Site of the Day Teardowns
This archive documents every Awwwards and FWA Site of the Day with an in-depth teardown. 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
- 65
- Awwwards
- 36
- FWA
- 44
- Latest
- 2026.10.10
Thomas Gertenbach Portfolio
Thomas Gertenbach has turned an entire portfolio into one table seen from directly above. The plaster top is cracked and dappled with leaf shadows, each of the six projects is a polaroid, and a visitor can pick one up and throw it onto another. When a visitor drops a photo into the recess at the bottom right, the other photos blow aside and an unseen projector casts that project's screen recordings onto the plaster. Holding the mouse down anywhere on the table also takes a photo of it, which develops a few seconds later into a new polaroid lying among the projects.
Experience FunTech Creativity
FunTech has turned its 2026 showreel film, HELLO, WORLD., into a website that visitors have to play with their own hands to see the rest of. Ten real-time 3D scenes follow one another, and each one leaves the visitor a job to do. The visitor switches the mascot Fun-kun through layer after layer of rendering, calls down lightning, walks between statues of the whole staff and knocks on an old computer's screen until Fun-kun breaks out. Only when one job is done does the site move on to the next scene.
Maria Vasilyeva Portfolio
Maria Vasilyeva's portfolio writes the whole website as a musical score and then annotates that score by hand. When a visitor scrolls, a playhead sweeps across the seven staff lines of the home page, and whichever project it reaches has its pictures jump up off the line into a pile. In the menu, the four words NOTES, MELODY, OVERTURE and JAZZ are each crossed out with a handwritten scribble, with what they really mean written in beside them. One switch turns this handwritten layer off, and when it goes, the seven staff lines go with it.
1minus1
1minus1 is an agency that makes websites, brands and marketing for the games industry, and it has built its own new website to look like a game. Every large word on the page is pixel type made of blocks, acid green on deep purple, like the start-up screen of an old console. 1minus1 even turned its error page into a small game, in which visitors rub out a 404 made of over two hundred blocks one square at a time with the cursor, against a timer and a leaderboard.
Odyssée
Odyssée is the website of an aesthetic medicine clinic in Sydney, and it keeps its words small and its skin enormous. The largest line of type on the home page is only a little over three times the size of the body text, and the opening screen carries a single small tagline. Lips, eyes and cheeks, meanwhile, fill the whole screen or half of it again and again, close enough to show the direction of an eyebrow and the texture of the skin. There are no prices on the site and no before and after photos, so the clinic leaves almost everything it has to say to the skin itself.
Nocturnal Dream
Nocturnal Dream turns a lucid dream into a zoom that never stops. As visitors scroll, the camera pulls back from a crow by a lake into a church, slips through a keyhole onto a street, rises over a city and keeps shrinking into the planet, an atom and a cell. Once visitors scroll past the cell, the camera flies out of the crow's eye and back to the lake, so the dream has no end. Everything along the way is a black line drawing on cream paper, and every stage carries one line of big type stuck on like a sticker, speaking to the dreamer.
twks
The twks website strips its own interface down to little more than black, white and a single typeface, hands the colour over to its clients' work, and says nothing of its own on the opening screen apart from the navigation. Where twks really spends its effort is the moment a visitor gets in touch. Opening the contact entry shows whether the Geneva office is open right now, what time it is there and how warm it is outside. One more click, and a project director called Marie starts asking about the visitor's project one message at a time, as if in a chat.
Lidar Drone Scanning
Lidar Drone Scanning is the official website of a drone that does not exist. The Polish studio Riotters invented a LiDAR inspection drone brand called Aevion, then built its site the way real product sites are built, from the hovering drone and the spec sheet all the way to the data software. The most convincing part comes at the end, a 3D terrain map where a visitor clicks a point, the camera flies to it and a panel with a risk level and a confidence score opens, like a real inspection report.
INHERITED
On its website, the deathcore band INHERITED splits its own name into four pieces and wedges them between the bodies of its three members, as if the three of them were holding the name apart. Every large headline on the page keeps trembling slightly, and now and then its edges tear open in a thin line, like a videotape with a bad signal. The site barely relies on words, since a red wall, black clothes and a series of faces shot very close up are all the introduction the band gives its visitors.
Santioni Spirits
Santioni Spirits has not put its new drinks on sale yet, so its website first tells a comic book story in which a saint crosses a wasteland, enters a hall of red columns and drinks a glass. Halfway through, the visitor has to pick one of three bottles for him. The colour they pick takes over the rest of the story, so the drink being poured, the saint's robe and the petals around him all turn that colour, and the narrator names the matching ingredients.
EDOLUS
The EDOLUS website introduces an artificial intelligence infrastructure company through seven 3D scenes that flow into one another. The camera starts at a satellite in Earth orbit, drops into a desert city, dives into a chip inside a server room and ends up behind a car. Scrolling through it feels like watching a product launch film whose pace the visitor controls, and the music changes its arrangement with every scene. Only at the very end does the screen say Edolus never existed, and the company turns out to have been made up from the start.