Solstice
A website built around a single idea: let the work be the interface, and get everything else out of its way.
Solstice arrived with a deck, a deadline and a site that buried its best work three clicks deep. We rebuilt the whole thing around one rule — nothing on screen that isn't earning its place.
The structure came first. We cut the navigation to four entries, collapsed two content types into one, and rebuilt the project pages so the images carry the argument instead of the copy.
On the build side, everything is static and hand-written — no framework, no page weight spent on things a visitor never sees. The result loads in under a second on a phone.
The project index, rebuilt around full-width imagery.
Left: type scale and grid. Right: motion study for the page transitions.