Site of the Day Teardowns
This section covers selected Awwwards Sites of the Day and FWA winners, from FWA of the Day to the new FWA Canon. Each report examines the concept, visual design, interaction and front-end build behind the award, with performance and asset data measured in a real browser.
- Reports
- 14
- Awwwards
- 10
- FWA
- 14
- Latest
- 2026.10.12
Sleep Well Creative
Sleep Well Creative is a web sleep guide for creative people by the designer Victor Costa. The idea for the guide came from too many nights debugging code at 3 a.m., and Costa wanted it to remind designers and developers that creativity comes from rest, not from coffee and late nights. The site turns the science of sleep into a 3D picture book read by scrolling. Each chapter makes a point and then a scene acts out one bad habit, so the information reads like a journey.
Jesper Landberg
This is the portfolio of Jesper Landberg, a freelance front-end developer who usually works on projects for international studios, building from a design partner's files. The portfolio has to show those studios two things: what Landberg has built, and how far Landberg can push a web page. Landberg therefore keeps the content very short and turns the whole page into a material that bends, bulges under the cursor and can be swallowed by a black hole, with the eight featured projects forming one curved ribbon.
Heron AI
Heron AI is the website the design company Bearplus made for an invented AI assistant, and Bearplus uses it to show what it can do. In the story, the assistant lives inside architectural design software and checks architects' drawings against the building code. Because it has no physical form and nothing to photograph, Bearplus built the whole site as an architectural drawing on which visitors try reviewing a drawing for themselves. When a visitor on the home page drags a box around a problem on a house, a card pops up naming the rule it breaks. In this way the visitor has already done the job Heron is meant to do for architects.
Léo Parpeix - Portfolio 2026
This is the personal portfolio of Léo Parpeix, a French art director and interactive designer. Most of the projects Parpeix has worked on carry the names of the companies behind them, so the portfolio has to show which part Parpeix personally did inside those companies' large teams. Parpeix wanted visitors to understand within 10 seconds what the designer can do, so Parpeix made the site's first view a 3D sculptor's workshop, with a moustached plaster daisy and its design drawing in the same frame. The daisy stands for Parpeix's character and way of working, and it runs through the whole site.
Lidar Drone Scanning
Lidar Drone Scanning is an official site for a drone that does not exist, made by the Polish studio Riotters. Riotters' calling card is making complex products easy to understand, and this site is a tech demo built to prove the studio can do that. The studio invented Aevion, a lidar inspection drone brand, and modelled the site on real product sites, presenting the drone from its airframe and specs to its data-processing software. The most convincing part is the 3D terrain map at the end, where each marker the visitor opens brings up a panel that reads like a real inspection report.
Gil Huybrecht
This is the portfolio of Gil Huybrecht, a freelance designer and art director from Belgium. It is written for potential clients, so availability, services and awards come on the first screen. The 19 projects appear as a wall of screenshots on black, all drawn on one full-screen canvas (a part of the page set aside for drawing images), so an image can fly straight from the grid into an open project. A switch in the bottom right corner lets visitors turn the whole site into a Star Wars edition.
The Singularity
The Singularity is the campaign site that the website builder Squarespace made for its 2023 Super Bowl ad. The ad's joke goes back to the way the founder often introduced the company in its early days, as "a website that makes websites". An ad can only let viewers hear that line, while this site lets them try out a website that makes websites. In the corner of the screen sits a 3D likeness of the ad's star, Adam Driver, and each click on it makes Adam say "website" and spit out a real website template. In this way the ad's joke becomes a toy.
illoca
This is the launch site the California startup illoca made for its first product, Tracing Paper. Tracing Paper is an AI design tool that generates editable floor plans and 3D models from an architect's sketches and a line of text. Because illoca's whole brand identity starts from paper, the site's main picture is an architect's desk rather than the software's interface. The site acts out the product's five features as an architect's path from a first sketch to a whole building, and as visitors scroll down, the sketch on the desk grows step by step into the building.
Maria Vasilyeva Portfolio
Maria Vasilyeva Portfolio is the personal portfolio of the designer Maria Vasilyeva, and its job is to show the work and make people remember who made it. The site takes its inspiration from music and sound, with each image a note and each project a stretch of melody. The designer built this metaphor straight into the interface. The home page is a musical staff that a playhead crosses as the visitor scrolls, and with sound on, the site plays a note for every thumbnail the cursor brushes.
The Tuscan Journey Begins
The Tuscan Journey Begins is an interactive site that Weekend Max Mara, a Max Mara line, launched for its Pasticcino bag. The bag has a World Tour series, and at every stop local makers produce its fabric and fittings. This site covers the Italian stop, made for the bag's tenth anniversary. The Florentine studio MONOGRID painted the three Tuscan crafts of this stop as a train journey in oils. At each stop the visitor does one step of the work for the makers, and the bag only appears whole at the last stop.