High-end web design, built like fine bourbon: aged expertise, no shortcuts.
High-end web design for businesses that refuse to look ordinary, in Louisville and beyond. Designed, written, photographed, and built by the designer who has been doing this here since 2000.
What premium actually means here.
Custom design, zero templates
No purchased themes dressed up as design. Every layout starts from your brand, your customers, and a blank canvas.
Original photography and video
We shoot your spaces, products, and people ourselves: helicopters, studios, drones, and distillery floors included.
Copy that sounds like you
Every word written for your voice and your buyers, not filler text stretched around stock photos.
Performance that feels expensive
Fast loads, smooth motion, video headers, and parallax depth, tuned so the craft shows on every device.
Built to convert quietly
Premium does not shout. Clear paths, elegant forms, and calls to action that respect your customer.
One craftsman, accountable
You work directly with the designer-developer, not an account manager relaying notes to people you never meet.
In business longer than the big-name shops in town.
Shaun Wilson has designed for Louisville since 2000, before most of today’s top agencies existed, and he helped start one of them. That experience shows in the work: distillery brands, a 160-year-old retailer, law firms, and venues whose websites feel as good as their storefronts. See the Vendome Copper & Brass Works, Kentucky Peerless and Heimerdinger Cutlery case studies.
The photography, the copy, the code and the hosting all come from the same desk, which is why the finished site feels like one thing instead of a hand-off between vendors. See how the web design process works, or the stores we run for heritage brands.
Heritage names, presented properly.
Three long-standing Louisville brands, each with a reputation the website could not be allowed to cheapen. Every screen below is the live site, not a mockup.
The craft, up close
We photograph the work your website sells
None of this is stock. Shaun shot every frame below for Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. - the same client whose website, store, and booking tools he builds and runs. When design and photography come from the same set of hands, your site looks like your business, not a template.
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Designing for Louisville since
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Years of history behind one client brand we present online
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Disciplines in one pair of hands: design, photography, copy, code
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Craftsman from first sketch to launch day
From first meeting to a site that stays premium.
Discovery and direction
We learn your brand, your customers, and what premium means in your market.
Design and photography
Custom layouts and original imagery, shot on-site where your business actually lives.
Build and polish
Hand-built in WordPress with motion, speed, and detail work most shops skip.
Launch and stewardship
We host, protect, and refine it. Your site stays premium long after launch day.
What clients want to know first.
What does a premium website cost?
More than a template, less than you would guess. Scope drives price and you get a straight number up front, not an estimate that grows.
How is this different from a big agency?
You get the principal, not a project manager. One person designs, shoots, writes, and builds, so nothing is lost in translation.
Do you only work with premium brands?
No. We build premium sites for any business that wants to look exceptional: distilleries, law firms, retailers, venues, and trades.
Can you redesign my existing site?
Yes. Most of our premium builds started as tired websites. We keep what works, elevate everything else, and protect your rankings. Read about website redesigns.
RECENT WEB PROJECTS
Premium work, live in production.
Legacy Cooperages: A Kentucky Cooperage Website Built to Land the Barrel Quote
Brand and website for a Kentucky cooperage building bourbon barrels. Nearly every photo on the site…Cru Bear: A 3D Printing Studio Website That Sells the Big Jobs and Keeps the Small Ones
Cru Bear is Shaun Wilson’s own 3D printing business. Its website was designed, built, photographed and…HogMatch: A Custom Show-Pig Marketplace Built in WordPress (Coming Soon)
HogMatch turns a sprawling WordPress prototype into a focused marketplace built around one canonical listing per…
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