About 86 Design · Since 2012
Same people, years later.
86DSGN is a small, hands-on team that designs, builds and looks after websites from South Africa, for businesses around the world. The 86 comes from our founder’s birth year, 1986.
- Since 2012
- An agency since 2016
- You deal with the people doing the work
What we've built, and what we learned
Over the years we’ve built websites, run campaigns and designed brochures, menus and reports for businesses across 20+ industries, from insurance and agriculture to streaming tech, in South Africa, Europe and beyond.
The biggest lesson: most websites don’t fail on launch day. They fail months later, when nobody is watching the updates, the backups or the forms. We build with that in mind, and we built 86Tools so we can look after a WordPress site properly.
It’s also why we’ll tell you straight when an old site is worth keeping, and when it’s time to start again.
Good work, for people we get to know. Then we keep looking after it.
How we work
The person you talk to is the person doing the work. No account managers, no ticket queue.
Plain English, honest advice, and if your site is fine, we'll tell you that too.
Month-to-month care. You stay because it works, not because you're stuck.
Launch day is the start. If you'd like us to, we stay on and look after the site.
86Tools, our proprietary WordPress toolkit, runs on the sites we maintain.
Based in South Africa, working across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the US.
Where to next
Let's get to know each other.
Got a project, or a site that needs looking at? Say hello.
Questions about 86DSGN
Where is 86DSGN based?
In South Africa. We’re a small, hands-on team that designs, builds and looks after websites for businesses around the world.
How long have you been doing this?
Our first website client was a fashion brand in 2012, and we became an agency in 2016.
Where does the name come from?
The 86 comes from our founder’s birth year, 1986.
Who will I work with?
The person you talk to is the person doing the work. There are no account managers and no ticket queue.
Which industries have you worked in?
Many, from insurance and agriculture to streaming tech, in South Africa, Europe and beyond. We don’t name clients, but you can see the kind of work we do on our work page.