Selected work · 2023 – 2024
Teknesis
Type
Agency website
Duration
3 months
Year
2023 – 2024
Role
Frontend Developer and CTO
Outcome
No CMS and no server to maintain, so the site costs nothing to keep running
Tools
- React
- Vercel
The website for a digital agency working across web development, branding and design. The brief was the hardest kind for an agency site: the site itself has to be the argument for hiring them, so the typography and restraint are the product.
Teknesis is a digital agency working across web development, branding and design, and their site has the hardest brief an agency site can have: it is simultaneously the portfolio and the proof. Anyone judging whether to hire them looks at the thing they are reading.
So the work was typography, spacing and restraint rather than features. React, deployed to Vercel, with no CMS behind it, because an agency edits its own site a few times a year and a CMS would have been a permanent maintenance cost in exchange for that.
Inside Teknesis
The hardest brief an agency site can have
Teknesis works across web development, branding and design, so their site is simultaneously the argument and the evidence. Anyone deciding whether to hire them is judging the thing they are reading while they decide. That ruled out features and ruled in typography, spacing and restraint. It ships as a static React build with no CMS behind it, because an agency edits its own site a few times a year and a CMS would have been a permanent maintenance cost in exchange for that.
Confidence, expressed as space
Past work introduced in a line of plain prose and then set out one at a time, numbered, each name at display size. No thumbnail grid and no case-study template. For a studio with a handful of pieces genuinely worth showing, a list that takes its time reads as selection, where a dense grid reads as padding. It is also the cheapest thing to keep current, which for a site nobody is paid to maintain is the difference between accurate and abandoned.