify · Kirby · Hosting · Ecommerce
  4. Screenshot of NCAD Works 2026 2026 · Post Studio NCAD Works 2026 Our eighth year putting NCAD’s graduate show online. A new design every year, the same deadline every June, hundreds of students’ work live on the night. Front End · Kirby · Hosting
  5. Screenshot of Ande 2026 · Associate Ande Front end for Associate’s design for an AI company. Quiet, quick, and exactly as specced. Front End
  6. Screenshot of 100 Archive 2019 · Post Studio 100 Archive The front end for Ireland’s archive of design and visual communication, built in the studio. Front End

Everything Estd has shipped

165 of 165

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2013–2026
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Nothing matches.

What we build, and how

  1. 01

    Sites people can run themselves.

    Content-managed sites on Kirby, the flat-file CMS we build almost everything on, with the editing set up around how your team actually works. Migrations from WordPress and older systems, with every old link redirected so nothing breaks.

    • Kirby
    • content modelling
    • migrations
    • redirects
  2. 02

    Fast and accessible, on purpose.

    Lean front ends, images resized on the fly, motion that switches off for anyone who asks it to, and builds that exceed accessibility standards. Bilingual where it matters — Irish and English for Ireland 2016 and This Is Art!.

    • performance
    • accessibility
    • bilingual
  3. 03

    Type that moves.

    Variable fonts, custom faces and type tools in the browser — from the tester on our studio page to a browser-based animation tool specced for Signal Type Foundry.

    • variable fonts
    • web type
    • motion
  4. 04

    Tools, not just pages.

    A national submission platform for This Is Art!, a custom web tool for Entangled Life, twenty years of archive for Pallas Projects — and the timelines, task boards and capacity planners that run our own studio.

    • platforms
    • web apps
    • internal tools
  5. 05

    AI, with a person attached.

    We use AI where it earns its keep: drafting image descriptions an editor then checks, moving content between systems, clearing the admin that eats a studio’s week, and getting prototypes in front of people in days rather than weeks. Never as the idea itself.

    • AI-assisted accessibility
    • content migration
    • automation
    • prototyping
  6. 06

    Looked after.

    Hosting, updates, analytics and search, for as long as the site is live. Some clients have been with us since their first launch.

    • hosting
    • maintenance
    • SEO

For studios & agencies

Your studio’s development partner.

You bring the design and the client; Estd brings the build, the CMS and the hosting, and keeps things running after launch. CI Studio, Templo, Other Office, Signal and twenty-odd others already work this way.

  • Front end, built from your Figma
  • Kirby or Shopify, set up around your client’s editors
  • Hosting, updates and care after launch

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Things we’ve built that aren’t websites

  • This Is Art! submissionsA national entry platform for a young people’s art competition with RTÉ and Creative Ireland.
  • Entangled Life web toolA custom tool for Pallas Projects’ eight-month programme on climate and ecology.
  • Reckham motion toolA browser-based animation tool specced for a Signal Type Foundry variable typeface.
  • Studio timelineOur own long-range project timeline: shared, live, editable by the team.
  • Task boardA private task app that syncs with our Notion projects.
  • Type testerThe sliders on our studio page. Have a go.

This page, right now

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Built with
Kirby, Alpine.js, Swup and esbuild. No page builder.
Set in
Post Sans, our house typeface, from Thin to Bold. One typeface, all the way down.
Images
Resized on request, lazy-loaded, and described with alt text drafted by AI and checked by a person.
Motion
Turns itself down if your device asks for reduced motion.