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Three awards, three sectors: Richard Chapman Studio win again at the Web Excellence Awards 2026
Posted 3 weeks ago in design chat, web design
London, May 2026: Richard Chapman Studio has been recognised with three awards at the Web Excellence Awards Season 18, winning in the Financial Services web design category for OTIF Ventures, the Real Estate web design category for Buckingham Green, and the Law & Legal Services web design category for Angular Legal. The wins bring the studio’s total Web Excellence Awards tally to five, following our previous Season 17 wins for ICON Corporate Finance and Outliers VC.
The three awards are particularly notable for spanning three distinct sectors in a single season: financial services, real estate and law. These reflect the studio’s long-standing practice of building specialist expertise across the professional services world.
“A diversity of styles, sectors and client briefs is what drives us. It keeps our work interesting and me and my team challenged. To find that the Web Excellence Awards agrees and recognises the quality of what we’ve been doing over the last few months is not only a highly deserved pat on the back for everyone at Richard Chapman Studio, but hugely gratifying.”
Richard Chapman
Creative Director, Richard Chapman Studio
Award winning web design for OTIF Ventures
OTIF Ventures
Financial Services web design
OTIF Ventures invests in early-stage, EIS-eligible spinout companies from Oxford, Cambridge and the world’s leading research institutions. When a new name demanded a new identity, the challenge was to deliver transformative change without discarding the long-term investment in time and creative evolution on the majority of the website..
From the Web Excellence Awards website:
“OTIF Ventures backs founders turning scientific research into solutions for the world’s greatest challenges. Its website relaunch needed to match that ambition. On arrival, a custom-drawn typographic identity slides open to introduce their new name with quiet theatricality. Bold type, video and an investments section that reads as an enviable portfolio of world-changing companies complete the picture. The masterstroke is what you don’t see: seven years of accumulated digital intelligence, preserved and reinvigorated rather than discarded as a new era begins. Strategic, precise and beautifully resolved.”
Award winning web design for Buckingham Green
Buckingham Green
Real Estate web design
Commercial real estate development Buckingham Green occupies a unique location in central London, and its new website needed to reflect that ambition. Working with management company L&O and commercial estate agents JLL, we built a completely custom, next-generation real estate website that draws a graphic language directly from its architecture.
From the Web Excellence website:
“Buckingham Green sits between St James’s Park and Victoria at one of the capital’s most distinctive addresses and this striking website knows it. Jagged geometry, materiality and spatial thinking inspired by its built environment blend with achingly cool video snippets. This combination delivers a could-only-be London visual system that feels genuinely native to the development. Amid all this, the site’s delicate, beautifully drawn technical diagrams provide a walk through the property and its local hotspots. Digital placemaking at its best.”
Award winning web design for Angular Legal
Angular Legal
Law & Legal Services web design
Angular Legal is a specialist boutique law firm based in Fitzrovia, London. The rebrand challenged us to find a visual language worthy of a name that already contained its own brief: sharp, precise, angular. The result is an identity built around negative space and geometry, expressed across a website homepage that uses interactive animation to create something highly unusual in the legal sector.
From the Web Excellence Awards website:
“Angular Legal takes its name seriously and their site uses razor-sharp branding to make geometry, animation and colour do genuine strategic work. The result is a practice website that instantly looks as precise as it thinks. Bold and distinctive, it is a rare example of a professional services brand that earns attention on its own terms.”
About the Web Excellence Awards
The Web Excellence Awards recognise outstanding achievement in web design, development and digital experience across a wide range of sectors and disciplines. Entries are judged by an international panel of industry professionals. Richard Chapman Studio has now won five Web Excellence Awards, with three wins in Season 18 across the Financial Services, Real Estate and Law & Legal Services categories, following two wins in Season 17.
About Richard Chapman Studio
Richard Chapman Studio is a specialist brand identity and web design agency based in Chelsea, London. The studio works with clients across financial services, venture capital, legal, real estate, hospitality and beyond, with projects across the UK, the Middle East, Europe and the United States from our design studio in Chelsea Harbour, London. Founded in 2003 by Richard Chapman, the studio is known for custom, original design work built around a deep understanding of each client’s sector and audience.
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If you are looking for a branding or web design partner with a proven track record across financial services, legal and real estate, we would love to talk.
- Get in touch: 020 7351 4083 or email us directly.
