spanner

Spanner is tediously devoted to clarity. We go on about it. Our web tools are highly engineered and minimally presented: they fit in your hand and do the right thing. Our writing is lean and to the point. Our design for tv, web and print is devoutly bare and functional. Our best work comes from combining disciplines: building web machinery to assemble communal narratives or turning online debate into striking reporting. We like to disappear into a new piece of work until it doesn’t feel built or designed or written at all: it just works, fitting into the flow of your day and doing the right thing.

We’ve been writing professionally for twenty years and building interactive websites since 1993. Somewhere there’s a stack of trophies from our sleepless youth including a DMA gold, one of the first Yell awards and several sites of the month and (once) year in the internet press. These days we’re older and quieter (and more rural), but still hard at work and always looking for new challenges. Please do get in touch.