We’re a do-it-all studio for strategy, design, and code, helping small businesses and non-profits deliver on their missions.
What we do
No Replica is a hybrid design and development studio with a love for research and experimentation. We evaluate your organization’s needs, propose and build solutions, and stick around to ensure long-term success.
Before we design or build anything, we figure out what you actually need. Research, audits, and data help us make decisions that hold up.
Refreshing and refining existing brands, and working out the voice and story behind a new one.
Mapping how people actually use your site or product, so structure and navigation follow real needs.
Visual and conceptual research reports that dig into your organization’s history and competitors.
Programmatic analysis of small or large datasets to find the story worth telling.
Performance and accessibility audits that show what’s holding your site back and how to fix it.
Making sure people (and AI search) can find you, without compromising on design.
We build identities that communicate your voice across every platform, from print to screen, and bring them to life through type, motion, and sound.
Logos, wordmarks, identity systems, and style guides that carry your brand’s unique voice.
Custom typefaces, variable fonts, and revivals of historical type. We publish our own fonts through our type foundry Too Much Type.
Interfaces and interactive prototypes that strike the balance between spectacle and accessibility.
Motion logos, trailers, sizzle reels, title sequences, and social content that add context and meaning to static assets.
Original music, sound design, and sonic branding systems for reels, animation, and interactive experiences.
Static and motion data graphics, infographic systems, and visual stories that make complex findings intuitive.
Templates, iconography, and print and digital materials that keep a brand consistent day-to-day.
We leverage the power of code to build websites and tools that would be impossible to create using conventional methods.
Custom-built sites that load fast and work beautifully on every device.
Content management that fits how your team works: Webflow, Sanity, Squarespace, WordPress, and more.
We build to meet WCAG standards from the start, and fix existing sites so that everyone can use them.
Custom visual generators and proprietary design software for graphics you couldn’t make by hand.
Web tools, animation, audiovisual experiences, and even experimental projects like web-based musical instruments.
Interactive longform articles that turn large-scale analysis into stories people want to read.
Creative coding workshops, open-source course materials, and tutorials, published freely through our teaching initiative GD with GD.
Selected work
Our projects span the full range from traditional to weird, with audiences local to global. The common denominator is our commitment to playfulness, experimentation, and detail.
- Skin & Bones Crafting a film portfolio inspired by physical film reels
- NumberStory Bilingual website and custom CMS for childhood trauma resources
- The Talent House A website with a musical instrument hidden in plain sight
- The 24 Hour Plays Loud and bold identity for a loud and bold theater company
- Williamstown Theatre Festival Identity for the festival’s first season back onstage
- Rhode Island School of Design Transforming an exhibition into an everlasting digital experience
- Too Much Type Developing fonts that push the limits of type design
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Who we work with
We partner with mission-driven people and organizations including universities, museums, journals, theater companies, public advocates, environmentalists, artists, and entrepreneurs.
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What we care about
We’re a small studio with strong opinions about how design should be made, shared, and maintained.
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Relationships first!
Let’s be friends! We’re a small team invested in building long-term relationships, where every project is the start a years-long collaboration.
Build for everyone!
Leave no one behind! We want our work to be available to as many people as possible, so we evaluate accessibility at every stage of design.
Make it last!
Think long into the future! We work across design and code to craft lean, durable systems and sites that your team can maintain long after launch.
Consider everything!
Don’t be precious about ideas, have fun in the process! We explore a wide range of possibilities to find the ones that best serve your mission.
Share it all!
We teach what we learn! Our studio operates GD with GD, an open-source teaching initiative, because good design should reach as many people as possible.
Our process
The reality of our work is that every project is different, so there is no one-size-fits-all process. Instead, we’ve adopted a flexible workflow that scales to your needs.
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Pre-design
Get to know you
Understand the problem
Establish context
Concept design
Organize research
Strategize
Identify and propose solutions
Design development
Prototype technologies
Design, build, iterate, repeat
Test and evaluate
Final design
Polish, package, export
Document, train, hand off
Support
Audits and maintenance
New ventures
Who we are
No Replica is a small studio by design. Instead of separating our team into designers and developers, we are multi-hyphenate creatives working across disciplines.

Gabriel Drozdov
Founder and creative director
Gabriel is a designer, developer, and educator based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He started out designing in-house for theater companies before going independent, and founded No Replica to work with arts and cultural institutions. He holds an MFA in Graphic Design from RISD, where he now teaches, and a BA in Computer Science and Theater from Wesleyan University.
Besides No Replica, Gabriel founded the type foundry Too Much Type, the educational initiative GD with GD, and the R+D lab Barco Loudly. Gabriel is the author of This Is For You, an open-source archive of his career with the hopes of helping new designers find their own paths.
Gabriel has elevated our branding with designs that exceed the creative brief and surpass our expectations. His work is thoughtful and inventive, our collaboration is engaging and rewarding, and the resulting designs are beautiful and inventive.”
Josh Martinez-Nelson
Former Director of Development & Communications
Williamstown Theatre Festival
What Gabriel brings to any project is more than a refined aesthetic eye. His work illustrates a unique understanding of communication and engagement that audiences have with design. He is able to synthesize a brand’s identity, communications goals, style, and intention into designs which are effortless to engage with, eye-catching, and nuanced.”
Marijke Silberman
Former Program & Communications Coordinator
Lab/Shul
Say hi! We’re always open to new projects, ideas, and collaborations.
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