Riv Lux Media is an independent digital studio based in New York. In English and Spanish, we design and build custom websites, 3D and WebGL experiences, browser games, and web apps.

Small studio, senior work. The person who designs your site is the person who builds it.

Working with a small New York studio

New York has no shortage of web agencies. Most of them are one of two things: a large shop where your project gets staffed by whoever is free, or a freelancer who disappears when a bigger client calls.

We're the third thing, on purpose. The studio is small enough that you always talk to the person doing the work, and established enough that sixteen projects are live and running right now.

What that changes in practice:

There's no account-management layer. You describe the problem to the person who will solve it.
We make decisions in hours, without waiting for the next sprint. A small team doesn't need a ceremony to change a colour.
Scope and price are fixed, and the numbers are published on our pricing page.

Bilingual work, which New York actually needs

NYC's 2026 planning report says 48% of residents aged five and over speak a language other than English at home, using 2019–2023 ACS estimates. That figure describes residents. It doesn't measure search demand, and language needs change from one neighborhood to the next. NYC Department of City Planning.

We review the Spanish for the audience it's written for and connect each page to its equivalent with language annotations. There's more on bilingual websites, or you can read this page en español.

What we build

Web design and development: custom brand websites
3D and WebGL: real-time interactive experiences
Browser games: playable marketing, five shipped
Web apps and AI: installable products with a real backend

Do you have to be in New York?

No. Most of our work is remote and always has been. The studio is in New York. Our clients don't have to be.

If you're local and want to meet in person, we do that. If you're in Chicago or Guadalajara and would prefer to work over video and a shared repo, that's how most of these projects run anyway.

Local presence is business infrastructure

Our local-business website service covers clear service descriptions, accurate coverage, proof of past work, and the path a customer takes to get in touch.

A local website should do more than name a city. It should make the business easy to find, verify, understand, and contact. Sometimes that's a focused one-page site like DonFixYou, and sometimes it's a larger set of service pages, depending on the decision your customers are actually making. We wrote more about why local businesses need an online presence in 2026.

Common questions

Do you have an office we can visit? We work as a distributed studio and don't keep a client-facing office. Meetings happen on video, or in person somewhere in the city when that's genuinely useful.

Do you work with businesses outside the five boroughs? Yes, across the US and internationally. The work is the same. Only the timezone changes.

Can you handle a project that needs both English and Spanish from day one? Yes, and it's one of the things we do best. Deciding at the start is also materially cheaper than retrofitting the second language later.

What kinds of businesses do you usually work with? Independent businesses and small teams that need a site to actually do a job: restaurants, clinics, legal practices, publishers, wellness brands, and product companies. Our own portfolio spans wellness, publishing, wine, games, and AI.

How do we start? Start a project. The intake takes about four minutes, and it gives us enough to come back with a real number.

A web design studio in New York