We buildrarewebsites.
2004 Labs is an independent studio designing and engineering cinematic, high-performance websites for brands that refuse the ordinary.
Proof,not promises.
One flagship, art-directed and engineered end-to-end. Look closely — the craft is the pitch.
A cinematic concept flagship for a fictional luxury fashion house — art-directed, animated, and engineered end-to-end. A study in how restraint, type and motion make the web feel expensive.
What Ibuild.
Brand sites
Flagship websites, lookbooks and campaigns that make a brand feel inevitable — art-directed down to the last hairline.
Commerce
Storefronts engineered to sell: fast, tactile, and built to turn browsers into buyers without ever feeling like a template.
Motion & WebGL
Cinematic scroll, 3D, custom cursors and micro-interactions — the difference between a page and an experience.
Engineering
Production Next.js: accessible, SEO-ready, statically fast, and maintainable long after launch day.
How Iwork.
Discover
We start with your brand, your audience and the one thing this site has to achieve. No templates, no assumptions — a clear picture of what 'rare' means for you.
Design
Art direction first: type, palette, grid and a motion language, prototyped until the feel is undeniable. You approve the experience before a single line ships.
Build
Production Next.js, engineered to the same standard it's designed to — accessible, responsive, fast, and ready for the real world on day one.
Launch & evolve
We ship, measure and refine. The site is a living thing; I stay close to keep it sharp as the brand grows.
I'mSiddhartha.
A designer and engineer who builds for brands that want to feel rare. 2004 Labs is my studio — the name is the year I was born; the work is everything I've taught myself since.
It's a deliberately small practice, which means art direction and engineering never get lost in a handoff between teams. They're the same pair of hands, start to finish.
I care about the things most people scroll past — the weight of a transition, the rhythm of a grid, the half-second a page takes to feel alive. That obsession is the product.
Let's buildsomething rare.
Tell me about the brand and what it needs to do. A 30-minute call, no pitch — just whether we're a fit.