Hello! My identify is Clarisse and I’m a contract internet designer at Okey Studio, at present based mostly in Toulouse, France. Along with Adrien Quéchon, an internet developer, we co-founded Okey Studio in 2021 — an unbiased digital studio specializing within the creation of distinctive, absolutely {custom} web sites. We notably love creating inventive and authentic websites the place we will play with concepts, interactions, and visuals, whereas nonetheless assembly our purchasers’ targets. We put a variety of coronary heart into crafting personalised consumer experiences, at all times aligned with the wants and imaginative and prescient of these we work with.
What I particularly take pleasure in is the range of sectors we collaborate with: it pushes us to remain curious, consistently take a look at new visible languages, discover sudden concepts, and problem our habits.
Featured Work
Cyclops Membership
That is the promotional web site for Cyclops Membership, a New York-based studio providing video manufacturing and enhancing companies to optimize your multimedia content material. Created inside Okey Studio, the positioning immerses guests in a unusual, dynamic, and enjoyable universe.
Challenges: We needed to include nods to the video world (timelines, icons, progress bars, time indicators, REC mode…), in addition to GIFs and Easter eggs. The problem was to keep up knowledgeable tone whereas protecting it enjoyable — so we needed to discover the fitting stability between all these parts.
Private word: This was a type of initiatives the place you actually really feel inventive freedom, and above all, the place we genuinely had enjoyable. Marvin trusted us 200%, which allowed us to push the graphic boundaries fairly far whereas staying in keeping with the model picture and targets. We loved hiding little easter eggs and GIFs all through the positioning. The nicest was embracing this humorous tone whereas sustaining knowledgeable and managed basis.
Digital Gallery
Digital Gallery is a private challenge we created internally at Okey Studio. The location honors photographers who generously share their images on-line. It celebrates their expertise by means of a small digital photograph gallery — like an exhibition house, however in a digital type. We needed to create a easy and satisfying shopping expertise by means of a collection of beautiful images, that includes rigorously crafted scrolling and an immersive really feel.
Challenges: The most important problem was most likely deciding on the images. I sorted the pictures by colours and moods to keep up a constant aesthetic all through the positioning.
Private notes: Since it is a private challenge, it was naturally tougher to set boundaries. No consumer, no deadline… so that you need to preserve going, preserve testing, preserve redoing. You must be taught to set limits for your self and settle for that it’s “completed” in some unspecified time in the future. Nevertheless it was additionally a real inventive bubble, a playground and experimental house — the type of challenge that reconnects you to the easy pleasure of designing with out constraints.
Inertia Studios
That is the showcase web site for Inertia Studios, a London-based inventive studio pushing the boundaries of CGI, design, and futuristic aesthetics. Their ambition: create visible experiences that seize you, cease you, and make you’re feeling one thing actual.
Created inside Okey Studio, the positioning adopts a reasonably sober aesthetic: micro-interactions, easy transitions, delicate hover results, giant capitals, and stable and well-paced typographic blocks, for a pointy and impactful look — with out feeling chilly. A real stability between rigor, minimalism, and boldness. I actually love the work of Inertia Studios — collaborating on their web site redesign was a pure pleasure.
Challenges: Inertia has a powerful model picture and a world consumer portfolio, so it was important to stay extremely skilled and completely legible. The primary problem was to keep up a “basic” construction by way of usability (clear info, intuitive navigation) whereas avoiding boredom by injecting modernity and visible stress.
Studio Karo
Karo is an artwork and clothes model based mostly in New York, based by Anya Karolyn. The studio defines itself as: non-traditional, a unification of art work, trend, music and video. Anya reached out to Okey Studio to revamp her e-commerce web site. I imagined a extra creative, unconventional, and daring model, absolutely rooted in her aesthetic. The design adopts a brutalist method, that includes chrome parts — a colour and materials that Anya notably loves — in addition to touches of electrical blue; each emblematic of her visible identification. We cherished transcribing the world of Studio Karo by means of interactive internet animations the place customers change into a part of the expertise.
Challenges: The problem was undoubtedly to search out the fitting stability between an inventive, extremely private design — with a powerful visible aesthetic — and a easy, intuitive e-commerce expertise. The location wanted to each mirror Karo’s distinctive world whereas permitting customers to navigate simply and store with none friction.
Private word: I cherished engaged on this challenge — Anya and I have been actually on the identical wavelength from the beginning. She gave me full belief, and we instantly understood one another about her wishes, her goals, and the inventive path to take. It was a brilliant inventive challenge the place I may deliver some completely different, typically bolder concepts — and he or she completely cherished it. A easy, inspiring, and releasing collaboration!
Henri Heymans
Henri is an internet developer who contacted me to work on the internet design for his first portfolio. His aim was clear: to face out from different builders and attempt to win a Web site of the Day (SOTD) on Awwwards. The location, now up to date (2025), is sadly now not on-line — however I saved a video and visible captures of it.
It featured a brutalist type on a black background. The design performed with very giant typographic compositions, scale variations, and a horizontal scroll that paced the navigation. The central aspect of the positioning was a 3D liquid metallic sphere in destructive, positioned on the homepage. It responded to cursor actions, making a hypnotic impact that anchored the expertise in a dwelling materials.
Private word: This was a challenge the place I may discover a daring design with a powerful graphic stance. Henri needed a web site that grabs consideration — and we had enjoyable making a showcase in contrast to some other.
My private web site
That is my private web site, designed as a inventive showcase that displays each my type and persona. I needed it to be minimalist in construction, but enjoyable and human, giving a extra intimate glimpse of who I’m.
Within the loader, Adrien had enjoyable animating the emblem with a pixel impact we love — we particularly take pleasure in these sorts of little particulars. Once you arrive on the web page, the central characteristic is a distortion impact utilized to the principle textual content, making a full of life and interactive texture.
Since I get bored rapidly and like virtually each colour, I added a “Change the temper” button that allows you to modify each the web page’s colour palette and the welcome GIF within the Hero part. This offers the positioning an evolving vibe and highlights visible range, whereas including a playful contact.
It’s not a basic portfolio: no detailed challenge pages, however reasonably a private house the place I can current my work in a means that fits me, take a look at concepts, and evolve the positioning as I please.
Challenges: The true problem was setting boundaries for myself. Once you create for your self, something is feasible, and I have a tendency to love and take a look at many issues. I needed to resolve: “Okay, that is the path I select,” and persist with it till the top.
Because of Cédric, videographer, for his superior work on the video for my showreel.
Background
I studied graphic design in Toulouse, with a last yr specializing in internet design. I rapidly developed a style for internet design and interactive experiences. Proper after graduating, I had the chance to work immediately on internet initiatives as a freelancer — and I made a decision to completely embark on this journey.
In 2021, along with Adrien Quéchon, we based Okey Studio to supply a whole service: {custom} design and growth, hand in hand.
One of many highlights was our very first Web site of the Day on Awwwards: after spending my scholar years admiring different designers’ work on that web site, seeing our personal work featured there was a real achievement.
Design Philosophy
For me, creating an internet site means telling a visible story that displays a model’s persona. I consider in custom-made options, the significance of particulars, and the concept a web site should be stunning, practical, high-performing, and designed to face out, no matter its complexity.
Instruments and Methods
I exploit Figma for design and conception, and I really like working carefully with Adrien on the event aspect to boost interactions and brainstorm animation concepts collectively. I do a variety of inventive analysis and exploration earlier than every challenge. It’s additionally important for me to completely immerse myself on the planet of the consumer or model I’m working with.
Inspiration
On-line, I wish to browse websites like Awwwards, CSS Design Awards, FWA, Dribbble, Pinterest, and many others. (nothing very authentic). However I additionally draw a variety of inspiration from actual life: by means of journey, in addition to music, books, and movies.
Future Objectives
I’d wish to preserve creating web sites which might be each inventive and tailored, with extra initiatives the place I’ve true creative freedom, or a minimum of loads of house to suggest authentic concepts. I actually take pleasure in having enjoyable in what I do! And I need to proceed refining my work and enhancing.
Along with Adrien, we might additionally like to begin engaged on the Okey Studio web site — a web site that really displays who we’re and showcases our work and initiatives. It’s an thrilling problem, however we’ll want to search out the time, as initiatives like this could rapidly change into an actual playground!
Last Ideas
It’s at all times a bit tough to present recommendation or share a private message, however I’d merely say: take pleasure in what you do, have enjoyable, and put your coronary heart into it — it often comes throughout within the challenge 🫶
Thanks a lot for studying, and a giant due to Codrops and Manoela for inviting me to share a glimpse of my world and work.
You could find my contact data on my web site clarissemichard.com
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