Web workshop · Brittany & Paris · since 2007
Designs Genius is me, Sébastien Lopez. Nineteen years of custom-built websites for people with a real trade. And for the past few years, an artificial intelligence that has earned its place on the workbench: not to do the work for me, but to make it better, faster, without ever dropping the thread.
A few pixels from the workshop, in motion.
One craftsman, not an army.
When you write here, I’m the one who answers. I design, I code, I ship, I pick up the phone when something breaks. Since 2007 I’ve built, rebuilt and looked after some forty sites that are still running today: theatres, festivals, artisans, medical publishers, laboratories.
Custom isn’t a sales pitch, it’s an occupational habit: I’ve never sold the same site twice.
AI is a tool. Like the soldering iron.
No “powered by” badge here, no magic. AI works at the shop every day, same as my editor or my terminal: it audits a fleet of thirty-five sites while the coffee brews, migrates content without losing a line, tests every screen while I design the next one. It holds the third hand.
What it doesn’t do: choose, design, decide what’s right for your project. That’s nineteen years of craft. And that doesn’t get delegated.
sebastien@workshop ~ % wp plugin update --all
Success: Updated 7 of 7 plugins.
sebastien@workshop ~ % claude "audit the 35-site fleet,
list what needs updating"
⏺ 35 sites checked · 4 updates recommended
⏺ report written to fleet-2026-07.md
sebastien@workshop ~ % An ordinary morning. The coffee was still warm.
Every site has a story. Here are five.
2026
The Grand Est resource centre for children’s literature turns forty, with a new name and a festival in October. A WordPress theme cut by hand, school classes booking online, and a monthly letter that goes out from the same place as the news, without passing through me.
Read the build story
2026
Dexia Group’s summer party at the Villa Windsor: an Art-déco event site stitched for a single evening. Invitation, programme, directions and staff registration, from Paris to Brussels, in three languages.
2026
The complete overhaul of a medical pancreatology portal, shipped in June: redesigned from the ground up in Bootstrap 5, migrated and put back into production without losing a single article. Senior subcontracting for a medical press publisher.
2026
Astrological soul journals in a fully illustrated universe, stitched around a members’ area: every reading gets picked like a plant.
2026
The cultural season of a public institution, performing arts and arts education under one roof. A new poster every year, and a site that keeps pace without ever missing a box-office opening.
Real screenshots, July and August 2026. More stories on the way.
Interactive kiosks, video mapping, event sites: thirteen older builds that trained the hand. Kept on the record just as they were, in French.
Open
Tell me about your project in three lines or three pages. I read everything, I answer personally, fast, in English or in French.
