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Before a single pixel, I learn the business, the audience, and the one constraint that actually matters.
Remy Calder—Design Engineer & Art Director
Interfaces
worth
remembering.
I design and build cinematic, high-craft web experiences — from the first pixel to the last line of shader. One person, the whole stack.
Available — 2026Lisbon, PT
Independent · WorldwideSelected work below ↓Est. 2017
(Approach)
Most websites are assembled. The ones people remember are composed — art direction, engineering, and motion decided together, by one pair of hands. That is the only kind of work I take.
(Selected work)
Things I’ve made
(Capabilities)
One person,
the whole stack.
No hand-offs, no telephone game. The person who art-directs it is the person who ships it — so the idea survives all the way to production.
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Design Engineering
I build what I design — production React & Next.js with GSAP and WebGL, pixel-accurate and genuinely fast.
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Art Direction
Type, grid, image, and motion as one system. A point of view, never a template.
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Motion & Interaction
Scroll choreography, page transitions, and micro-interaction that earn their place instead of decorating.
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Brand Systems
Identities and design systems that hold from a favicon to a flagship launch.
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Creative Development
Shaders, generative visuals, and the hard interactive parts most teams route around.
Figma/GSAP/React/Next.js/TypeScript/Three.js/WebGL / GLSL/Lenis/Rive/Blender/After Effects/Figma/GSAP/React/Next.js/TypeScript/Three.js/WebGL / GLSL/Lenis/Rive/Blender/After Effects/
(About)
Nine years turning briefs into things that move.
I’m Remy — a design engineer and art director working independently from Lisbon. I started in graphic design, learned to code so my ideas would survive the build, and never looked back.
Today I partner with founders and studios who care about craft. I take a project from blank page to live site — owning the art direction, the interface, and the front-end engineering that makes it feel inevitable.
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- Long-term clients
(How I work)
Five steps, every time.
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Frame
We agree the single thing this site must do. Everything else is made to serve it.
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Design
Art direction in the browser — real type, real content, real motion. Never a flat mock handed over a wall.
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Build
I engineer it myself: fast, accessible, and faithful to the design down to the easing curve.
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Ship
Launch, measure, refine. The work isn't finished until it performs in the wild.
(Recognition)
Kind words from the juries.
- Awwwards — Site of the Day ×6 · Developer Award’22–’25
- FWA — FWA of the Day ×3’23–’25
- CSS Design Awards — Best UI & Best Innovation’24
- The Webby Awards — Nominee, Best Visual Design’23
(Selected clients)
HelioAtlas TypeCâlineNorthwindMonolithVersoKestrelOlemaBrightwallField Notes