Hello, Friend! 👋 We are Hand Design, a team of two cryptids (@harleygin.bsky.social & @cbrails.bsky.social) who specialize in design & dev in the fandom / creative (animation, comics, games, & film) industry. ⟡ Website: hand-designed.com ⟡ Contact: hand-designed.com/contact/

If you run a video game studio and would love a delightful design for your company's website consider reaching out to us at @hand-designed.com: ✦ hand-designed.com Starting at: $2.5K • Availability start in late March • We offer various payment options & try our best to work with folks' budget. 💜

I highly recommend @hand-designed.com if you have a webcomic and want to host it on your own personal website.

Client Logo Reveal: The Moonies Club 🌙 Website coming soon~! We have branding openings starting in May: hand-designed.com

Three of the latest @hand-designed.com clients asked for a Y2K aesthetic look. I can show one right, but another is being built out right now & the other is in design phase Girltaku asked for a girly pop, Y2K & got it all, including a scrolling marquee, chunky UI, and gradients galore girltaku.com

Working on the @yattatachi.com redesign and made a few important badges to have in our footer Thinking about offering this to all @hand-designed.com clients (new & old)

Also to add that any website done by Hand Design is 100% coded and designed by two humans (me & my fiancé) and we are strongly against the use of AI in any capacity in our clients' projects. It's part of the meaning behind the studio's name! Hand(made) + Design.

Every so often I like to revisit sites I've designed and the one I did for @vnstudioelan.com is STILL one of my top favorites We aimed for soft motifs of yuri elements and the whimsy, calm feeling of a flower garden with big arched windows. vnstudioelan.com

Spinning a lot of plates right now for @hand-designed.com! Finishing up a website design & logo for one client that I’m hoping to share very soon Starting another client website redesign next week (for someone many of y’all know) Working on another cover design for Manga Mavericks

🎉 SITE LAUNCH: Calcopia Nathan and his team retired their site, Popzara, and wanted to launch a brand-new site, Calcopia. Inspired by tech sites and new age, modern aesthetics. calcopia.com

If you know anyone who's hiring a front-end web developer remotely, please share Chris' info with them! His current place is giving off bad vibes, so he is looking for opportunities. He's the other half to @hand-designed.com so y'all seen his work! cabrailsford.com

We're back online!!! j-entranslations.com BIG big big thank you to @hand-designed.com for taking over hosting and getting me set back up again.

Reading the QA proofs for AH Magazine and I'm just stunned. @harleygin.bsky.social did amazing work on this, and it's been a pleasure working with her on the project. As I've said, and will keep saying, hire her and Chris. @hand-designed.com

Hey, babe! Wake up! @hand-designed.com just launched a new client site! 💚 (FYI we have availability starting early 2026!)

I know nothing about website building and @hand-designed.com was incredibly hands on in explaining and guiding us ON TOP OF building everything for the site highly recommend hiring them for designing your website!!!

🎉 New Site Launch! We had the absolute honor of redesigning @jellybox.bsky.social's website! It was so much fun working on this project and the team is such a delight! 💚

THANK YOU to @hand-designed.com for building our gorgeous new site!!!

Working with @hand-designed.com was the most amazing experience. They really listened, and understood what I wanted, then exceeded my expectations.

Introducing the new Yuricon! Built and designed magnificently by @hand-designed.com, this new look celebrates 25 years of Yuricon! Thank you to all of our patrons and supporters, you made this possible. www.yuricon.com

Are you going to Anime NYC and would like to meet up to chat business about @yattatachi.com & @hand-designed.com? Hit me up in the DMs! 💖 I'll be sending out a scheduler closer to the con!

If you're like "I don't know if I can afford you", we have a sliding scale and offer payment options to small business and creators. We try to our best to work with everyone's budget if possible. It's just me and my fiancé who want to help out the fandom community, not a giant agency.

🚀 SITE LAUNCH - GIRLTAKU @hand-designed.com designed a highly saturated, maximalist, throwback to 90's website style custom WP theme with all the bells & whistles! Drawing inspiration from old Nick shows websites, @yattatachi.com's aesthetic, & neubrutalism. Visit the site: girltaku.com

It's true! We are currently working on redesigning Yuricon!

If you have been wanting to work with @hand-designed.com on a website or branding project AND you want it to be done in time for the upcoming convention season (May - Nov), definitely make plans to reach out at least 5 months in advance (July-Feb) depending on what con you're aiming for.

🚀 Site Launch! We ( @hand-designed.com ) worked with Alexandra to design a Celtic, cottagecore translation portfolio site for her! 🧚 Vibes: Whimsical, Celtic, Fairies, Cottagecore, Feminine 🌱 Colors: soft pinks & greens 📚 Site: aoburns.com

In case you missed it, @cbrails.bsky.social and I redesigned @vnstudioelan.com's website! 💜 Check it out: vnstudioelan.com

Our website just got a major overhaul, thanks to @hand-designed.com! ✨ Check out our new look: vnstudioelan.com

🚀 Site Launch - Studio Élan ( @vnstudioelan.com ) We had the absolute pleasure of redesigning this amazing yuri visual novel studio's website. Instead of a nondescript theme, we aimed for a theme of soft purples, pinks, & mint with motifs of Studio Élan's white lily. 💜 vnstudioelan.com #gamedev

🚀 Site Launch - Imagined Worlds Writing Services We worked with @imaginedworlds.bsky.social to design & development them a custom portfolio site! The overall design aesthetic pulled from classic space sci-fi with a flair of whimsy and wonder. Check it out: imaginedworldswriting.com

Yay! We get to talk about this! We had the honor of working with @animenewsnetwork.com to make a custom gift guide template for them! ✨

Hey webcomic folks! What’s some of the issues y’all have been dealing with when it comes to the available CMS themes? What do you wish they had? What do you dislike? Would love to hear what y’all have to say!

Hey webcomic folks! What’s some of the issues y’all have been dealing with when it comes to the available CMS themes? What do you wish they had? What do you dislike? Would love to hear what y’all have to say!

People wrote about the murder mystery that @cbrails.bsky.social worked on for Constructed Adventures! I designed a fake contract & child obituary while Chris built a fake restaurant & email portal for guests to find out the connect of the hit and run. people.com/neil-patrick...

My darling partner @cbrails.bsky.social has officially joined! Give him a follow! He’s a goofy, good hearted guy who love to help folks. He’s the other co-founder of @handdesignco.bsky.social. Also the guy that coded the Mob Psycho 100 Spirits & Such site w/ designs by @jacquelantern.bsky.social!

If you want a special way to thank your Patreon folks, consider reaching out to us to make you a custom thank-you page! It's automated and pulls info directly from the Patreon API! Examples of ones we've done: www.animeherald.com/patreon-supp... yattatachi.com/patreon-than...

A reminder that @handdesignco.bsky.social has spots available for folks who are needing a website, brand/logo work, general graphic design, and/or someone just to look over your site. It's a small web/design agency run by me and my partner @cbrails.bsky.social. hand-designed.com

We helped Patricia migrate her webcomics from Squarespace over to WordPress! Lots of quality of life that came from it! Patricia is an absolutely delightful client and does great work! ✨ If you need web design/development done, let’s have a chat: hand-designed.com

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Thank you everyone for sharing this! I and my partner @cbrails.bsky.social are available for general work via @handdesignco.bsky.social (web, dev, design) so if there's something you think we can do, reach out and we can happily chat with you about it! hand-designed.com

You can flip a switch that makes Bluesky prompt you to add ALT text to your images! It's the first item under Accessibility in your Settings.

@handdesignco.bsky.social did the new Anime Herald, and I couldn't be more thrilled with their work. Hire them if you need a website.

Hey y’all who are joining! We’re trying to make this place as inclusive & accessible as possible so please use ALT text on your images! Beginner advice to help is to pretend like you’re describing the image to someone on the phone. The more descriptive the better especially if it has information!

I’m doing research for a personal project and need help! Could y’all share with me your favorite designed Japanese anime / game series site? The more creative / outside the box the better! For example: touken-kai.jp

✨ Site Launch! We had the honor of working with @breelundberg.com to design & build them an adorable & fun portfolio site! We’ve been big fans of Bree’s work and had such a great time working with them! 💖 Check it out: portfolio.breelundberg.com

If y’all ever see if anyone needing a website, please pass @handdesignco.bsky.social along to them! We are hoping to have the site refresh sometime next week with more info and work examples, but we have availability starting in mid-November.

For @handdesignco.bsky.social: Site launches (2x), client meeting, and sending off contract... all today. For @otakujobs.bsky.social, got the next 3 days of postings queued up. Every Monday will be an open post to share who's hiring. Gonna be a very busy Monday.

Something @handdesignco.bsky.social is going to be offering starting in December: Portfolio website package Whether you're an artist, translator, editor, writer, we plan to give folks a beautifully custom portfolio site tailored to your brand or needs! We also offer payment plans!

Anyone have any recommendations of selling artwork online and working with a company to do printing and fulfillment?

OK, so one of the coolest things that @handdesignco.bsky.social did for us is they made us a place to thank every one of our active backers 🥰 It's a nice feature that is genuinely lovely, and we don't talk about it enough. After all, we're here thanks to our backers; they deserve all the shout-outs

Not an ad, we're just happy customers - hire these folks if you need design work done. 💖