Headless WordPress and Nuxt
website for Savage Studio.

The client

Savage Studio is a design-led digital brand agency. Nicolai Qvindbjerg runs the studio, and we have worked together on several product and marketing builds, including Nyx and Hydr on this site.

Client website

The problem

The studio needed a new public site that reflected the quality of their client work, not a template that undercut the pitch before a prospect opened a case study.

Nicolai delivered the design and would own day-to-day publishing. WordPress was a firm requirement: he already knew the editor and did not want a CMS the studio would have to learn from scratch.

The front end still had to feel fast on first load, read well to search engines, and stay faithful to the mockups, typography, spacing and motion included.

What I did

WordPress runs as a headless content API. Cases, copy, and campaign pages are authored in the familiar admin; the public site never loads a theme or plugin front end.

Nuxt serves the visitor experience: server-rendered Vue with SASS for layout and detail work. Content is fetched over the REST API so each route can be tuned for the performance and SEO it needs.

The split kept editorial control with the studio and let me focus the front end on rendering Nicolai's design faithfully.

Results

The studio could publish and update marketing content without a deploy for every text change. WordPress stayed the source of truth they already trusted.

The decoupled stack gave a lighter public footprint than a traditional theme-and-plugins setup, with server rendering for pages that benefit from search visibility.

Nicolai's design language carried through in production. The site reads as part of the same craft clients see in Savage Studio's portfolio work.

The build is an example of my Vue and Nuxt development work, and the design-faithful front end reflects my frontend development service.