An instrument panel, not a pitch.

One studio, based in Porto, run the way a precise machine is built — every number and every stage labelled before you need to ask.

Most studio "about" pages describe a feeling. Here's what's actually true instead: arcdesignlabs publishes every package price on this site, publishes the five-stage process every project runs through, and states what each package does and doesn't include before a visitor ever fills in a form.

That's not a marketing device — it's the actual belief the studio is built on: friction in commissioning creative or product work is a design failure, not a negotiating advantage. If a number can be published, it is. If a stage can be described, it's on /process/. If a scope decision would normally get explained apologetically on a call, it's written down instead, in public, on the relevant page.

This is also why the site looks the way it does — dense, ruled, spec-sheet-like, more drafting table than pitch deck. The visual language and the pricing philosophy come from the same idea.

A working corner of the arcdesignlabs studio — reference material and an in-progress spec sheet, not a posed portrait.

The practice

arcdesignlabs is a single, focused practice rather than a growing agency roster — one point of contact who scopes, designs and builds the work described on this site, with the published process and pricing standing in for the reassurance a bigger team would otherwise provide in a sales call.

That's a deliberate trade: no account layer, no handoffs between the person who sold the project and the person who builds it, and a catalogue kept honest because every package has to be deliverable by the same practice that priced it.

How we work

  • Every price on this site is the real price, published before you ask
  • Every package states what's included and what isn't
  • We reply within one business day
  • We meet in Porto in person, if that's easier than a call
  • Nothing goes live without a staging environment to test it first

Address & hours

Rua da Bainharia 148
Porto, Portugal

+351 936 298 020
support@arcdesignlabs.com

Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00
Sat 09:00–16:00

We work with clients across Portugal and the wider EU remotely by default — the Porto address is real and the door is open if a visit is easier for you, not a requirement to work with us.

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