From stage to screen — a digital portfolio for Maude von Giese

Maude von Giese is a freelance set designer and scenographer based in Zürich, working across theater, opera, film, and cultural institutions throughout the German- and French-speaking world. She needed a portfolio site that would do justice to the striking, spatial quality of her work — a digital presence as intentional and atmospheric as the stage environments she creates. Zürich-based graphic designer Lydia Perrot developed the visual concept and full design in Figma.

The UI design from Zürich-based graphic designer Lydia Perrot went far beyond a standard portfolio grid. The homepage features a scroll-driven 3D wall effect — project images rise with a steep perspective transform, creating spatial immersion — while parallax effects throughout reinforce the theatrical atmosphere. The challenge: faithfully translating this art-directed layout into a performant Webflow build while keeping the heading hierarchy semantically correct for SEO, despite typographic elements placed in unconventional positions.

The entire site was built in Webflow, with custom CSS and GSAP interactions powering the perspective-driven landing page and parallax effects. Heading tags were strategically placed to preserve a clean, crawlable document outline without compromising the visual layout. Every project, image, and text block runs on Webflow's CMS, giving Maude full autonomy to manage her portfolio without developer intervention.

• Immersive, scroll-driven 3D perspective landing page faithful to Lydia Perrot's original design vision
• Layered parallax effects throughout the site reinforcing the theatrical, spatial identity of the work
• Fully CMS-driven architecture — all projects, images, and content editable by the client directly in Webflow
• Clean semantic heading structure preserved across a non-conventional layout for strong technical SEO
• Credits: UI design — Lydia Perrot (lydiaperrot.ch); development — TONYTONY; copywriting — Helge von Giese