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Aarna Studio
Editorial portfolio site with a headless CMS, custom motion and 98+ Lighthouse scores.
- Client
- Design studio
- Industry
- Creative services
- Timeline
- 3 weeks
Brand-led web designHeadless CMSMotion designPerformance & SEO
Problem
- A template-based site made an award-winning studio look interchangeable with every other portfolio online.
- Publishing a new project required a developer, so the work shown was consistently months out of date.
- Heavy unoptimised imagery meant slow loads on mobile — where most enquiry traffic was arriving.
Solution
- A bespoke editorial layout with typography and motion designed around the studio's own visual language.
- A headless CMS so the team publishes case studies, images and copy themselves in minutes.
- Responsive image pipelines, lazy loading and structured data for fast, well-indexed pages.
Impact
98+
Lighthouse performance score
3 wks
Design to live site
0
Developer hours to publish work