Media · Worldwide
Telos Media
A full rebuild for an education company that builds character-driven worlds, not just YouTube channels.
- Client
- Telos Media
- Industry
- Media
- Location
- Worldwide
- Services
- Website redesign, Development, Custom CMS, Deployment
- Role
- Design, development, CMS and deployment
- Year
- 2026
The problem
A site that undersold the company
Sponsors, press and job candidates all judge a company by its site first, and the old one read as a content farm. The team also couldn't update anything themselves, so every launch, hire or press mention had to go through a developer.
3.5B+
views across the brands
16.5M+
subscribers
7
full-screen brand worlds
9
sections in the homepage story
Overview
An education media company behind channels like SolarBalls and Mr. Spherical. We rebuilt their website from scratch and built a private CMS, so the team runs the site without a developer.
- 7 brand worlds, one story
- Staff update the site themselves
- Static-prerendered for speed
What the site had to do
Lead with the mission
Show an education business with a point of view, not a list of channels.
Give every audience a door
Sponsors, press and candidates each need somewhere obvious to land.
Hand over the keys
Staff update launches, hires and press themselves, without a developer.
Telos Media
What we built
A homepage told as a story
Nine sections, opening on an ambient hero film and moving through scale, philosophy, brands, impact, partners and team.
Channel-flip brand showcase
Visitors change channels through the brands like on a TV, and each one plays its own preview loop.
Seven brand worlds
Each brand gets a full screen with its own accent colour, video and outbound link, alternating left and right as you scroll.
A custom CMS at /admin
Staff edit homepage stats, brands with drag-style reordering, partner logos, launches, team and press, and upload media.
Version history with rollback
Every save snapshots the previous content first. If the snapshot fails, the save is refused, so an edit can't wipe anything out.
Partnerships, Impact, Press and Careers
Careers routes through Breezy HR, and the store bridges to SolarBalls merch.
Every screen.Every size.
Desktop
Phone
Telos Media
Under the hood
- 01
Signed sessions expire after 12 hours, sign-out revokes every session, logins are rate-limited by IP, and the site fails closed if a secret is missing.
- 02
Public media and private CMS data sit in separate Blob stores, so unpublished launches are never exposed.
- 03
Pages are static-prerendered, with a sitemap, robots.txt, a generated Open Graph image, a web manifest, and custom error and 404 pages.
- 04
Scroll animations use spring easing and respect reduced-motion settings.
- 05
Near-black and navy with royal blue and a gold accent, Fraunces for headlines and Geist for body, over gradient meshes with film grain.
For the client
What this means for the client
- A flagship site that shows the company's real size and mission
- Sponsors and press land on the business, not a channel list
- The team updates launches, hires and press without a developer
- Every edit is recoverable, so nobody fears the CMS
Built with
Before and after
The old Telos site on the left, the redesign on the right.
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