Art and design studio, Melbourne, Australia
Untitled Studio
An independent multidisciplinary art and design studio in Melbourne.
The prompt
Create an experimental, award-winning portfolio website for an independent multidisciplinary art and design studio in Melbourne. Combine Swiss editorial typography, asymmetrical layouts, oversized imagery, unconventional navigation, and sophisticated motion design. Make the website feel like an interactive digital art gallery, featuring immersive projects, creative transitions, and a distinctive visual identity.
The direction it chose
Every project is a lit exhibit with its own wall label
Research turned the prompt into an art direction before anything was drawn: one idea that every photograph, layout and interaction on the site had to serve.
First a picture, then a website.
Before writing any code, Unvop rendered the homepage as a finished design. Then it measured that picture, transcribed its words and built the real, responsive page to match. Drag to compare.
Every page, written in full.
The navigation in the design became real pages, each with its own sections, copy, search title and description.
- /HomeAn independent multidisciplinary art and design studio in Melbourne. Identity, exhibition design, installation, print and publishing, and moving image.5 sections (opens in a new tab)
- /galleryGalleryWalk the Untitled Studio gallery: one room for each discipline, one exhibit in each room, shown large with its wall label. Art and design, across disciplines.4 sections (opens in a new tab)
- /workWorkThe full index of work by Untitled Studio, an independent art and design studio in Melbourne. Each project hung as a wall label beside its exhibit.4 sections (opens in a new tab)
- /work/sample-projectSample projectA sample project page from Untitled Studio, an independent art and design studio in Melbourne: the exhibits in sequence with their wall label, ready for the studio's own work.4 sections (opens in a new tab)
- /studioIndependent, and from MelbourneUntitled Studio is an independent multidisciplinary art and design studio based in Melbourne, working across identity, exhibition design, installation, print and publishing, and moving image.4 sections (opens in a new tab)
- /approachApproachHow Untitled Studio works: every project treated as an exhibit, given room, light and time, and each project deciding its own medium across art and design.4 sections (opens in a new tab)
- /contactStart a projectTell Untitled Studio about the work you have in mind. Enquiries through the form on this page, and what happens after you write.3 sections (opens in a new tab)
- /privacyPrivacyHow Untitled Studio, an independent art and design studio in Melbourne, handles the details you send through the enquiry form.3 sections (opens in a new tab)
The system it made.
Colour
- ground
#0b0b09 - ground alt
#1f1a15 - rule
#362d24 - rule strong
#53483d - accent
#c9a45a - muted
#a7a099
Type
- DisplayArchivo
- TextNewsreader
Form
- Start a projectNameEmailOrganisation (optional)What kind of work? (optional)Tell us about the work you have in mind
Every submission goes to the CRM, with an automatic reply.
Then it reviewed its own work.
Once the site was live, every page was opened at five screen widths and measured: text that overlaps, clips or runs off the screen, contrast on the real pixels, images against the design. An agent per page fixed what it found, then every page was measured again.
- Pages audited at once
- 8
- Fixes made
- 120
- Measured layout faults removed
- 91%
What got better
- Layout
- Craft
- Accessibility
What it fixed
- Text covered
- Text overlap
- Page overflow
- Low contrast
- Image missing
- Tiny text
