About

A company with 25 years of web development experience.

RED AXIS j.d.o.o. was founded in August 2013 in Varaždinske Toplice, in northern Croatia. For years it ran alongside a full-time career; since 2026 it is a full-time studio, working for clients in Croatia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the Benelux.

01

The story

The first websites were hand-written HTML, uploaded over a dial-up modem. Then came Flash: multimedia CDs, animated websites and early web shops, and with them the habit of building whole things rather than parts.

From 2004 to 2016 Emil was a software developer and later IT manager at a Croatian industrial company, writing the internal systems the business ran on and running its infrastructure.

Freelance work ran alongside the whole time: around a hundred websites and shops for local businesses; custom business applications such as a warehouse dock-scheduling system for Ledo, a production-management system and a working-hours record that, rebuilt from the ground up, lives on as Cuketi today; logos and stationery for shops and workshops in the region; and, from 2012, regular web design and development for agencies in Switzerland and Germany, including one of Germany's largest media and advertising groups.

In 2016 he joined a large European fashion and e-commerce group, first as senior web designer, then team lead, then web art director. Ten years of multi-brand, multi-market work: landing page systems, a component-based email architecture across the group's brands, campaign production at a scale of hundreds of thousands of assets a year, and the automation needed to keep that manageable.

In 2026 RedAxis became the full-time job. What changed in the meantime is the tooling: AI-assisted development, content and production let a small studio do work that used to need a floor of people, without lowering the standard. That is the bet RedAxis is built on.

02

Timeline

  1. ~2001

    First websites

    Hand-coded HTML in the dial-up era, for friends, bands and the first paying clients.

  2. 2002 to 2008

    Flash years

    Multimedia CDs, Flash websites and shops, and the first custom web applications.

  3. 2004 to 2016

    Enterprise software and IT

    Developer and IT manager at an industrial company; websites, shops and custom business applications for local clients on the side.

  4. 2012 to 2015

    Swiss and German agencies

    Regular freelance web design and development for agencies in Switzerland and Germany; logos and stationery for local businesses.

  5. 2013

    RED AXIS j.d.o.o. founded

    The freelance work gets a company: web development, e-commerce and digital services.

  6. 2016 to 2026

    Inside a European e-commerce group

    Senior web designer, team lead, web art director: multi-brand landing pages, email architecture, production systems.

  7. 2026

    RedAxis full time

    Websites, shops, custom applications, creative production and hosting, with AI-assisted workflows at the core.

03

Where we are going

01

Small by choice, broad by design

A small studio with a network of trusted partners, covering strategy, design, development and operations. The right tooling now makes that possible at a quality level we would not have promised five years ago.

02

AI as a craft, not a shortcut

We invest in AI-assisted workflows for development, content, localization and creative production, and we keep a person accountable for every result that leaves the studio.

03

Brands built properly

From identity and website to shop, automation and the email that lands in the inbox. We like working with owners who want one partner for the whole picture and are happy to grow with them.

04

Products next to services

Cuketi, eCijene and WowAd started as answers to problems we kept meeting in client work. More will follow, always from real use rather than ideas on paper.

04

Competences

Platforms
WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, OpenCart, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Development
PHP (Laravel, WordPress), JavaScript, React, Node and TypeScript, MySQL, REST and GraphQL APIs, Kotlin for Android
Marketing systems
Email automation (Omnisend, Klaviyo, Brevo, SFMC), segmentation, customer journeys, tracking and attribution, Google Tag Manager
Design and production
UX and responsive design, logo and print design, Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML5 animation, design systems and template-based production, CAD and 3D for product housings
Operations
Linux servers, Nginx, Cloudflare, backups, security hardening, staging and deployment pipelines
AI tooling
AI-assisted development and content workflows, custom integrations for AI assistants (MCP), automation with n8n
Languages
Croatian (native), English (C1), German (B2)
05 / Clients

Companies and brands we have worked for

Past and present, across websites, shops, applications and design. Some of this work has since been redesigned or retired, which is normal after 25 years.

  • Calzedonia
  • Intimissimi
  • Tezenis
  • Falconeri
  • IUMAN
  • Signorvino
  • Ledo
  • DAF Hrvatska
  • Carbon Standards
  • Ad Alliance

and many more

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