Orvel

Orvel is a complete website for an independent brand and digital studio in London and Lisbon, founded in 2013, with thirty-four designers, writers, strategists and engineers working for companies in eleven countries. It is designed to show the studio by its work: a reel, sixteen projects, what it makes and the people who make it.

The site includes Home, Work with sixteen project pages, Services, Studio, Journal with thirty notes, and Contact, plus Privacy and 404 pages.

The visual direction is a light editorial page that turns dark only where it helps, with a wide grotesk for display and a monospace for labels. The hero is a close-up portrait that moves like liquid under the pointer, the studio reel opens out of the opening statement, each client name is set in its own typeface in a pinned project deck, services turn on a capability drum, and the journal is a magazine that turns its pages as you scroll.

Built as a fast static site in Astro with plain TypeScript, GSAP, Lenis and WebGL, Orvel keeps its projects and journal notes as content files, respects reduced-motion settings and works on a phone. The studio reel, the two-city scene with live clocks and the project brief form are built in.