Epok Design. Screen-printed greeting card made by Epok Design, used as the project cover.
Client
Epok Design
Service
Custom WordPress development
Team
Design: Epok Design
Development and motion design: Eric Huguenin
Awwwards & Mentions
Website of the Day
Honorable Mention

Challenge

Since 2009, Epok Design has created identities and printed objects for Moët Hennessy, the Grand Palais, LVMH and Université Gustave Eiffel, from Paris and Rennes. Their work is judged by holding it as much as by looking at it: the paper, the finishing, the binding of a catalog. A screen loses that material quality. We had to replace it with a rhythm and a motion that show the same attention to detail.

Epok Design. Collage of pages from the Epok Design website: the homepage, the project slider and several scrolling case studies.

Approach

Epok Design handed us its identity rather than finished mockups. We translated its typographic system and its use of white space, designed for paper, into screen rules: scales, margins, scroll behavior. We validated each template on real projects from their portfolio, never on dummy content, the only way to check that the grid held whatever the work shown.


Epok Design. Project list on mobile: the work scrolls by as full-screen thumbnails.
Epok Design. Project page on mobile: the case study visuals alternate with short blocks of text.

Key solutions

Custom WordPress theme, editable from end to end: the studio publishes its projects and builds its pages without us. Projects open from a slider and unfold as modular pages, alternating full width and columns depending on the work shown. We wrote the motion for the studio’s identity, with clean, slightly dry transitions, closer to the language of their printed editions than to the web’s usual reflexes. The site is available in several languages.

more of our work

01

Ozone Light

Ozone Light. Ozone's Luxembourg chandelier seen from below: a wide ring of white light suspended by three black arms from an ornate ceiling rose.

02

Hebras Avocats

Hebras Avocats. The Hebras firm's spiral staircase seen from below, lit by a cloud of suspended glowing globes.

03

Un Jour Un Dessin

Un Jour Un Dessin. Ink drawing of Wolverine by Matthieu Bolufer, used as the project cover.

04

Legend of the Five Rings

Legend of the Five Rings. Illustration from the Legend of the Five Rings universe: a samurai in a Rokugan setting, used as the project cover.