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Commercial Web

Services

A virtual interactive showroom for NYC-based artist Matthew Fisher Design: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">CUSP</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://mfisher-apollonas.com/">mfisher-apollonas.com</a>

The Quarry House

Reclaim Your DNA

Next.js

Prismic

WebGL

Three.js

GSAP

Awwwards

The FWA

CSSDA

Site for a digital design studio from CanadaDesign: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">CUSP</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">heycusp.com</a>

CUSP is a global team of specialists, focused on crafting world-class digital solutions for today’s modern companies. And like every good shoemaker it needed a pair of fancy shoes.

CUSP Site

Matthew Fisher 2021

React

The shoemaker’s child has no shoes: a website for the digital design studio

To unbind our creativity we needed something more than CSS and JS. On the front end, we used React with the PixiJS and three.js libraries. The back end and CMS are based on Prismic. That allowed us to develop animations that cannot be created with conventional technologies. Shaders written with GLSL relocate calculations from CPU to GPU. That helps maintain high performance when it comes to rendering multiple complex animations simultaneously.

The overall aesthetic is minimal and bold, which pairs really well with the interactivity of the elements.

We worked through many combinations of animations and interactions to find a balance that worked for us. When brainstorming we have realized that none of the references were a perfect fit for an authentic look of the site. So we wrote custom solutions for a vast majority of animations and interactions ourselves.Running this amount of complex animations smoothly on any device, be it an old laptop or a smartphone, was a challenging task. The usage of shaders improved performance significantly. Combining optimization’s best practices with revising chunks of the project until there is no excess code resulted in further performance improvements. This way we made the site work at 60 FPS on most devices without compromising the visual aesthetics.

Awards

CUSP

A new generation of Hydrogen &amp; Fuel Cell technologyDesign: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">CUSP</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://refire.heycusp.com/">refire.heycusp.com</a>

A company website for a leading hydrogen energy engines manufacturer.

REFIRE

The second version of a portfolio website for a stone artist M. Fisher Design: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">CUSP</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://mfisher.com">mfisher.com</a>

Matthew Fisher 2022

Shopify

MFv2

Showcase of the works of Los Angeles-based cinematographerDesign: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">CUSP</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://eringwesley.com">eringwesley.com</a>

Portfolio site with several types of galleries for a Los Angeles-based cinematographer Erin G. Wesley.

Erin Wesley

Erin G. Wesley: standout portfolio website with easter eggs for a cinematographer

The focus for the entire experience is Erin’s incredible videography catalog. The main gallery creates a fluid and easy to navigate structure — built for speed so the user can cycle through multiple projects in a quick, dynamic fashion. There are so many easter eggs and little experiences within this seemingly simple portfolio site — but you have to dig around to find them. The most unique element on the site is Z-Space gallery, which allows to zoom into Erin’s creative catalog in an unexpected way. It’s a visually interesting way to view all of Erin’s work in one place, and is just a lot of fun to play around with. The gallery reacts to cursor position, and can be scrolled forward and backwards through ‘time’ offering a unique glimpse into the mind of Erin Wesley.

Erin needed an ability to manage all the new content she was generating. For content management we used Strapi, which was completely customizable and allowed us to build it specifically for Erin’s day-to-day site management needs. Because of Strapi&#39;s minimalistic interface it is easy to interact and work with content rather than navigate the dashboard.

AWARDS

An e-commerce platform for a well-established Egyptian sportswear retailerDesign: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://dashdigital.studio/">DashDigital</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://fitsole.shop">fitsole.shop</a>

Fitsole

Emma is Social

FTSL

Portfolio website for an interior designer from Tel-AvivDesign: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">CUSP</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://lironmoran-interiors.com/">lironmoran-interiors.com</a>

Amazing commercial interiors got a befitting residence for showcasing.

Liron Moran

A gentle rebellious studio who believes content is fire but social media is gasoline.Design: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://dashdigital.studio/">DashDigital</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://emmaissocial.com/">emmaissocial.com</a>

Human Person

EMMA

An interactive website for Nigerian Trophy Stout&#39;s social campaignDesign: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.makereign.com/">MakeReign</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://reclaim-your-dna.snp.agency/">reclaimyourdna.com</a>

Site is a part of a big campaign for Trophy Stout petitions Western museums to return Nigerian artifacts.

VANA

Reclaim Your DNA: an interactive digital  museum

To create our website, we used Next.js as a front-end framework for building web applications, three.js, react-three-fiber for working with 3-D objects and GSAP for animations.

3-D gallery

R_Y_D

A portfolio for a multi-disciplinary studio from Los Angeles Design: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">CUSP</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://humanperson.com/">humanperson.com</a>

A creative website showcasing the vast catalogue of Human Person&#39;s projects featuring works with big names like Billie Eilish, Kanye West, and Post Malone.

A curated collection of storied objects from Greek artisans by Eleni EleftheriouDesign: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">CUSP</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.syndesicollection.com/">syndesicollection.com</a>

SYNDESI

Webflow

SNDS

Syndesi

Selected Projects

Technology

Awards / Features

React Native

Typescript

Python

Django

Ruby on Rails

Breathing exercises platformDesign: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://dashdigital.studio/">DashDigital</a> Marketing Site: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://findyourvana.com/">findyourvana.com</a>

Mobile app for a wellness brand that focuses on breathwork

An MVP for a Czech crypto start-up

COIN.MOM

COIN

Half transparently social, half privately functional. Completely unifying the disconnected home industry in the USAMarketing Site: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://welcomeome.com/users">welcomeome.com</a>

A company website for a Washington-based consultancy firmDesign: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.makereign.com/">MakeReign</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.capitalgroupdc.com/">capitalgroupdc.com</a>

Capital Group is assisting clients in achieving their business objectives through consultancy and management.

Capital Group

Showcase of the works of NYC-based stone artist Matthew Fisher Design: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://heycusp.com">CUSP</a> View live: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://mfisher.heycusp.com">mfisher.com</a>

Site for contemporary artist Matthew Fisher which was the beginning of a long-term relationship: led to two more projects and interesting technical solutions.

Matthew Fisher

MFv1

Vana: a breathtaking app

Mobile app consists of mindful courses and breath exercises with repetitive patterns and sound accompaniment. Main features of the app are personalized recommendations system for the users, tools for progress tracking and collecting feedback. The overall aesthetic based on sensations felt through the breathwork. Gradients, cropped and blurry photos create a unique atmosphere of balance and motion at the same time.

Facilitators use their dashboard to add breathing patterns and compose them into full courses with additional content to support the experience. We have developed a visual and easy-to-use Pattern Builder that lies in the core of the process. It greatly reduces the amount of extra steps needed to wrap up a finished course.

The Admin Panel is quite similar to Facilitator’s Portal, but has loads of extra features like content moderation, financial reports, user management, and analytics.

Matthew Fisher:
a long lasting relationships

The site is a front-end React Web App that is powered by the Shopify Storefront API for e-commerce logic, products and most of the content. This allows us to create a unique design, embed cool galleries and animations, while maintaining the functionality of e-commerce. At the end your site will not only work like an online shop, but also look the way you want it. We have self-written custom approaches and solutions that help us overcome visual challenges. Most prominent are the custom scroll component and the prediction algorithm.

Technologies

Next JS

CUSP is a digital design studio. Their target audience is pretty wide: from large global brands to startups and small businesses. They wanted to create something fun and experimental that gave some insight into who they are as a team, and would be explorative for users.

The site was warmly welcomed by the community and received numerous prestigious awards. Moreover, it is being featured in various compilations as an inspiration and example on such platforms like Mindsparkle Mag, Greensock, Commarts, and Codrops.

The website is relatively small in comparison to others, so we focused our attention on the feeling of using the navigation throughout the site. The pacing is something we worked on a lot. We wanted everything to feel responsive but a bit more relaxed.

We’ve always loved infinite scroll so we worked that into our main navigation. Also, our cases page has two different view modes, allowing visitors to cycle between a more interactive project-by-project layout or a speedier scrolling index.

Erin G. Wesley is a Los Angeles-based cinematographer. Her portfolio includes works for projects for Netflix, Nike, NBA and Snoop Dogg. She’s also an accomplished photographer and regularly travels the world in search of new visual inspiration. She needed a portfolio site — something she could leverage to help find that next great production project.

We used the React framework Next.js to build the website. To create interactive experiences and key visual features, we used GSAP, WebGL shaders and PixiJS. At the heart of the site — our own custom scroll, which we call amayzing SNP scroll. It helps to improve website performance.

From the technical perspective, the most challenging part was the video gallery on the Home page. To make this gallery work seamless, we needed to combine several technologies at once. We connected our aSNP scroll and DOM elements with Pixi.js and added shaders. The focus of the work was really on revising and optimizing the experience working with videos. We had to make them load quickly and play smoothly on any device, anywhere.

Erin reaches a global audience with her professional work, so we had to plan for a wide variety of devices, connections and experiences. Besides on the Home page there is a small detail we’re really proud of — the aspect ratio change for the homepage thumbnails. It’s a subtle element to make the homepage view feel slightly cinematic in a way, and we thought it was a lot of fun.

Trophy Stout is one of the flagship brands of Anheuser-Busch InBev Nigeria. Brand decided to launch a campaign in order to challenge the British Museum, which holds captive over 900 objects from the historic Kingdom of Benin, including the Benin Bronze artefacts that were pillaged from Nigeria by British troops. The main part of this campaign was a website, enabling users to explore stolen unique artwork.

We saw exceptional results from this campaign, culminating in over 390,000 Nigerian sign-ups, the largest petition in Africa to date, 150 million earned impressions and 50 million Nigerians reached. With over 97 Benin Bronzes returned as a result of this massively successful campaign. This campaign was on the shortlist of the 2023 Cannes Lions Festival.

The website has a dual purpose: a digital experience that showcases the artifacts in a way that matches any museum, and to drive a mass social media movement demanding the artifacts return. The most challenging task was creating the impressive 3-D gallery of the original masks that users can interact with and explore, immersing them in the museum experience.

We spent a long time working with models, configured lighting, and used optimized textures to achieve maximum performance and visualization quality. Together with our partners MakeReign we created a digital experience better than any museum without the need for a visa or plane ticket.