Your digital studio and creative network.
Lylac gives creative people a living digital studio: a space to collect, shape, protect and share the world around their work with more depth than a feed, more humanity than a portfolio, and more freedom than a link-in-bio.
Save links, build moodboards, archive ideas, showcase projects, ask for feedback, collaborate with others, or turn your studio into a personal website for your bio.
Creative work rarely arrives fully formed. It develops through fragments: saved links, references, notes, images, conversations, unfinished ideas, feedback, obsessions and experiments that slowly begin to take shape. But online, most creative people are asked to show only the finished result. Work is flattened into posts, portfolios, grids and moments of performance, detached from the process and context that made it meaningful.
Creative universities understand something the internet often forgets: creative people need spaces around them. They need places to exist alongside one another, to work, discover, critique, collaborate and build a practice in proximity to other disciplines and ways of thinking. These environments are powerful because they do more than showcase talent; they incubate it. But once people graduate, or if they never had access to those spaces in the first place, that shared creative infrastructure often disappears.
Lylac begins from that absence. It gives creative people digital studios where they can collect links, build moodboards, archive ideas, ask for feedback, collaborate, showcase work, protect private spaces, or turn their studio into a personal website for their bio. Each studio becomes a space for a creative practice to live and evolve, while Lylac connects those studios into one wider network of artists, designers, makers and emerging creatives working alongside one another.
A versatile, modular Studio structure that evolves across creative practices.
Lylac is already being used by students, graduates and emerging practitioners from major arts and creative institutions around the world.
FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE
Lylac is for creatives across disciplines, including students, graduates and professionals, who want to create portfolios, sketchbooks and diaries as personal creative websites for free, while taking part in a real network built around practice, not posting. Artists, designers, architects, photographers, filmmakers, musicians, writers, illustrators, and 3D makers come together to build a sustainable creative network across disciplines.
- Find people who take the work seriously.
- Share process, not just outcomes.
- Build a network that doesn’t burn you out.
Illustrator / Graphic Designer
in app
on web
Illustrators and graphic designers are using their Studios as both living portfolios and working journals: presenting finished work through a highly customisable personal website, while also documenting process, references, thoughts and inspiration as their practice develops.
Photographer
in app
on web
Photographers are using their Studios as flexible, image focused portfolios, taking advantage of the modular structure to work across scales, sequences and bodies of work without being constrained by a fixed portfolio template.
Creative collective / multidisciplinary practice
in app
on web
Creative collectives are using their Studios as shared, living websites for their communities: documenting projects, events and exhibitions while bringing together the people, talent and network that make the collective what it is.
What people are saying about Lylac.
People are genuinely interested in a creative network centred on practice, portfolios and meaningful connection.
Lylac is already being used as a working layer for creative institutions
Creative work doesn't end at graduation, but the structures around it often do.
Lylac is increasingly being used within schools, studios, and institutions as a way to extend that environment, giving students and practitioners a space to continue developing work, sharing process, and remaining in dialogue with others long after formal education ends.
It functions less like a platform, and more like a distributed studio, one that doesn't dissolve once a course finishes.
For institutions interested in exploring this further, we're open to conversation.
Questions
FOUNDER
Lylac was founded and built by Piers Woodward, a designer and Central Saint Martins (BA Hons Architecture, 2023) graduate. Designed and developed independently, Lylac began as a response to the fragmentation of creative networks, a space shaped by lived experience inside art and design education.
Since its launch, Lylac has continued to evolve in conversation with the creatives who use it: students, graduates and professionals working across disciplines. It remains an independent, long-term project focused on building serious infrastructure for creative practice.
Why Lylac has developed this way.
Lylac grew from my Architecture degree at Central Saint Martins and from researching the conditions that allow creative communities to sustain themselves. In collaboration with SPACE Studios, my final project examined artist displacement in North London and explored how circular flows of space, resources, skills and opportunity might help creative infrastructure remain viable under pressure. I later continued researching artist displacement in London with the organisation after graduation.
That thinking carried directly into Lylac. I began building the platform after experiencing how abruptly access to Studio culture, workshops, peer exchange and informal networks can disappear after education. Lylac translates a longstanding interest in spaces, behaviour and shared infrastructure into a digital environment that can continue beyond one institution or location.