Morphos / Studio
A studio for places with stories
One pair of hands from first sketch to live site. Eight sites delivered, ten languages, and a deliberately small team.
Morphos Studio is a two-city studio with one pair of hands. Yifan Zheng designs, builds and deploys the work — from the first conversation about a place to the automation that keeps it running afterwards. London and Geneva are the bases; the work travels further than the studio does.
Why one pair of hands
Most studio work breaks in the handover. The person who understood why the hero should feel like dusk goes back to a different project, and the person who builds it never had that conversation. Keeping design, build and deployment in one head removes the gap where the intent usually leaks out. It also means the answer to "can we change this in week three" is a yes or no from someone who knows what it costs.
How the studio works
The five disciplines
- Design & build — websites and storefronts, designed and shipped, then maintained.
- Products — mini-program source, brand systems, published skill packs. The reusable output of client work.
- Forward-deployed engineering — embedded inside the client operation, working in your tools rather than at arm’s length.
- AI applications — comment monitoring, content pipelines, enquiry triage. Applied where it saves a real hour, not to tick a box.
- Growth systems — an eight-source opportunity radar and follow-up sequencing. The machinery that finds the next client while the last site is being finished.
What has been delivered
Eight sites, ten languages, five disciplines, two cities. Selected work includes Tankardstown House and Rathsallagh House in Ireland, and the restaurant Kai — hospitality and estate projects where the atmosphere is the product. Five further projects are available on request under confidentiality.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Studio | Morphos Studio · Yifan Zheng |
| Bases | London, United Kingdom · Geneva, Switzerland |
| Sites delivered | 08 |
| Languages | 10 |
| Disciplines | 05 |
| Availability | Booking from Q1 2027 |
| Direct contact | [email protected] |
How to start
Send a sentence or two about the place. You get back a direction, a timeline and a price — not a questionnaire, and not a discovery call you did not ask for. If we are not the right fit for what you need, saying so early is the most useful thing we can do.
Who actually does the work?
One person. Yifan Zheng designs, builds and deploys every project, which is why the answer to "who do I ask about this" is always the same person. Specialists are brought in for photography, copy in a specific language, or a legal review, and you always know when that is happening.
Why is the studio so small?
Because the work is coordination-heavy and taste-heavy, and both degrade when a project is passed down a chain. Staying small means the person who agreed to the idea is the person who ships it.
Do you work with clients abroad?
Yes. Sites have been delivered in ten languages for clients across Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Calls are scheduled in your time zone; the work happens remotely.
What is a forward-deployed engineer?
Someone who embeds inside the client operation rather than delivering from a distance — sitting in your tools, your data and your weekly rhythm, and fixing the thing in front of you rather than writing a report about it. It is the part of the work that usually happens after the website.
Do you take on projects that are already half-built?
Often. Rescuing a stalled build, finishing a design someone else started, or keeping the parts of an old site that work and replacing the rest are all normal here.