BANYAN STUDIO – Template for Creative Digital Studios

Banyan Studio is a professional, high-performance template designed for creative studios, design agencies, and digital teams looking to stand out with a sophisticated web presence. The project combines the speed of Astro 5 with professional-grade animations powered by GSAP, delivering a dark, modern, and completely fluid visual experience.

The core focus of the project is motion as a design language: every section comes to life through scroll-triggers, sticky card stacking, and interactive work process panels — all orchestrated with precision to communicate the premium identity of a creative studio.

Technical Excellence

Banyan Studio is a production-ready full-stack solution:

• Astro 5 + TypeScript: SSR architecture with static generation and server-side rendering, fully typed throughout.
• Tailwind CSS v4: CSS-first engine with Tailwind’s latest design system for efficient utility-based styling.
• GSAP 3.14 + ScrollTrigger: Timeline animations, sticky card stacking, and scroll-triggered process panels.
• Lenis 1.3: Ultra-smooth scrolling integrated at the layout level for a premium experience across the entire template.
• Server Actions + Zod: Contact form with robust server-side validation.
• Resend API: Professional and reliable email delivery integration.
• Astro Content Collections: Project and legal page management with Zod-validated schemas.
• Centralized Content: All text managed from labels.ts for easy maintenance and future translations.

Key Features

• Optimized Performance: Minimal load times thanks to Astro’s island architecture and Sharp image processing.
• Dark & Accessible Design: Contemporary UI with vibrant accent colors, fully responsive and WCAG-compliant.
• Advanced Animations: Sticky project card stacking, scroll-triggered navbar shrink, fullscreen menu, and interactive work process panels.
• Backend Ready to Use: Functional contact system with rate limiting via Upstash Redis.
• Complete SEO: Dynamic meta tags, Open Graph, automatic sitemap, and robots.txt configured out of the box.

Included Pages

Banyan Studio provides a complete structure for a creative digital studio:

Home (/)

• Hero section with animated headline.
• Studio description and services showcase with numbered cards.
• “Why Choose Us” section with highlighted feature cards.
• Featured projects with sticky stacking animation on desktop.
• Client testimonials and strategic CTA banner.

Works (/works)

• Full portfolio grid with project cards.
• Individual detail pages (/works/[slug]) with a two-column layout and a “More Works” section.

Studio (/studio)

• Hero with studio overview and mission statement.
• Interactive work process panels with scroll-driven animations.
• Team member profiles with social media links.

Contact (/contact)

• Complete contact information (address, email, phone).
• Full-stack form with real-time validation.
• FAQ section with smooth accordions.

Legal & Utilities

• Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Licensing, and a custom 404 page.

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Developer Experience (DX)

The project was built with scalability and long-term maintainability in mind:

• Modular Architecture: Clear separation between common, UI, and page section components, organized in common/, ui/, and sections/ layers.
• Typed Configuration: Config files in src/config/ for services, projects, team, and navigation — all powered by TypeScript.
• Global Theme System: Easy customization of colors, typography, and spacing via CSS variables in global.css.
• Premium Typography: Tanker and Clash Grotesk fonts included and configured at the theme level with Tailwind.
• SSR-Safe Animations: Client guards, cleanup via gsap.context(), and re-initialization on page transitions to prevent flickering.
• Production Ready: Pre-configured with the Vercel adapter for deployment with edge functions.

Summary

Banyan Studio is a robust technical foundation and visually sophisticated starting point for any creative digital studio. It perfectly balances the speed of a static site with the power of a functional backend, offering a premium launchpad for agencies and studios that want to showcase their technical depth and aesthetic sensibility from day one.