Hello! My identify is Clarisse and I’m a contract internet designer at Okey Studio, presently primarily based in Toulouse, France. Along with Adrien Quéchon, an online developer, we co-founded Okey Studio in 2021 — an impartial digital studio specializing within the creation of distinctive, absolutely {custom} web sites. We significantly love creating inventive and unique websites the place we are able to play with concepts, interactions, and visuals, whereas nonetheless assembly our purchasers’ objectives. We put quite a lot of coronary heart into crafting customized consumer experiences, all the time aligned with the wants and imaginative and prescient of these we work with.
What I particularly take pleasure in is the variety of sectors we collaborate with: it pushes us to remain curious, always 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 modifying companies to optimize your multimedia content material. Created inside Okey Studio, the positioning immerses guests in a unusual, dynamic, and enjoyable universe.
Challenges: We wished 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 take care of knowledgeable tone whereas holding it enjoyable — so we needed to discover the proper stability between all these components.
Private be aware: This was a kind 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 objectives. 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 venture we created internally at Okey Studio. The positioning honors photographers who generously share their photographs on-line. It celebrates their expertise by a small digital photograph gallery — like an exhibition area, however in a digital kind. We wished to create a clean and gratifying searching expertise by a number of beautiful photographs, that includes rigorously crafted scrolling and an immersive really feel.
Challenges: The largest problem was most likely deciding on the photographs. I sorted the photographs by colours and moods to take care of a constant aesthetic all through the positioning.
Private notes: Since it is a private venture, it was naturally more durable to set boundaries. No shopper, no deadline… so that you wish to hold going, hold testing, hold redoing. It’s a must to study 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 area — the sort of venture that reconnects you to the straightforward 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 quite sober aesthetic: micro-interactions, clean transitions, refined hover results, massive capitals, and strong 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 robust model picture and a world shopper portfolio, so it was important to stay extremely skilled and completely legible. The primary problem was to take care of a “traditional” construction when it comes to usability (clear info, intuitive navigation) whereas avoiding boredom by injecting modernity and visible rigidity.
Studio Karo
Karo is an artwork and clothes model primarily based in New York, based by Anya Karolyn. The studio defines itself as: non-traditional, a unification of paintings, style, 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 strategy, that includes chrome components — a colour and materials that Anya significantly loves — in addition to touches of electrical blue; each emblematic of her visible identification. We cherished transcribing the world of Studio Karo by interactive internet animations the place customers turn into a part of the expertise.
Challenges: The problem was undoubtedly to search out the proper stability between an inventive, extremely private design — with a robust visible aesthetic — and a clean, intuitive e-commerce expertise. The positioning wanted to each replicate Karo’s distinctive world whereas permitting customers to navigate simply and store with none friction.
Private be aware: I cherished engaged on this venture — Anya and I had been really on the identical wavelength from the beginning. She gave me full belief, and we instantly understood one another about her needs, her targets, and the inventive course to take. It was a brilliant inventive venture the place I may deliver some totally different, generally bolder concepts — and he or she completely cherished it. A clean, inspiring, and releasing collaboration!
Henri Heymans
Henri is an online developer who contacted me to work on the internet design for his first portfolio. His purpose was clear: to face out from different builders and attempt to win a Web site of the Day (SOTD) on Awwwards. The positioning, now up to date (2025), is sadly not on-line — however I saved a video and visible captures of it.
It featured a brutalist fashion on a black background. The design performed with very massive typographic compositions, scale variations, and a horizontal scroll that paced the navigation. The central aspect of the positioning was a 3D liquid steel sphere in unfavorable, situated on the homepage. It responded to cursor actions, making a hypnotic impact that anchored the expertise in a residing materials.
Private be aware: This was a venture the place I may discover a daring design with a robust graphic stance. Henri wished a web site that grabs consideration — and we had enjoyable making a showcase in contrast to every other.
My private web site
That is my private web site, designed as a inventive showcase that displays each my fashion and persona. I wished 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 brand with a pixel impact we love — we particularly take pleasure in these sorts of little particulars. Whenever you arrive on the web page, the central function is a distortion impact utilized to the primary textual content, making a energetic and interactive texture.
Since I get bored rapidly and like virtually each colour, I added a “Change the temper” button that permits 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 variety, whereas including a playful contact.
It’s not a traditional portfolio: no detailed venture pages, however quite a private area the place I can current my work in a manner that fits me, take a look at concepts, and evolve the positioning as I please.
Challenges: The true problem was setting boundaries for myself. Whenever 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 determine: “Okay, that is the course I select,” and persist with it till the tip.
Because of Cédric, videographer, for his superior work on the video for my showreel.
Background
I studied graphic design in Toulouse, with a ultimate 12 months specializing in internet design. I rapidly developed a style for internet design and interactive experiences. Proper after graduating, I had the chance to work straight 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 imagine in custom-made options, the significance of particulars, and the concept a web site have to be lovely, practical, high-performing, and designed to face out, no matter its complexity.
Instruments and Strategies
I take advantage of Figma for design and conception, and I really like working intently with Adrien on the event facet to reinforce interactions and brainstorm animation concepts collectively. I do quite a lot of inventive analysis and exploration earlier than every venture. It’s additionally important for me to completely immerse myself on the planet of the shopper or model I’m working with.
Inspiration
On-line, I wish to browse websites like Awwwards, CSS Design Awards, FWA, Dribbble, Pinterest, and so forth. (nothing very unique). However I additionally draw quite a lot of inspiration from actual life: by journey, in addition to music, books, and movies.
Future Targets
I’d wish to hold creating web sites which can be each inventive and tailored, with extra initiatives the place I’ve true creative freedom, or not less than loads of area to suggest unique concepts. I actually take pleasure in having enjoyable in what I do! And I wish to proceed refining my work and enhancing.
Along with Adrien, we’d additionally like to start out engaged on the Okey Studio web site — a web site that actually 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 will rapidly turn into an actual playground!
Remaining Ideas
It’s all the time a bit tough to provide 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 venture 🫶
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 information on my web site clarissemichard.com
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