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Avant Garde — A Premium Automotive Service Portal | The Atom Studio
2026-06-124 min readThe Atom Studio Team
European car owners in Colombo don't have many options that feel as considered as the cars themselves. Avant Garde asked for a digital front door that matched.
The Brief
A specialist auto-service brand needed to read as premium and technical at once — not a generic book-a-service form bolted onto a stock template.
What We Built
- Scroll-driven storytelling built with GSAP ScrollTrigger, so the page moves the way a premium car brand's site should.
- Lenis-powered smooth scroll physics for a heavier, more deliberate feel than default browser scrolling.
- A Framer Motion pointer-glow interaction layer that rewards a slower, more attentive browsing pace.
Under the Hood
Built on Next.js 15 as a Booking System tier project — the interactive booking sits underneath all that motion design, not instead of it.
Avant Garde is a good example of what premium should mean in a web build: restraint and precision, not just a dark background and a serif font.