Design, development, operations
Michael Cooke
Builds the sites, keeps them running, writes the emails that go out at the end of the month. Fifteen years across property, publishing and platform work.
The Studio
Two people. One craft.
Michael and Ruba Cooke run Ashera Studios out of Catalonia. We take on a small number of clients each year and look after their websites, email and social channels like they are our own.
Content, social, client relationships
Ruba Cooke
Plans the channels, writes the posts, sits with clients to hear what they actually need. Studio direction and the voice of most of what goes out.
The Name
Where Ashera comes from.
Asherah is an old symbol from the Levant: a tree, and the title Lady who Treads upon the Sea. A steady, useful image for us, without any of the mysticism.
The mark takes the tree literally. The canopy stands for the presence people see: the website, the posts, the emails, the small daily surface of a business. The roots stand for the systems nobody sees: the hosting, the backups, the queues, the maintenance that keeps the surface reliable.
Both matter. Most studios do only one. We do both, quietly, on a monthly retainer.