Artasce Creative · Salt Lake City
Building on the web
since 1999.
One licence, two names, and a long habit of shipping.
A design and development studio building for the AI-first era — and building with it.
The mission
Build for the AI-first era — and build with it.
The studio runs a system that designs, builds, reviews and ships the work, with a human eye on every outcome. Nobody is sold that as a novelty. They get the result of it: brands that hold up, sites that are finished, and businesses that were standing and working before anyone had to imagine them.
Brand
An identity with a point of view — name, mark, palette, type and the voice that goes with them. The work that decides what a business looks like before a single page is designed.
Web
Sites that are built, not assembled. Editorial storefronts, galleries, promotional worlds and the plain working pages a business actually runs on.
Product
Where a site is not enough: apps, tools and the systems behind the front door. Invoices that go out, bookings that land, questions that get answered.
The system
Artasce builds for the AI-first era — and builds with it. The work is designed, built, reviewed and shipped by a system the studio runs, with a human eye on every outcome. Clients are not sold this as a novelty. They are handed the result of it.
Selected work
What the studio has built.
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Where the name came from
It started with a travelling salesman
learning HTML.
In 1999, in Dallas, Texas, a travelling salesman taught himself HTML. Not a computer science route — a side interest that took over. A work connection moved him to Utah and into a marketing company, where there was already a coder, but the sites were ugly. He had a degree in architecture and an artist’s eye, so he taught himself design, and then PHP, to fix that.
The business licence was filed in June 2000 under the name Turbo Gold. The first website sold for $100, to a man who resold event tickets. Turbo Gold did not survive a chamber-of-commerce evening where someone asked whether he was selling vitamins.
In 2006 it was renamed Artasce — art plus ascend, with the ending dropped. The name came out of a line about working with your hands and your heart, attributed to St. Francis of Assisi. Same licence lineage, still building, now trading as Artasce Creative.
Where to go next
This is the brochure.
The workshop is next door.
Looking to work with the studio
Artasce Creative is the working practice — live examples you can try, the services as they are actually delivered, and the people who answer.
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Press, partnerships, a question about something in the portfolio, or a note about the history on this site.
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