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Website · 2025
Panda Creative Studio
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Project Overview
Panda Creative Studio is a branding and identity studio in Addis Ababa. The site is a rebuilt multi-page portfolio — home, work index, a 50-image gallery, an about page, contact, and detailed brand case studies — carrying the studio's own emerald-on-black design tokens and typographic system. Every piece of content was pulled from the studio's live work, nothing invented.
Key Features
- ✦Full-viewport hero with a cursor-lit grid atmosphere and rotating discipline word
- ✦Filterable work index across the studio's six service disciplines
- ✦50-image gallery with category filters and a keyboard-accessible lightbox
- ✦Brand case studies with full colour systems, typography, and logo symbolism
- ✦Progressive enhancement — every filter and lightbox works without JavaScript
- ✦Accessibility-first: skip links, focus traps, 44px targets, reduced-motion support
- ✦Built from shared partials so every page regenerates from one content source
Challenges & Solutions
The site had to work as a design statement in itself while staying genuinely accessible and resilient — reveal animations, the rotating headline, and the cursor light all degrade cleanly, and no content can ever be stranded at opacity zero if a script fails.