Notes from the studio
Long-form essays on depth, type and motion — everything I learn while building sites like this one, written down before I forget it.
Designing Depth: scroll-driven 3D that feels cinematic, not gimmicky
Most "3D websites" feel like tech demos. The good ones feel like films. This is the system I use to keep depth on the side of cinema — Z-layer budgets, the one-camera rule, easing as editing, and the exact math behind scrubbing transforms against scroll without dropping a single frame.
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The typography of immersion: display type in dark interfaces
Gold on near-black is the most unforgiving pairing on the web. Here's the spacing, weight and stroke logic that keeps it luxurious instead of murky.
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From Figma to browser: shipping award-worthy interactions
A production pipeline that survives contact with reality — how motion design survives the trip from prototype to production without turning into a compressed GIF.
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