Case study - Japanese Culture Festival website and content system

The solution

• Design built on the poster's character: we built the site's hero section straight from the actual festival poster — instead of a generic, forgettable template, it uses a large red circle, vertical Japanese characters, and three dancer illustrations with a sense of depth.
• A content system built from raw material: we reviewed and organized information from dozens of participants — photos, PDF submissions, and descriptions — and structured it into separate page templates for workshops, food vendors, and dance performances, each with full photo galleries.
• Animation without overload: the homepage comes alive through a coordinated opening animation, and content blocks reveal themselves as you scroll — motion with purpose, not just a technical showcase.
• Registration kept separate: for the ticketed workshops we integrated a registration link, clearly separated from the open, walk-in activities in shared spaces.
• Static deployment, no server: since the site doesn't need real-time data processing, we generated it as fully static — a faster, cheaper, and safer choice than a standard server setup.

Results

Out of scattered, unstructured material came a smoothly running website with eleven workshop pages, four food vendor pages, and two dance performance pages — all using real photos and descriptions, not placeholder text. The site launched successfully and is live at japonukulturosfestivalis.lt.

Work done and metrics

Work done: design, full-stack development, content strategy, CMS build, animation, deployment.