# Exo Ape digital design portfolio

> A studio portfolio opens with monumental white typography over a waterfront architectural photograph, then shifts to a spacious white work section featuring staggered portrait photography and an illustrated project image.

- Kind: Website
- Live website: https://www.exoape.com
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/ref-exo-ape-d8af/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/ref-exo-ape-d8af/agent.txt
- Authorship: Not stated
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Portfolios; editorial, oversized typography, asymmetric layout, full-bleed photography, minimal, high contrast, generous whitespace
- Preview: a flip-through of inspected screenshots; open the live work to experience its motion and interactions.
- Shared by Exo Ape / Rob Smittenaar / Robbert Schefman / Ronald Gijezen / Ruud Luijten in Website: https://www.awwwards.com/sites/exo-ape
- Prompt fidelity: Unavailable in this entry. The recreation brief is written by Reference.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this website

This is a visual reference. No original creator prompt is available. The following brief was written by Reference after inspecting the work.

Pair a full-bleed contextual photograph with an exceptionally large, tightly spaced headline, keeping supporting copy in a narrower column and navigation visually quiet. Follow the dense opening with a white gallery section using unequal image widths and substantial vertical offsets rather than a uniform card grid. For a new subject, replace the architecture and portraits with relevant imagery and adjust headline line breaks so the text complements the photograph’s focal point.

1. Open the live work or source and inspect the frame images below.
2. Adapt its layout, hierarchy, palette, and interaction patterns to the user's own content and brand.
3. Compare the result against the reference. Use your own assets and credit the original creator.

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the captured walkthrough frames, not by the creator.

Polished, editorial portfolio site for a digital design studio, mixing architectural photography with fashion and portrait imagery.

- Color: Deep navy and blue tones over the hero photograph, contrasted with white backgrounds, black text, and colorful image accents.
- Type: Oversized, thin sans-serif display lettering; small, restrained navigation and body copy.
- Framing: Large headline text overlays a photograph of a domed waterfront building. Other sections use spacious white layouts, prominent imagery, and smaller text blocks.
- Structure: A photographic hero with introductory copy is followed by a work or featured-project section, arranged in an airy grid of large images and concise descriptions.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the captured walkthrough: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 2.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 4.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 6.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 8.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 10.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 12.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 14.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 16.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-exo-ape-d8af/f9.webp

## Links

- Visit site: https://www.exoape.com
- Original post: https://www.awwwards.com/sites/exo-ape
- Source and design credit: https://www.awwwards.com/sites/exo-ape