Sam Thies

Item: Sam Thies
Rating: 7.1

Australian film maker and photographer.

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7.1/10MABTU rating

DESKTOP · 1440 × 3,356/ ↗

MOBILE · 390

Section outline · Home

01heroFull-bleed video, tiny mono text
02project gridNumbered staggered thumbnails with text tiles
03footerCentred mono statement

Rating · Home

Visual design7.6

UX & clarity6.8

Originality7.4

Craft & consistency7.4

Motion5.5

Performance & a11y6.5

This page scores 7.1; the site score weights the home page double.

Main colours

Light·off white background·mono

Typography

Quadrant Text Monobody · mono · self-hosted

Stack & style

Lenis Gatsby React Swiper DatoCMS Tailwind CSS

Minimal Editorial Photography-led Hero video Preloader Smooth scroll Sticky header Transparent header

Also: Google Analytics, Netlify, Cloudflare

Design DNA

Full-bleed moody video hero (sand through hands) with a tiny centred mono tagline. Below, an off-white canvas with a six-column grid of small thumbnails in varied aspect ratios; each project opens with a numbered label (1.1-1.4) in a monospaced typewriter face, a title, discipline and a two-line description placed inside the grid like a tile. Lots of air, no rules or cards, a centred mono statement at the end.

Worth borrowing

Number projects and their frames (1.1, 1.2) so a mixed image grid reads as an index.
Put the project caption inside the grid as a text tile instead of above it.
Monospaced typewriter type at small size for all UI and captions.