S5 Studios Webside by Shogo Tabuchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award yn Goud in Webside en Webûntwerp Competition Category.

GoudWeb· 2021

S5 Studios Webside

by Shogo Tabuchi

Client: S5 Studios

A' Design Award yn Goud Winner in Web Category

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The Design

About S5 Studios Webside

Dizze webside is de portfolioside fan Shogo Tabuchi en kombinearret ûntwerpestetyk mei werjeeftemooglikheden en fernijfreonlikens. De Covid-19-pandemyy yn 2020 hat it foar keunstners wrâldwiid in útdaging makke om har wurk mei oaren te dielen. Dit hat online promosje wichtiger makke as ea earder. Dizze portfolioside is in selspromoasjeprojekt wêrby brûkers in glimp krije kinne fan de unike styl fan de keunstner troch har sicht, gehear en oanrekking.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award yn Goud

S5 Studios Webside is in winner fan de A' Design Award yn Goud, in ekstreem prestisjeuze erkenning foar earste-klas, prachtige en treflike ûntwerpen. Goudwinners binne tige ynnovative, fisionêre en glamoureus ferbjusterjende skeppings dy't it sjeny, de wiisheid en de feardigens fan har ûntwerpers wjerspegelje. Fan S5 Studios Webside wurdt ferwachte dat it in tige priizge, trendsettende en monumintale útfining is dy't unferlykbere wearde leveret. Dit winnende ûntwerp fan de A' Design Award yn Goud is in spektakulêr, respektearre projekt dat grutte foardielen bringt en de grinzen fan keunst, wittenskip, ûntwerp en technology ferleget. S5 Studios Webside makket yntinse gefoelens fan begearte, stekt passy oan, stimulearret kreativiteit en fassinearret ús.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: "Shapely, Sharp, Skillful, Splendid, Supreme."
S5 Studios is a creative studio that incorporates these five adjectives into the artist's work. It also serves as a portfolio for the commissioned works of Shogo Tabuchi.
This website places particular emphasis on presenting the artist's ideas and strengths through the design, execution, and music of the website to create a vibrant user experience that draws on unique designs and cutting-edge technology.
Dimensions & Packaging: Available in the latest versions of Chome, Firefox, Safari, iOS and Android
Tags: Art director, Web designer, Portfolio, Design Agencies, Promotional, 3D, GSAP Animation, PixiJS, Craft CMS, Three.js
Production Technology: Pixijs and three.js allow for asynchronous browsing in all directions, while gsap and css3 are used for finer transitions and animations. Objects are efficiently managed in javascript by using fewer than 100 classes, and the website’s responsive design keeps user experience consistent across all devices.
A cms was built to update Works and Information. Due to concerns with a slow server-side cms, I used ejs to build a system that generates html automatically when Json files are updated locally.
Design Challenge: Designing a website that captures an artist’s individuality is difficult. This design is not flat but spatial in nature, so we can only imagine how users will experience this space. It took over 6 months to complete this design as I had to repeatedly tweak the user flow and visual elements.
In addition to creating materials to share the design aims with developers, the designers also complemented the work of engineers by collaborating on programming after they built the development environment.
Research: Although sites such as Awwwards feature excellent websites around the world every day, there are many websites with similar designs around.
I believe that each website should be designed differently as each brand is unique. In particular, portfolio websites must capture the artist’s individuality.
covid-19 has limited how artists can share their works, making online promotion critical for them.
It is thus important to create portfolios unique to artists by harnessing their ideas and strengths.
Inspiration: Designers work on new tasks by drawing inspiration from the toolbox of knowledge and experience in their mind. The design concept for this website is no different.
This website’s landing page is a dark space with floating particles, which alludes to how ideas coalesce in an abstract space. Users are led to individual sections, and as they venture deeper into the website, the thumbnails of projects are shown. Information is presented in more granular detail the deeper it is in the site hierarchy.
Project Duration: October 2019 - Designing the first draft
February 2020 - How many prototypes will be designed
May 2020 - Development work begins.
　Designed 160 pages of case studies and news pages
　Music and photography production
September 2020 - Completed
October - Published on the web
Operation Flow: Start by selecting whether you want to browse the website with/without background music. Users can turn music on/off at any time when browsing.
Navigate the top page by clicking on a section that interests you. I have created a larger clickable area for “Works,” which brings users to a page where they can scroll through the different project categories. Clicking “Explore” brings them deeper into the site and displays a list of projects.
This site has a similar user interface on all devices.
Team Members: Interaction Director/Designer: Shogo Tabuchi
Front-end Developer: Tomoya Takahashi (Orunica Inc.)
Sound Designer: Nao Kakimoto
Photographer: Shin Ishikawa
Photographer: Kenichi Aikawa