◌ Folio MMXXVII
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Creative Developer. Award-grade web experiences where typography, motion, and engineering converge.
§01 — Manifesto
I believe an interface should disappear, leaving only the canvas and the content. I build digital products at the intersection of brutalist editorial design and fluid, high-performance creative development — where typography, motion, and engineering converge into a single physical-feeling experience.
◊ Practitioner
Delowar Hossain — self-taught creative developer from Joypurhat, Bangladesh, currently an aspiring software engineer reading B.Sc. Computer Science at University of the People. Building for the web since 2023.
Direction
Massive whitespace. Strict grids. Type that demands attention. Decisions, not decoration.
Engineering
Sub-50 ms interactions. 60 fps motion. Lighthouse 95+. Craft, measured.
System
Choreographed scroll, GSAP timelines, custom shaders — repeatable, accessible, calm.
§03 — Reel · 02:17
A vertical reel of selected motion work, 2026–2027. Open it fullscreen with the play pill, or jump to any chapter.
§04 — Milestones · 2023 → 2027
§01·2023
Started the programming journey at 17. Daily HTML + CSS reps, vanilla JS experiments, and the first deployed personal site at 2023.delowarhossain.dev.
§02·2024
Picked up React, Tailwind, and the Next.js mental model. Shipped the 2024.delowarhossain.dev rebuild and the first client landing pages.
§03·2025
Went all-in on GSAP, Lenis, and raw WebGL2. Rebuilt the portfolio at 2025.delowarhossain.dev around shader-driven heroes and editorial typography.
§04·2026
Shipped the 2026.delowarhossain.dev edition — editorial-first, scroll-pinned process timelines, and the first WebGL displacement transitions.
§05·2027
Next.js 16 · React 19 · GSAP · Lenis · raw WebGL2. Open for Q1 ’27 → Q4 ’27. Two ambitious products in active development.
§05 — /now
Updated roughly once a month. The full /now page has the recent commits feed, the books I'm reading, and what's on the deck.
Open /nowBUILDING
Aura Void v2 — cursor-attractive fluid sim shader
WRITING
‘Flexible page transitions’ essay (April ’26)
READING
‘Designing Sound’ — Andy Farnell
LISTENING
Floating Points — Cascade
Selected Works
Years Coding
Portfolios Shipped
Avg. Lighthouse
§06 — Testimonials
“Delowar turned a vague brief into a site that won us an Awwwards mention in its first week. His command of motion and editorial restraint is unmatched.”
Nora Vásquez
Head of Brand, Meridian Studio
“Working with Delowar felt like pairing with someone who speaks design and engineering at native fluency. Our conversion rate jumped 34% after the redesign.”
Aiden Park
Co-Founder & CEO, Luminary AI
“He shipped a WebGL hero, a full design system, and a CMS integration — in six weeks. The codebase was the cleanest handoff I've ever received.”
Priya Shankar
Engineering Lead, Sonder Health
“Every detail — from scroll easing to kerning — was intentional. The result felt like a physical object, not a website.”
Marcus Lindqvist
Creative Director, Atelier Nord
A short list of work that has been recognised by international design and engineering juries — beyond the dopamine, validation that the craft is travelling.
For Aura Void — a design language merging editorial restraint, technical depth, and interactive storytelling.
For Terminal State — combining editorial product structure with expressive frontend craft and performance discipline.
Selected for interface precision, calm complexity, and a production-friendly AI workflow experience.
Ranked for turning a niche creative utility into a sharp, highly shareable product workflow.
§08 — Expertise
01
Pushing the boundaries of the browser. Custom 3D environments, complex shader materials, and fluid particle systems that respond to interaction with microscopic precision.
02
Crafting minimalist, intuitive interfaces that prioritise content and motion. Rigid grids and editorial whitespace to frame digital narratives effectively.
03
Defining the visual language. From typography selection to color grading and motion choreography, every pixel aligns with the core brand identity.
04
Production-grade systems with AI integration. Full-stack architecture, edge deployments, real-time pipelines, and pragmatic dev-ex.
Process · Discovery → Design → Prototype → Production
View ServicesUnderstand narrative constraints. Map the audience, the systems, and the technical envelope before a single pixel.
Deliverables
Tools
Phase 1 of 4
Phase I · Discovery · 1–2 weeks · 01 / 04
◊ §12 — Portfolios
The studio rebuilds its portfolio from scratch every year — a different codename, a different visual register, a different idea about what a portfolio should be. 5 editions and counting, each one still live at its own subdomain.
Editorial newsroom architecture. WebGL hero, Lenis-smoothed scroll, scroll-driven process timeline, 30 live lab experiments. Built for sub-100ms interaction, AA contrast, and dual JSON-LD + AI-engine surfaces.
Single-page editorial micro-folio. Variable-font scroll, three case studies, an inline showreel. Pruned to the bare essentials between two larger systems.
Monolith design-system showcase. Dark UI, dense data, terminal aesthetics. Built around a colour-token system, a custom kinetic cursor and an audio-reactive prelude.
Experimental folio leaning hard on Three.js: GPU particles, post-processing chain, a custom shader-based page transition. Optimised for desktop showpiece browsing.
§10 — Journal
§11 — Beyond Home
Identity
Practice
