Brooklyn web design has a character of its own. The borough is home to some of the most respected identity and digital studios in New York, and most of them sit within a short walk of each other in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Gowanus, DUMBO and Industry City. Many started in converted warehouses and still work there, close to the museums, film companies, nonprofits and consumer brands that make up much of their client base.
That concentration makes choosing harder, not easier. A search for web design Brooklyn returns a mix of genuine studios, national agencies running a “Brooklyn” landing page from somewhere else, and directories full of firms that moved away years ago. For this list, every studio was checked against its own website. Each one is based in Brooklyn, and each one designs and builds websites as a core service rather than as an add-on to advertising or branding.
The range is wide. Some of these studios build identity systems first and carry them through to the site. Others are hands-on builders who live in WordPress or Shopify. One is now part of a global consultancy. Read the descriptions with your own project in mind, then use the questions in the How To Choose section to narrow the shortlist.
Brooklyn Web Design Studios At A Glance
Studio
Brooklyn Base
Best For
Web Focus
View Source
Brooklyn
DTC and consumer brands
Brand, Shopify storefronts and content production
Athletics
Williamsburg
Tech brands and cultural institutions
Identity systems, sites and brand tools
ORDER
Greenpoint
Companies that need a new identity and site together
Identity-led websites
CHIPS
Williamsburg
Arts, film and cultural organizations
Design and development in-house
Isometric Studio
Williamsburg
Museums, universities and spatial projects
Website and app design
Partner & Partners
Gowanus
Nonprofits, media and advocacy groups
Identity and website design and development
Work & Co
DUMBO
Global brands building digital products
Product design and engineering
Compression Studios
Gowanus
Financial, institutional and faith organizations
Brand and website programs
Transfuture
DUMBO
Education, cultural and engineering clients
WordPress, accessibility, AI search
Lúgh Studio
Industry City
Nonprofits and real estate
Web design, Google Ad Grants, growth
Buzzworthy Studio
DUMBO
Ecommerce and service brands
Shopify and custom builds
Bushwick Design
Williamsburg
Climate, nonprofit and DTC brands
WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify
KRS Creative
Brooklyn
Startups and nonprofits on WordPress
WordPress and Figma UX/UI
Best Brooklyn Web Design Studios For 2026
1. View Source — Brand, Storefront And Content From One Brooklyn Team
View Source is a Brooklyn design and technology studio that describes its work as harnessing ideas, aesthetics and code to realize a client’s vision. That phrase is a fair summary of why it leads this list: the studio designs the brand, builds the website and produces the content that fills it, so nothing is lost in a handoff between separate vendors.
On the web side, View Source has been a Shopify partner since August 2015 and holds Premier tier status. Its portfolio includes Bandit Running, ASICS, Pantone, Mitchell & Ness, Edie Parker, Banza, Aura Bora, Compass and the Marianne Boesky Gallery, and its ecommerce experience for chocolate brand Maeve took a 2026 Webby in Food and Drink. The studio also runs Brick Studio, a still-life photography facility in Brooklyn, so product photography, video and 3D content for the site are produced in house.
The team is deliberately senior, with roughly 20 senior staff, more than 140 launches and 62 awards to its name. It suits consumer and DTC brands that want one partner accountable for how the brand looks, how the store performs and how the product is shown, and it is equally capable on editorial and cultural sites.
2. Athletics — Brand Systems That Run Through The Site
Athletics calls itself a brand innovation studio, and the name comes from its first workspace, a boxing gym in Williamsburg. The studio is still in the neighborhood, at 210 N. 6th Street. Its stated aim is to make “beautifully usable identities, sites, and tools,” and digital experiences sit alongside identity as one of its core services rather than as an afterthought.
The work page shows how that plays out. Athletics has delivered website and digital projects for Salesforce, Google Chrome, Google Beam, Zapier, Okta, IBM TechXchange, XQ Institute and NYU, and its wider client list includes MoMA, the New Museum, Nike, Amazon Design, MLS and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. A team of more than 30 people appears on the studio roster, which gives it the depth to run a brand system, a marketing site and the tools that sit around them at the same time.
Athletics suits technology companies and institutions that want the website to behave as part of the brand, not as a separate project handed to a different vendor. It is a premium choice, and it is best engaged when identity and digital are being rethought together.
3. ORDER — Identity-First Websites From Greenpoint
ORDER is a design office founded in 2017 by Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth, two designers well known for reissuing classic graphic standards manuals. The Brooklyn studio is at 212 Franklin Street in Greenpoint and is led by Reed, while Smyth runs a second office in Miami. ORDER describes itself as specializing in brand identity, and its websites grow directly out of that work.
Recent projects tagged as website work include Chapter, AidKit, Plot, REM Decaf, Climate Imperative, Industrious Labs, Maxio, Chatham and Teal. The broader client list includes Herman Miller, MoMA, Google, Apple, Kickstarter, The Frick Collection and Knoll, and the studio’s work has been covered by Fast Company, Communication Arts and It’s Nice That.
Choose ORDER if your company needs a rigorous visual system first and wants the website to express it precisely. Teams looking only for a site build on an existing brand may find a builder-led studio further down this list a closer fit.
4. CHIPS — Arts And Culture Sites, Designed And Coded In-House
CHIPS is a Williamsburg design and development studio at 400 Bedford Avenue, run by partners Dan Shields, Teddy Blanks and Adam Squires. Websites are one of its main portfolio categories, and the studio both designs and builds them, which is less common among culture-focused studios than it should be.
Its website work covers the Rockaway Film Festival, Tandem Press, William Stout Architectural Books, architecture firm Gluck+, the Judd Foundation, the Rubin Museum, Eyebeam and the Calder Foundation, along with interactives for the Brooklyn Museum’s American Art galleries. The studio’s client list also includes MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Met, A24, Netflix and HBO, and CHIPS designs film titles and podcast artwork as well.
CHIPS is a natural fit for museums, foundations, publishers, film companies and artists who want a site with a strong editorial point of view and a team that can maintain the code it writes.
Isometric Studio works from 72 Berry Street in Williamsburg, a block from Bedford Avenue. Founded by Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid, it describes its practice as uniting graphic design and architecture, and website and app design are listed services alongside identity, publications and environmental work.
On the web side, the studio has designed the website for the Johnson Museum of Art and a new website for The Acting Company. Its clients include Cooper Hewitt, The Jewish Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, Princeton University, Columbia Engineering, IKEA and Google. Its spatial projects have been recognized as finalists in the 2019 SEGD awards and the 2020 Times Square Valentine Heart competition.
Isometric is a strong option for institutions whose digital presence needs to connect with physical spaces, such as exhibitions, campuses and wayfinding, and for clients who value a studio that thinks about structure as carefully as surface.
Partner & Partners is a worker-owned design practice founded in 2013 and based at 232 3rd Street in Gowanus. Eight members are listed on its about page, and the studio’s work centers on organizations focused on social and environmental justice.
Website design and development is a regular part of its engagements. Recent projects include identity and website design and development for ARC, an identity refresh and website overhaul for local news outlet Hell Gate, and identity and website design for the Center for the Humanities, the Merwin Conservancy, CUNY CPCP and Radix. The Queens Museum is also among its clients, and the studio has been featured in Fast Company, AIGA Eye on Design and It’s Nice That.
For nonprofits, advocacy groups and independent media that want a design partner whose structure reflects their values, Partner & Partners is one of the clearest fits in the borough.
7. Work & Co — Digital Products At Global Scale, Now Part Of Accenture
Work & Co was founded in 2013 and is headquartered at 231 Front Street in Brooklyn. The studio describes itself as a digital product agency covering the strategy, design and development of new platforms and experiences. Accenture completed its acquisition of Work & Co in January 2024, and the studio now operates as part of that group.
Its client list is among the largest in the borough. Apple, Google and Nike appear on the homepage, and recent projects include the JW Anderson digital redesign, Pfizer’s Health Answers platform and the launch of Celanese’s Chemille. The firm’s strength is complex, high-traffic products where design and engineering have to be planned together from the start.
Work & Co is the right call for large organizations with significant budgets and enterprise requirements. Smaller companies will usually get more senior attention from one of the independent studios on this list.
8. Compression Studios — Institutional-Grade Brand And Web On A Boutique Scale
Compression Studios was founded in 2014 by Steven Newman and is based at 58 Second Avenue in Gowanus. The studio works across brand, digital design, experience design and web development, and its leadership team of Newman, Jen Murray, Dan McGorry and Shannon Roberts is named on its about page.
Recent website work includes a redesign for Temple Emanu-El and a rebrand and new website for private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co., as well as work for Vested. Compression’s client list also includes JP Morgan, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Columbia University, ESPN and CNN, which gives the studio unusual experience with the review processes and compliance demands of financial and institutional clients.
Firms that need polish and discretion without the overhead of a large agency should put Compression on the shortlist.
9. Transfuture — WordPress, Accessibility And AI Search From DUMBO
Transfuture is a DUMBO-based digital studio led by managing partner Joseph Egan, creative director Erin Guthan and solutions architect Jason Tagg. Its services center on WordPress development, web accessibility and AI search readiness, three areas that matter more every year for organizations that answer to boards, funders or public regulators.
Clients include engineering firm STV, the Brooklyn STEAM Center, the Brooklyn Museum and Bard Early College. That mix of education, cultural and professional services work reflects the studio’s emphasis on sites that are compliant, easy for in-house teams to update and structured to be found by both search engines and AI assistants.
Transfuture is a good match for schools, cultural organizations and B2B firms that run on WordPress and need accessibility handled properly rather than patched later.
10. Lúgh Studio — Industry City Veteran For Nonprofits And Real Estate
Lúgh Studio has been in business since 1997 and works from 219 36th Street in Industry City, Sunset Park. Twelve team members are named on its about page, and between them they work in nine languages, which is a real advantage for organizations with international audiences.
The studio offers integrated brand, web and growth programs, including Google Ad Grants management for nonprofits alongside web design, email and video. Its clients include Durst, One World Trade, the WHO Foundation, the American Cancer Society, Compassion International, the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation and 3DR, with named focus areas in nonprofits, real estate, STEM, publishing and ecommerce.
Lúgh suits nonprofits that want one partner to handle the website and the traffic that follows it, and real estate clients who need a long-established local team.
Buzzworthy Studio lists its address at 81 Prospect Street in DUMBO and has been working for more than a decade. Its services span website design, front-end and back-end development, Shopify development and ongoing website support, so clients can stay with the same team after launch.
The studio lists recognition from Awwwards, CSS Design Awards and The FWA, and its clients include WeWork, the Ocean Agency, Selene Aviation, Modern MD and Helias Oils. Its published case studies report results such as a 241 percent increase in traffic and a 396 percent increase in bookings for individual clients.
Ecommerce brands and service businesses that want a visually ambitious site with measurable commercial goals should talk to Buzzworthy.
12. Bushwick Design — Climate And Mission-Driven Sites With Published Pricing
Bushwick Design is a Brooklyn web design and development studio with about ten years in business. It builds custom websites and ecommerce storefronts on WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify, and it says it launched more than 30 projects in 2025.
The portfolio leans toward climate and mission-driven work, including Brooklyn SolarWorks, Farm.One, Carbon Gap and Motorcycle Matcha, and the studio’s named clients include the UNFCCC, the Population Council and the University of Cambridge. One practical detail sets it apart: the site includes a public quote calculator, so prospective clients can see a realistic price range before the first call.
Bushwick Design is a sensible pick for climate startups, research organizations and DTC brands that want a capable builder and transparent budgeting.
13. KRS Creative — Intentionally Small WordPress And Figma Specialist
KRS Creative is a Brooklyn studio run by two co-founders who describe the business as intentionally small, with more than 40 years of combined web experience between them. It specializes in WordPress website design, built with Elementor Pro, and in UX/UI design in Figma.
Its project list includes Hello Robot, Evan Williams Bourbon, the John & Alice Coltrane Home, Hammock Cove Antigua, Bitwise Investments and Collector Systems. That range, from robotics and fintech to hospitality and heritage, shows a studio comfortable moving between sectors while keeping the build on a platform clients can manage themselves.
KRS Creative fits startups and nonprofits that want direct access to the people doing the work and a WordPress site their own team can update.
How To Choose A Brooklyn Web Design Studio
Do You Need A New Brand, Or Just A New Website?
This is the first fork in the road. Studios such as View Source, Athletics, ORDER and Isometric are at their best when identity and website are designed together. If your brand is settled and you mainly need a better site, a builder-led studio like Bushwick Design, Buzzworthy or KRS Creative will usually move faster and cost less. If you need both but in stages, ask the brand studio how it hands over to developers, or whether it builds in-house.
Who Actually Writes The Code?
Some design studios partner with outside developers, while others, such as View Source, CHIPS and Partner & Partners, design and develop in-house. Neither model is wrong, but you should know which you are buying. Ask who will build the site, who will fix it after launch and whether the same people will be on the project from kickoff to handover.
Which Platform Will Your Team Maintain?
The best website is one your team can actually update. WordPress remains the most common choice for nonprofits, schools and content-heavy sites, while Shopify dominates product ecommerce. Ask each studio which platforms it builds on most, request examples on that platform and make sure editing access is planned for the people who will use it every week.
Has The Studio Worked In Your Sector?
Brooklyn studios tend to specialize. Several on this list concentrate on museums and cultural institutions, others on nonprofits and advocacy, others on finance or ecommerce. Sector experience shortens the discovery phase and reduces the risk of a site that looks good but misses how your audience actually behaves. Look for named clients that resemble you, not just big logos.
How Will The Site Handle Accessibility And AI Search?
Accessibility is now a legal and reputational issue as well as a usability one, and a growing share of discovery happens through AI assistants rather than a traditional results page. Ask how the studio tests against WCAG, how it structures content and metadata, and whether it can show past work that holds up on both counts. Pairing the build with a specialist from our list of top SEO agencies in New York can help if search is a major goal.
Does A Brooklyn Address Matter To You?
For many clients, being able to walk into a studio and review work in person is part of the value. Some firms listed online as Brooklyn web design companies are actually based elsewhere and simply target the borough in their marketing. Others use a mailing address while the team works remotely. If in-person collaboration is important, ask where the team sits and plan at least one working session at the studio.
Conclusion
Brooklyn offers an unusually deep bench for web design, from identity studios whose work hangs in museum collections to practical builders who launch dozens of WordPress and Shopify sites a year. The right choice depends less on reputation than on fit: whether you need a brand and a site or just a site, which platform your team will live with, and whether the studio has solved problems like yours before.
Start with two or three studios whose recent clients look like you, ask who will build and maintain the site, and compare proposals on scope rather than headline price. If branding is part of the brief, it is also worth reviewing our guide to the top branding agencies in New York, and for a wider view beyond the borough, see our list of top web designers to hire in 2026.
