Websites that look the way your work feels.
Custom sites for artists, studios and creative businesses who have outgrown a template. Designed in Chicago, built for the way your clients actually find you.
Now booking a limited number of founding clients at introductory rates.
- Bridal Beauty
- Hair & Makeup
- Photography
- Planning
- Floral
- Salons
- Med Spa & Wellness
You have built something beautiful. The website has not caught up.
Most of the people we work with are excellent at what they do and quietly embarrassed by the site they send people to. Usually it was built fast, years ago, on a platform that fought them the whole way.
Your Instagram outperforms your website
Your feed looks expensive. The site people land on afterward does not match it.
Inquiries arrive half-formed
You are answering the same five questions over email because the site never answered them.
You are attracting the wrong budget
A site that reads as inexpensive brings you clients who expect to pay accordingly.
You have avoided touching it for a year
The platform is confusing, the login is lost, and updating one photo takes an afternoon.
Glam Atelier
Chicago's leading luxury bridal hair and makeup house. Moved off a drag-and-drop template onto a custom editorial site built around their brand guidelines, with a proper inquiry funnel feeding their booking process.
Two ways to work together.
Every project includes the design, the build, the launch and the handoff. You own everything at the end.
The One Page
For solo artists & new businesses
- Custom single-page design, up to eight sections
- Copy shaped from your words
- Inquiry form delivered to your inbox
- Gallery or portfolio section
- Mobile and tablet optimization
- Domain and hosting setup
- One round of revisions
The Full Site
For established studios & teams
- Custom multi-page design, up to six pages
- Services, pricing, portfolio and FAQ structure
- Inquiry form and booking integration
- Redirects from your old site so search rankings hold
- Search setup, analytics and Google Business Profile
- Domain, hosting and email guidance
- Two rounds of revisions
- Walkthrough so you can make small edits yourself
Available as add-ons: full copywriting, additional pages, branding photography referrals, logo and colour direction, ongoing maintenance, seasonal updates.
Four steps, start to live.
Inquiry
You fill out the form below. We reply within one business day with next steps, or a straight answer if we are not the right fit.
Consultation
A call to understand the business, the client you want, and what the site has to do. You leave with a written proposal and a timeline.
Design & build
You send assets, we send a first draft. We refine it together. Nothing goes live until you are happy with it.
Launch & handoff
Domain connected, redirects in place, search set up. You get the logins, the files and a walkthrough.
We have been on your side of this.
Donovan Studio came out of rebuilding Glam Atelier's own website. We are not an agency. We are a business in your industry that got tired of the site it was sending people to, and fixed it properly.
Klaudia Donovan
Design & brand direction
Klaudia founded and runs Glam Atelier, a luxury bridal hair and makeup house in Chicago. She has spent years on your side of this exact problem: writing the inquiry replies, watching where enquiries go cold, and paying for a website that was not pulling its weight. She handles how a site looks and what it says.
James Donovan
Build & operations
James handles the operational side: domains, hosting, the inquiry form, timelines and the launch checklist. He is the reason projects stay on schedule, and the one who makes sure nothing goes dark on launch day.
- Owner-runA business in your industry, not an agency
- ChicagoBased, working everywhere
- TwoPeople, one point of contact
Before you inquire.
How long does a project take?
A one-page site is usually two to three weeks. A full site is four to six. The single biggest factor is how quickly you send photos, copy and feedback. Projects that stall are almost always waiting on content.
Do I have to write the copy?
No. You can write it, or we can write it from a questionnaire and a conversation. If you already have copy from your current site, proposals or Instagram, we can shape that rather than starting over.
Can I update the site myself afterward?
Yes, and you get real help doing it. At handoff you receive a written guide covering how to swap a photo, change wording and put the updated site live, plus a walkthrough call where we do each of those once together. Most people find the photo swap takes about a minute after that. If you would rather never touch it, ongoing updates are available instead.
Who owns the site and the accounts when we are done?
You do, all of it. The domain stays in your name, the hosting account is yours, and you get every file. Nothing is locked to us, and you are not renting your own website. If you ever want to move to another designer, you can hand them the folder and go.
What happens to my current site and my Google ranking?
Nothing goes dark. We map your existing pages and set redirects so the traffic and rankings you have already earned carry over to the new site.
Do you build online stores?
Not at the moment. This is for service businesses. If you sell physical products, we are happy to point you somewhere better suited.
What does it cost?
It depends on the number of pages and how much writing is involved. We share pricing on the consultation call once we understand the scope, and it is fixed for the project rather than hourly. A limited number of founding client spots are open at introductory rates.
Tell us about your business.
A few questions so the first call is useful. It takes about three minutes. We reply within one business day.