Hello, Glitch

The wordmark up top glitches when you hover it. It lasts about 400 milliseconds and then it’s gone. That’s deliberate, and it’s the whole thesis of the studio in one gesture.

Restraint is the effect

A glitch that never stops isn’t a glitch — it’s a texture, and your eye tunes it out in seconds. The interruption only works if the pattern is boring enough to interrupt. So the site is mostly calm: quiet type, a lot of black, one accent colour. The motion earns attention because it’s rationed.

Two tiers, on purpose

The hover flicker is pure CSS — clip-path slices and an RGB offset on two pseudo-elements. No JavaScript, no bytes, works on live text. The heavier moments — the burst during a page transition — run on a WebGL fragment shader on a canvas that never unmounts, so the effect can bridge one page into the next.

Cheap where cheap works, expensive only where it has to be.

And it turns itself off

Every bit of this is gated behind prefers-reduced-motion. If your system asks for less motion, the shader layer never mounts, smooth scroll never starts, and the wordmark sits still. The interruption is a choice we offer, not one we impose.