Sylvain Girard

Design Engineer

Melbourne, Australia

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Hi, I'm Sylvain Girard — a Design Engineer blending systems thinking, frontend craft, and motion detail to build cohesive brand and product experiences. I build token-driven design systems and interfaces that bring clarity, consistency, and emotion across platforms — from Webflow marketing sites to AI-enabled tools. Currently a Senior Digital Designer at IGNITE — Webflow sites and AI tools for clients and the internal team. Alongside this, freelance 3D and motion work brings products to life for fashion brands.

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Journal

  1. CSS · Layout

    Content that sizes itself

  2. CSS · Components

    Querying a component state

  3. CSS · Navigation

    Navigation that follows the scroll

  4. CSS · Positioning

    Anchored content that knows when to hide

  5. CSS · Values

    Branching and progress in CSS

  6. CSS · Patterns

    Counting siblings in CSS

  7. CSS · Patterns

    Randomness in CSS

  8. CSS · Scrolling

    A stateful scroll surface

  9. CSS · HTML

    Typed HTML attributes in CSS

  10. CSS · Layout

    Layout primitives in CSS

  11. CSS · Colour

    Colour relationships in CSS

  12. CSS · Controls

    Styling a native select

  13. CSS · Components

    Shapes and CSS functions

  14. CSS · Interaction

    Placement and scoped transitions

  15. CSS · Colour

    A colour axis with contrast

  16. CSS · Geometry

    Geometry with CSS

  17. CSS · Shape

    Shaping corners with superellipses

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Work

  1. 36 Days of Type
  2. Image Suite
  3. 3D Work

Theme

CSS · Layout

Content that sizes itself

Let an input grow with its text, then let columns find another row when they overflow.

Journal
CSS · Components

Querying a component state

Use a custom property as component data, then style descendants with a container style query.

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CSS · Navigation

Navigation that follows the scroll

Keep a section link current as its target moves through a scroll container.

Journal
CSS · Positioning

Anchored content that knows when to hide

Move a tooltip’s anchor, let placement adapt, and hide it when the anchor leaves view.

Journal
CSS · Values

Branching and progress in CSS

Choose a state and move a value through a range with CSS-native expressions.

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CSS · Patterns

Counting siblings in CSS

Use sibling position and count to space a repeated pattern.

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CSS · Patterns

Randomness in CSS

Give repeated marks a little variation with a random angle.

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CSS · Scrolling

A stateful scroll surface

Let a snapped carousel card recognise and style its active state.

Journal
CSS · HTML

Typed HTML attributes in CSS

Read a numeric HTML attribute as a CSS length, with an explicit fallback for invalid input.

Journal
CSS · Layout

Layout primitives in CSS

Decorated gaps and reading order. Let layout describe how a composition should be read.

Journal
CSS · Colour

Colour relationships in CSS

Build related surfaces and readable text from one base colour.

Journal
CSS · Controls

Styling a native select

Give a native picker a designed surface while keeping its keyboard behaviour.

Journal
CSS · Components

Shapes and CSS functions

Give a repeated calculation a name, then let borders follow a path.

Journal
CSS · Interaction

Placement and scoped transitions

Let fallback placement reshape its detail and keep repeated transition names local.

Journal
CSS · Colour

A colour axis with contrast

Change one base colour while surfaces, text and an accent follow different rules.

Journal
CSS · Geometry

Geometry with CSS

Directions, orbits and pointing lines. Three ways to describe position using CSS functions.

Journal
CSS · Shape

Shaping corners with superellipses

The same radius, a different character. Explore the curve between a bevel and a squircle.

Journal
Interactive 3D archive

36 Days of Type

Type a letter or number to explore an archive of rendered characters, then arrange them into a visual sentence.

Work
Living reference

Design System

Explore the foundations, controls and theme relationships behind this site.

Work
Image workflow

Image Suite

A compact node canvas for connecting references, prompts and image operations.

Work
Information architecture

Sitemap

Shape a site’s structure, plan its content and compare the proposed pages with the original.

Work
Tour of Shanghai — Le Coq SportifTour of Shanghai — 3D artwork 1Philautia Opus — 3D artwork 1PERMU x Amorphous — 3D artwork 1Year of the Rabbit — 3D artwork 1Year of the RabbitTour of Shanghai — 3D artwork 2Year of the Dragon — 3D artwork 1Cloud Dragon — Beaubnana
3D WorkWork
Terracotta ceramic vase with a circular handle on a warm ivory background.
Ceramic vaseImage Suite
Terracotta vase on a travertine plinth, with a curved paper backdrop and an aluminium sphere in warm sunlight.
Studio studyImage Suite