↳ portfolio / 2026 NYC · 40.7°N vdmri studio

full-stack with taste. made for brands
that actually care.

i build sites for fashion startups, indie cafés, bands, art studios — small contemporary brands who'd rather not look like everyone else.

not a dev shop. not a design agency. one person, both ends, obsessive about the seam between them.

currently — accepting Q3 work
2 slots open
scroll · the site is the pitch
about / 01

vdmri ships products that look like they were made by someone who cared — because they were. one studio, both ends — code, design system, type — usually in that order. sometimes in reverse, depending on the day and the espresso.

based
brooklyn
stack
next · ts · gl
shipped
38 sites
since
2021

what i do —
the short list.

four things, done
extremely well
/01
brand sites
marketing pages that read like a magazine spread, ship like a product. one-pagers, full sites, lookbooks.
/02
e-commerce
shopify hydrogen, custom checkouts, inventory dashboards. fast carts, slow scrolls.
/03
interactive
webgl, scroll choreography, custom animations. when the experience is the product.
/04
art direction
naming, identity, type pairing, palette. when you don't have a designer and need someone with taste in the room.
selected work — 2024 / 2026

the folio.
not a grid.

a handful of projects, told the way they deserve. each one shipped end-to-end — design, build, deployment, the parts no one asks about.
/01 — fashion

atelier nō
spring lookbook.

a contemporary womenswear label out of seoul. we built a scroll-driven lookbook with full-bleed editorial pacing, custom cursor states, and a private buyer portal.

year2026 roledesign + build stacknext · gsap
/02 — café

kafé yū
menu, mapped.

a four-location specialty café in singapore. mobile-first menu with a taste-graph filter, real-time wait times, and a quiet little ordering flow that pays for the redesign in a month.

year2025 rolefull build stacknuxt · supabase
/03 — music

moss & ash
album release.

a lp campaign site for a brooklyn duo. webgl liquid type for the title sequence, ticket flow, and a tour map that updates from a single google sheet. ships in three days.

year2025 rolecreative + dev stackthree · sveltekit
/04 — architecture

chōsei studio
practice site.

a tokyo architecture firm's portfolio site. drawn-on-paper aesthetic married to a museum-grade image pipeline. one of the fastest sites i've ever shipped — 98 lighthouse, three large galleries.

year2024 roledesign + build stackastro · gl
"vdmri is the only studio i've worked with who argues with me about kerning and is right about it. that's the bar."
marlowe okaforcreative director, atelier nō
"showed up with taste, left us with a system. the team has been shipping with it for eighteen months and it still feels new."
jun kimfounder, kafé yū
"hired them for a landing page. came out the other side with a brand identity. somehow on time."
esme delacroixmoss & ash
— the manifesto, briefly · keep scrolling

— the manifesto it's time to break
through every default,
every template, every
vibe-less ordinary.

keep scrolling
— rebuilt, on the other side

let's make
something new,
together.

got a project that doesn't fit the template? a brand worth doing right? a site that needs to feel like something?
2 slots — q3 2026
email — hi@vdmri.studio
are·na — /vdmri
github — /vdmri
Cherry-Coloured Funk
Cocteau Twins
Heaven or Las Vegas
listening — last 14m
group