Independent web studio — working worldwide
Websites that move
like silk.
Silkern designs and builds cinematic, scroll-driven websites — custom code, no templates, engineered to feel effortless.
Silkern
Your story deserves this treatment.
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Chapter 01 — The anatomy
Every website is four crafts.
Scroll to take one apart.
Your story opens here.
Story — the words that sell while you sleepStory, design, motion, code — most agencies split them across four desks. Here one pair of hands masters all four, so nothing is lost in the seams. That's the road
Chapter 02 — The standards
Rules we don't bend
Custom code only
No templates, no page builders. Every line is written for your site — GSAP, Lenis and vanilla JavaScript, nothing you don't need.
Performance is design
Fast loads and 60fps motion are part of the definition of done — never an upgrade, never an afterthought.
One pair of hands
Designed and built end to end by the founder. Direct access, no handoffs, one flagship project in production at a time.
Chapter 03 — The count
Honest numbers only
Chapter 04 — The evidence
Real, live, in production
Chapter 05 — The offer
Four ways to work together
The Feature
Your brand told as a scroll-driven film — the flagship. Five to eight scenes, the full signature kit.
The Short
A one-page scroll story for a launch, campaign or announcement — weeks, not months.
The Director's Cut
The Feature with working machinery behind it — online ordering, multilingual content, admin. Built on Laravel.
Second Unit
White-label creative development for agencies — you direct, we make it move. NDA-friendly, credit optional.
Chapter 06 — Touch the craft
Feel the signature kit
Magnetic detail
Buttons lean toward your cursor — fourteen pixels of quiet gravity. Try it.
Self-drawing lines
Hover the tile and the line draws itself. On a real page it draws as you scroll.
Frame-scrubbed film
Slide your cursor — you are the timeline. The hero above runs on this exact engine.
Chapter 07 — The road
Four stages, no mystery
Discovery
One call, honest scoping, a fixed-fee proposal. The €900 Design Sprint adds a working animated hero concept before you commit.
Design
The design system first, then the scenes. Motion is designed together with the layout — never bolted on after.
Build
Custom code on a live staging URL you can open any day and watch evolve, week by week.
Launch & beyond
Performance pass, analytics, thirty days of included care — then a monthly plan if you want a partner, not a vendor.
For agencies
Second Unit — white-label creative development
Your design, our motion engineering. Figma in, GSAP-grade scroll choreography out — under NDA, with or without credit.
From the founder
Boarding school in Switzerland. Finance in London. Then code took over — eleven years of building for other people's names. Silkern is the first thing that carries mine. I design and build every project myself, one at a time, and I would rather turn work away than ship something that doesn't glide.
— K., founder
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Let's make something that moves.
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