Web design & branding · Los Angeles · 34.05°N

Brands that catch the light.

Most LA studios sell you sunshine. We engineer the whole sky. LA Light Studios designs brand identities and builds fast websites that move — and this page is the portfolio.

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What we do

Five disciplines, one obsession with light.

A Los Angeles web design and branding studio. Strategy, identity, and engineering under one roof — built to ship and built to move.

01Brand strategyPositioning, naming, and a story sharp enough to cut through an LA-sized market.
02Identity designLogos, type systems, and color built for screens first, motion always.
03Web & productCustom front-end engineering. No page builders, no template lag — sub-second loads.
04Motion & 3DInteraction design, scroll choreography, WebGL — the dynamics you're looking at now.
05GrowthSEO, content, and analytics wired in from day one — measured, not guessed.
Live samples

Don't take our word. Open one.

Self-initiated concept builds — real, hand-coded sites that open and run right here in the page. Click in.

E-commerce

Tidal*

A swimwear storefront that recolors itself as you shop — no theme, no plugins.

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Spirits

Otoño*

A mezcal brand world with an age gate and a glass that fills as you scroll.

Open live ↗
Climate / SaaS

Voltaic*

A solar calculator that turns your roof and power bill into a live savings estimate.

Open live ↗

* Original concept builds — full sites we designed and coded ourselves to show range, not client engagements. When we publish real client work, we anonymize it only with the client's permission.

Case studies

The thinking behind each build.

No borrowed logos, no invented numbers. Just the brief we set ourselves and how we solved it — open the live build from any row.

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Concept · E-commerce

Tidal*

The brief. A swimwear label that feels like the ocean at noon, with a storefront that sells without a single dropdown. The move. One hand-coded page where color swatches re-tint the hero in real time and the bag pops as you add — proof that DTC doesn't need a heavy theme to feel rich.
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Concept · Spirits

Otoño*

The brief. A small-batch mezcal whose site should pour like the bottle and feel like dusk in Oaxaca. The move. An age gate as the opening micro-interaction, then scroll choreography that fills a glass as you read — atmosphere first, on a sub-second load.
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Concept · Climate / SaaS

Voltaic*

The brief. A solar startup that needs to turn a confusing decision into a number you can feel in ten seconds. The move. A live-counting hero and a two-slider calculator that recomputes the savings estimate as you drag — here, the interaction is the pitch.

* Original concept builds, not client engagements — created by LA Light Studios to demonstrate range. Real client work is shown only with permission and anonymized when required.

60fps
Motion capped at sixty frames — smooth, never janky.
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Hand-coded. No page builder, no template lag.
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Plugins quietly slowing your pages down.
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Studio doing strategy, design, and engineering.
How it works

Three moves. No lemonade required.

01 / ORIENT

Find the angle

We study your market, your buyers, and the competition until the positioning is obvious. You leave the first week knowing exactly what you stand for.

02 / COMPOSE

Build the identity

Name, type, color, voice, and the interface system — designed together so the brand and the website are one object, not two.

03 / ILLUMINATE

Ship it moving

Hand-coded, fast, and alive. We launch, wire up analytics, and tune the motion until the whole thing feels lit from inside.

Start a project

Let's catch the light.

Tell us what you're building. We reply within a day — usually with questions sharper than a sales pitch.