Considered work. Start to finish.

I design, build, and write websites for cultural organizations, nonprofits, and small studios — the whole thing, by one person who cares how it reads as much as how it looks.

Studio
Marcelina Knitter — the one person behind Venture Ink
Marcelina Knitter

One person. Whole projects.

I'm Marcelina. Venture Ink is my studio in Colorado, and I do all of it — the design, the build, the words, and the drawings in the margins.

I've lived in Poland, New York, Prague, London, and Miami before landing here. I started out running marketing and design for a cultural institute in New York — exhibitions, concerts, film programmes, visiting artists, and the small crises that come with all of it. Then six years as senior designer and front-end developer at a software company, where I owned the product design, the website, and the brand.

So I know what it's like on your side of the table: a season to announce, a board with opinions, and nobody whose actual job is the website.

Now I build my own iOS apps and take on a small number of client projects a year. I work with cultural organizations, nonprofits, and independent makers — people whose work matters more than their marketing budget suggests it should.

I'm also a mother of two, which is why I keep the project list short and the timelines honest.

How I work

  1. Opinionated

    You're hiring judgment, not hands. I'll tell you what to cut. Constraints make things clearer, and most sites are trying to say six things at once.

  2. Written, not filled in

    Copy is part of the build, not homework I assign you. Most projects stall because nobody has time to write the About page. Not this one.

  3. Made to last

    Fast, accessible, and simple enough that your team can actually update it. No plugin sprawl, no dependency you'll be paying for in three years.

What it costs.

Services

Real numbers, on the page, so you know before you email me.

Website Review

$250

Send me your site and tell me what's frustrating you about it. Within a week you get back a written review: what's working, what's costing you enquiries or donations, what to fix first, and what to ignore. Specific and prioritised, not a generic checklist.

You can hand it to anyone — including a cheaper developer, if that's the right call.

Credited toward a build if we work together within 60 days.

Good for: anyone weighing a rebuild, a first site, or a pile of quotes that don't make sense.

Launch

from $4,500

Four weeks. A complete, live site.

  • Up to 5 pages, designed for your organization specifically
  • Copy written by me — not a template with your name in it
  • Responsive, fast, accessible
  • Contact forms, donation links, event listings, or whatever you actually need
  • Search and social setup
  • Two rounds of revisions
  • 30 days of support after launch

Good for: small organizations that need a real site and need it finished.

Identity + Site

from $8,500

Six to eight weeks. The whole visual and verbal identity, plus the site it lives on.

  • Everything in Launch
  • Wordmark and logo system
  • Color palette, type system, and usage guidelines
  • 8–10 pages
  • Custom graphic elements where they're needed
  • Templates and guidance so it stays consistent after I'm gone

Good for: organizations building something new, or ones whose look stopped matching their work a decade ago.

Care

$250/month

Websites rot. This is the plan that keeps yours from rotting.

  • Updates, backups, security, uptime monitoring
  • Up to 6 content changes a month
  • 48-hour turnaround on anything urgent
  • A short monthly note on what changed and what needs attention

No contract. Cancel whenever.

Selected work.

Five projects. Three of them apps I built and still run, which is the point — I know what it costs to make something and then keep it going.

Work
5 projects shown.
Recent and ongoing.
Previously
  • FrostWire Android · Desktop
  • HapMap Android · iOS
  • Going Out iOS
Contact

Tell me what
you're making.

The projects I like best start with an email that's too long and a bit unsure. Send that one.

If you'd rather start smaller, a Website Review is $250 and tells you what you're actually dealing with before you commit to anything.

Start a project
Location Colorado, USA