Design Your Website to Perform
At Universe Design Studio, we create modern, high-performing websites that balance visual impact with ease of use. Every site is crafted to clearly communicate your ideas, engage your audience, and perform seamlessly across devices.
Featured Project: Website Design for Social Capital Partners
A minimal, colourful, easy to navigate Wordpress website. The highly organized content structure showcases their work clearly, and will easily evolve over time as more work is added.
Recent Web Design Projects
Social Capital Partners
Branding and website design for Social Capital Partners, a Canadian nonprofit with a focus on social impact initiatives and policies.
First Policy Response
Website and brand design for a Toronto Metropolitan University COVID-19 policy news website, First Policy Response.
Black Canadians in Electoral Politics
A project documenting Black Canadians’ participation and inclusion in Canadian politics, supported by the University of Toronto and SSHRC. We created a contemporary and professional brand design, a research findings report, a podcast sub brand, and a Wordpress website.
Canadian Caregiving Summit
Website design for a Canadian Caregiving Summit event. Brand development and all accompanying design assets created for the conference.
The Social Finance Fund Hub
Brand, logo, and website design for Canada's Social Finance Fund Hub. This project includes a minimal, accessible, bilingual Wordpress website and a modern logo design.
U of T Centre for the Study of Pain
Branding and website design and development project for The University of Toronto's Centre for the Study of Pain (UTCSP).
The Diversity Institute
The Diversity Institute is a Toronto Metropolitan University think tank. We created a complete contemporary brand system which can evolve over time and work across their many sub-departments and marketing initiatives.
Boann Social Impact
Boann is a social impact fund wholesaler, funded by the Government of Canada, to support Canada's new Social Impact Fund. We created the logo, website and complete brand identity package.
Erin Tolley, Canada Diversity Research Chair
Brand design and development of research portfolio style website for Canadian gender, race, and inclusive politics researcher.
Amanda Clarke, Research Excellence Chair
Brand design and website development for Amanda Clarke, a Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair. Personal portfolio website for Canadian researcher.
Anthony Moustacalis & Associates
Brand designer for Toronto criminal lawyer Anthony Moustacalis. Logo and website design for law office AMA LAW.
SAMbot
Website design for the Samara Institute for Democracy and Areto Labs. SAMbot is an AI designed to track toxic tweets on the federal election campaign trail.
University of Toronto
University of Toronto website design. UNIVERSE Creative Director Elaine worked at U of T for several years and had the unique experience of working on the university’s main website redesign project. The redesign took a year to complete and she was involved in every part of the process.
The Action Group on Access to Justice
Complete graphic and web design services of conference identity design, multilingual Wordpress website design and report designs for The Law Society's Access to Justice initiative, The Action Group.
What We Do
- Beautiful Contemporary Design:
Engaging, perfectly scaled layouts that showcase your branding. - Flexible WordPress Space:
Easy-to-manage websites that give you control and flexibility over time. - Accessible Design:
To Level AA Compliance. - Responsive & Mobile-First Development:
Websites that look and perform beautifully on any device. - Search Engine Optimization:
If you need it, we can get your organic search results at the top of results (including new AI results). - Ongoing Support & Maintenance:
We help you keep your site up-to-date and running smoothly.
How we Work
- Discovery & Inspiration:
Understand your goals, audience, and competitors. - Content Organization
We strategize to present your information optimally. - Design & Development:
We craft layouts, visuals, and interactions that bring your vision to life. - Testing & Refinement:
Ensure your website works seamlessly across devices and browsers. - Launch & Support:
Deploy your site confidently and provide ongoing guidance.
Let’s design something great together.
If our work resonates with you, we’d love to chat about your next project.