Two  people,
one  alley.

Vicolo is a studio of two, in Lahore. We've been at this together since day one. No agencies, no day jobs, just our own work from the start.

We started Vicolo because we wanted to stop saying yes to work we didn't believe in. The studio is small on purpose — two people, four hands, one conversation at a time.

Lahore gets mentioned a lot in our emails, less so on this page. It's a city that makes time for craft; we try to carry some of that into everything we build.

Ahsan Sarwar
Ahsan Sarwar
Backend, half of everything

Lives in the backend, but won't stop until the frontend feels right too. Reaches for a database diagram before a moodboard, then redraws the moodboard anyway. Fluent in Postgres, opinionated about button states. Builds the thing, then makes sure it looks right doing it.

Azeem Sarwar
Azeem Sarwar
Frontend, the other half

Lives in the frontend, but writes a respectable API when the day calls for it. Will redraw an icon at 2am because the curve was off by a degree. Fluent in React and CSS, cares about kerning more than is healthy. Thinks design and engineering are the same job, just different days.

Currently

Reading
Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Shipping
policystamp.com — April
Listening
Arooj Aftab · Nils Frahm · the ceiling fan — mostly the fan
Writing
A short note on handover docs — Journal, soon
Drinking
Dhaba chai, no sugar — one of us lies about the sugar
Vicolo Studio
Lahore, Pakistan
31.5204° N, 74.3587° E
Vicolo Studio
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