The human behind the depth
Designer who codes. Developer who sketches. Eight years turning flat pages into places you can almost walk into.
From flat templates to full depth
It started with frustration. In 2018, after years of building beautiful designs that died the moment they hit a browser, I decided the web deserved better than rectangles stacked on rectangles. I spent a full year learning everything about perspective, transform-style and easing curves — and rebuilt my first portfolio with sections that rose out of the screen.
That experiment became a career. Today I work with studios, founders and brands across three continents, building sites that treat scroll as a camera and depth as a material. Every project is hand-built: no page builders, no bolted-on libraries, no template energy — just choreography, typography and code.
When I'm not pushing pixels into the third dimension, I'm writing about it. My journal is read by ~30k developers and designers every month, and my talk "The Web Has Z-Axis" has been featured at three design conferences.
Eight years in motion
Independent Creative Developer
Running my own studio practice — immersive sites, kinetic identities and 3D art direction for clients like Aurum, Noir Atelier and Studio Meridian. 120+ launches, 14 international awards, zero boring pages.
Senior Creative Developer — Studio Noir
Led the interactive team on luxury e-commerce and fashion week installations. Learned that performance budgets and art direction can — and must — coexist.
Digital Designer — Atlas Digital
Brand systems, editorial layouts and my first motion experiments. Discovered that typography is 80% of the internet's soul.
BSc Computer Science + Design Minor
Where the two halves of my brain met: graphics programming coursework by day, poster design for student festivals by night.
Sharpened daily
Numbers below are honest self-assessment, not marketing. The gap between 95% and 100% is where the next eight years of practice live.
Let's talk about you
One email is all it takes. Tell me about your project, your timeline, and how deep you want to go.
hello@alexcarter.studio Contact page