Studio Illicit

Based at Foundry 17 on Fore Street in Exeter, Devon, Studio Illicit is a small web design studio operating under Illicit Production Ltd. With a team of between one and ten people, the studio works across sectors including retail and lifestyle, tech and culture, and the built environment, taking on projects for businesses seeking bespoke websites and digital platforms rather than off-the-shelf builds. The studio's service list covers website design, ecommerce development, custom web platforms, digital marketing, branding and identity, content creation, web hosting, and agentic workflows, alongside the declared specialisms of SEO, graphic design and e-commerce development. Client engagement typically begins with a web audit or discovery call, through which the studio assesses a business's existing digital presence before proposing work. Its stated focus is on building sites designed for speed, search visibility and long-term growth, suggesting technical performance and findability are treated as core considerations alongside visual design. The breadth of services—from branding and graphic design through to custom platform development and hosting—indicates the studio positions itself to handle a project from initial identity work through to the ongoing technical upkeep of a client's website, rather than specialising in a single narrow discipline.