A Retro-to-Modern Website for Ology Studios
A 2003 homepage that updates itself into the studio's modern brand.
/ Overview
We built Ology Studios a website that opens as a 2003-style Windows page and transforms into their modern brand site at the click of Update, proving 'designing brands that never stop evolving' instead of just saying it.Ology Studios is a Melbourne and Delhi brand and design studio that grew out of the packaging company Boxology. We built ologystudios.co with Next.js, React and Tailwind, pairing the retro-to-modern reveal with scroll-driven motion, a start-a-project form and team applications that route to email, Google Sheets and Notion.
See it live/ Project Details
Client: Ology Studios
Industries: Design
Date: October 08, 2026
/ Challenge
Ology Studios sells brand identity and packaging to founders, and its tagline is 'designing brands that never stop evolving'. A standard studio website would only describe that idea, and look like every other agency.They wanted a site that proves it: memorable at first glance, full of personality, honest about the studio's roots in Boxology, and clear about how to start a project.
/ Provided Services
Retro-to-Modern Reveal
Working Retro Browser Pages
Scroll-Driven Hero Transition
Start a Project Form
Email, Sheets and Notion Routing
Returning-Visitor Memory
/ Solution
The site opens as a 2003-style Windows desktop with a working retro browser, complete with About, Clients and Contact pages and a note that it was last updated 21 years ago. One click on Update the Website reveals the modern brand site, the studio's evolution made literal.The modern site flows through scroll-driven sections: services, the Boxology origin story, principles, the five-step process, clients and team. Returning visitors skip the retro intro, and the start-a-project form routes enquiries to the studio.
/ Tech stack
Next.js 16
React 19
Tailwind CSS 4
Motion (Framer Motion)
Notion API
Google Sheets API
Custom Software
Web Applications
Mobile Apps
UI/UX Design
API Integration
Cloud Architecture
DevOps
Quality Assurance
AI Solutions
Data Engineering
Cybersecurity
Automation
Performance
Support & Maintenance