For design studios, agencies and art directors whose next client judges them on the site before the deck. Dark, editorial and confident, built around oversized type and full-bleed parallax bands rather than a features grid.
Lead with the single project you want more of, not your best-known one - the hero photograph does more selling than the headline above it. Replace the gold accent with your own brand colour and keep everything else monochrome, because the restraint is what makes one accent read as deliberate. Six projects is plenty; a studio that shows thirty looks like a marketplace.
A design studio's own website is the strongest sample of work it will ever show. Prospects assume it is the ceiling of your taste, not a compromise made for time.
Six projects with the brief, the constraint and the outcome persuade more than twenty thumbnails. Editing is the skill on display.
Sector, size of client, kind of engagement. Prospects self-select on this, and the ones who select accurately are the ones worth talking to.
This template is built on restraint. Adding badges, gradients and competing calls to action fights the design and reads as insecurity about the work.
Replace the demo projects with yours before launch and keep the imagery high resolution: on a dark editorial layout, compression artefacts are the first thing a designer notices.
Long paragraphs on a dark ground are genuinely harder to read, and the design is doing the persuading anyway. Cut the copy to the shortest version that still answers what you do and who for.
A studio site is judged on its weakest case study, not its average one. Show three you are proud of, with the brief, what you did and the outcome, and leave the rest out until they are worth the same treatment.
Yes - you can start building with the Studio Noir template for free. Paid plans unlock more projects, custom domains, and additional features.
It comes with 4 ready-made pages: Home, Work, About, Contact.
It is set up for Gallery. Those are built in rather than add-ons, so they work from the moment the site is created.
Archivo for headings and Inter for body text, on a palette built around #c9a227 and #141417.
No. The Studio Noir template is edited visually in the drag-and-drop builder - no coding at any point.
Creative & Portfolio
A designer's portfolio as a poster: the wall of work full-bleed, an edge-to-edge mosaic with one solid colour tile in it, prices on ink, and a two-day reply promise.
Creative & Portfolio
A photographer's site in the dark: a full-bleed portrait, an edge-to-edge mosaic, every frame numbered like a contact sheet, three packages priced, a date check as the ask.
Creative & Portfolio
Music school: an instrument index with ages and prices, a teachers-who-still-play story, a free trial lesson as the ask.