1987
A cart on the corner
Grandpa Van sold twelve sandwiches a day from a bicycle cart outside the market. The recipe book he kept in his coat pocket is still in the kitchen.
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About
Studio story — values, timelines, culture, locations
21 blocks( filter blocks )
01 — StudioIntroSplitManifesto lines beside a parallax-cropped portrait, with a hairline stat row of animated counters below.
years running
projects shipped
awards won
countries
02 — ValuesIndexNumbered studio values in hairline rows; each row expands smoothly on hover or focus to reveal its detail.
( what we believe )
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Craft over trends
We'd rather ship something quietly excellent than loudly fashionable. Trends fade; craft compounds.
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Radical transparency
Budgets, timelines, and mistakes are shared as they happen — not smoothed over in a status report.
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Slow is smooth
We protect the thinking time that makes the building time faster. Rushed work always costs more later.
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Opinions, held loosely
We arrive with a strong point of view and the humility to drop it the moment a better one shows up.
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No unnecessary meetings
If it can be a doc, it's a doc. Meetings are for decisions, not updates.
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Ship, then polish
Momentum beats perfection in the first draft. We refine in public, not in a vacuum.
03 — TimelineHorizontalCompany history as a drag-to-explore horizontal timeline with a connecting axis, dots, and year cards.
( our story )
( drag to explore )
04 — FounderQuoteOversized founder pull-quote with an accent quotation glyph and a signature row with circular portrait.
( founder's note )
Elena Marchetti
Founder & creative director
05 — CultureCollageScattered, rotated photo collage of studio life; tiles straighten and lift on hover, stacking to a grid on mobile.
( culture )
06 — OfficeLocationsStudio cities in hairline rows with live ticking local clocks and a cursor-following image preview on hover.
( studios )
Oslo
Norway
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New York
United States
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Tokyo
Japan
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São Paulo
Brazil
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Berlin
Germany
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07 — CapabilitiesMatrixServices-by-disciplines grid of accent dots with a spreadsheet crosshair highlight on the hovered row and column.
( capabilities )
( scroll to see more )
Research
Design
Engineering
Motion
Brand strategy
Digital product
Motion & film
Campaign & launch
Design systems
08 — AwardsShelfAward rows with year and project credit; hover slides an accent underline and reveals a cursor-tracking project thumbnail.
( recognition )
2026
Site of the Day
Obsidian — brand system
2025
Best Interaction Design
Lumen — product launch
2025
Developer Award
Fieldnotes — editorial platform
2024
FWA of the Month
Redline — campaign microsite
2024
Mobile Excellence
Driftwood — commerce app
2023
Design Studio of the Year
Anthem — identity refresh
09 — TeamHoverPortraitsGiant offset name index; hovering a name crossfades a tilted polaroid portrait pinned to the section edge.
( the team )
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Ada Voss
Creative director
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Milo Reyes
Design lead
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June Okafor
Head of engineering
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Sasha Lind
Motion designer
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Ezra Nakamura
Strategy director
10 — ManifestoScrollHighlightSticky manifesto paragraph whose words light up one by one, driven by scroll progress through a tall section.
( manifesto )
Webelievedesignisadecision,notadecoration.Everypixelearnsitsplaceoritdisappears.Webuildsystemsthatoutlasttrends,brandsthatholdtheirnerve,andinterfacesthatrespectthepeopleusingthem.Craftisnotoptional—itisthewholejob.Wemoveslowenoughtogetitright,andfastenoughtomatter.
11 — OwnerIntroFirst-person owner introduction: mono "since" eyebrow, serif greeting, personal paragraph, pull-quote, and a candid photo of one named human.
( since 2023 )
I opened this place because I missed somewhere that felt like a kitchen table — coffee made properly, bread from down the street, and time to actually talk. Three years in, I still open up most mornings myself. If the door is unlocked, come say hi.
“Good food is just hospitality you can taste.”
Jamie Moreauowner, usually behind the counter
12 — HeritageMilestonesOrigin story as three sticky full-viewport cards that slide over each other on scroll — giant year, short chapter paragraph, framed photo, alternating direction.
( our story, in three chapters )
2004
Four walls, same bread
The family took over a tiny storefront two streets away. Mum painted the sign herself; the oven from that year still bakes every morning batch.
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Today
Second generation, same corner
We serve a few hundred people a day now, but the rule has not changed since the cart: if it would not pass Grandpa Van, it does not leave the counter.
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13 — YearAccordionCompany history accordion with giant year numerals as toggles, each expanding to a summary line and plain milestone bullets.
( fifteen years, briefly )
- Two founders, one rented truck, a phone number painted on the side
- First contract: a garage roof for a neighbour — finished a day early
- Registered the company at the kitchen table in November
- Hired our first five tradespeople — three are still with us
- Moved into the workshop on Miller Road
- Completed the 100th project: the old library renovation
- Crossed 400 completed projects without a single unresolved dispute
- Opened the joinery shop — doors and frames made in-house since
- First apprentice program: four school-leavers, four keepers
- A team of 42, average tenure over six years
- Second workshop opened across the river
- Same rule as 2009: the founder walks every finished site
14 — FamilyStorySplitWarm family-business story: big honest photo beside serif narrative with italic emphasis, closed by a rotated heritage stamp.
( a family affair )
Three generations, one kitchen.
Nonna Rosa started with a single pot of ragù and a folding table outside the church. Her son built the dining room with his own hands; his daughter runs the kitchen today.
Nothing here is a concept. The sauce takes the same seven hours it took in 1962, the pasta is rolled before the doors open, and Sunday is still family day — for our family and for yours.
15 — ValuesHairlinesValues as numbered hairline rows — mono index, one serif word, one sentence; no hover states, completely calm.
( what we stand for )
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Honesty
If something goes wrong, you hear it from us first — with a fix already in motion.
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Patience
Good work takes the time it takes; we schedule around quality, not the other way round.
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Neighbourliness
We hire from the area, buy from the area, and leave every street cleaner than we found it.
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Care
The details nobody asked for are usually the ones people remember.
16 — CraftProcess"How we make it" in four alternating photo/text steps with oversized mono numerals — farm-to-table pacing.
( how we make it )
We start at the farm
Every Tuesday we drive out to the growers ourselves. If the tomatoes are not right that week, the dish comes off the board — simple as that.
Everything is made that morning
Dough at five, stocks at six, pastry at seven. Nothing sits overnight; the kitchen smells the way a kitchen should by the time you arrive.
Cooked to order, never to schedule
There is no heat lamp in this building. Your plate starts when your order lands and travels four metres from pass to table.
Nothing good gets wasted
Trim becomes stock, yesterday’s bread becomes tomorrow’s crumb, and whatever is left feeds the crew before close.
17 — PhilosophySerifFull-width serif manifesto of two or three quiet sentences with italic emphasis, signed with a name line and role.
( our philosophy )
We believe a room should feel like it remembers you. So we keep the lights low, the portions honest, and the welcome the same whether it is your first visit or your four hundredth.
Margot & Elias Fontaineowners since day one
18 — TeamSimpleGridHonest headshot grid — photo, name, role, and one human fact per person; no hover tricks.
( the people )
Sofia Reyes
head chef
names every sourdough starter
Tomas Lind
front of house
remembers your order from last spring
Ada Kowalska
barista
makes the best flat white in the postcode
Marcus Bell
baker
has cycled here at 4am for nine years
June Okafor
pastry
refuses to write the brownie recipe down
Petra Novak
weekend crew
started as a Saturday regular
19 — LocationStoryOur place: exterior/map photo beside a hairlined address block, a neighbourhood story paragraph, and a plain "visit us" link.
( where to find us )
14 Weaver StreetPine Quarteropen tue–sun, 8–22
The corner of Weaver and Pine used to be a hardware store, and before that a print shop — you can still read the ghost sign above our door. We kept the original floor, the neighbours kept coming, and the street kept its habit of saying good morning. Ten minutes from the station, two doors down from the flower stall.
20 — ResponsibilityTrioThree quiet commitments — community, sourcing, craft — each opened by a small brand mark, mono label, and a few honest sentences.
( what we owe this place )
( community )
We hire three streets away
Most of the crew walks to work. We sponsor the youth league, keep the noticeboard free, and the first coffee of the day is on us for the night-shift nurses.
( sourcing )
We know every supplier by name
Flour from the mill upriver, timber from a certified forest an hour out, produce from farms we visit ourselves. Short list, long relationships.
( craft )
We fix instead of replace
Things here are made to be repaired — recipes, furniture, buildings alike. If we would not put our name on it, it does not leave the workshop.
21 — MatrixSplitRowsNarrative about-section on a strict matrix: alternating text/media rows with mono row numbers, line-masked headlines, full-height parallax photos and roll-up ghost CTAs.
( who we are )
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We started in a borrowed office with one rule: never ship a decision we cannot defend with a drawing. Fifteen years later the office is ours and the rule has not moved.
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Projects, people, even the coffee rota live on the same matrix. Structure is not bureaucracy here — it is what lets thirty specialists act like one pair of hands.
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We measure ourselves on the work that survives contact with reality: systems still running, buildings still standing, clients still calling. Everything else is decoration.