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Red Coffee Club

Sponsors used to get a PDF. Now they get a link.

RED Coffee Club runs AeroPress Margarita, the regional qualifier for Venezuela’s national championship. Days before its second edition they asked for a website to present the event, sign up baristas and win sponsors. We designed and built it in one week.

The Red Coffee Club website on a MacBook Pro, on a deep red studio background
Client
RED Coffee Club · Isla Margarita
Scope
Concept, web design, 3D, interaction, development
Stack
Astro · Three.js · GSAP · Matter.js
Timeline
7–14 September 2026 · one week
The AeroPress Margarita homepage on a Pro Display XDR

Before

A 21-page PDF did the selling.

The dossier had everything: the team, the event and four sponsorship plans. But it read like a slideshow and never carried the energy of a coffee championship by the sea.

Cover of the Alianza RED dossier: AeroPress Margarita, Regional Oriente
Dossier page 2
Dossier page 5
Dossier page 6
Dossier page 10, a sponsorship plan
Dossier page 13, a sponsorship plan
Dossier page 21, contact

The original dossier: 21 slides, 1440 × 810.

Timeline

The idea came late. The bar stayed high.

The website was decided days before the championship. From the first commit to launch it took one week, and it went live eleven days before the event.

September 2026

Design and build · 14 commits

  • Shared on Instagram · 11 Sep
  • Live · 14 Sep
  • Event day
days from first commit to launch
7
days live before the championship
11
people: one developer, one designer
2

Audiences

One page, four readers.

Each audience arrives looking for something different. The page answers all four in the same scroll, and every one of them ends in a conversation.

01

Brands

Want to know if the event is worth their name.

The championship, the team, sponsor plans, the 26-brand wall.

02

Baristas

Need the date, the place and how to compete.

22 September, Rancho Victorio, three places in the national final.

03

Public

Want a reason to come.

Free entry, 150 people, coffee and the sea.

04

The club

Needs one link that speaks for them.

A page they can send instead of the PDF.

The winners of AeroPress Margarita 2026 holding their prizes
Margarita22 September 2026 · Rancho Victorio, Guarame

The page

Thirteen sections, one scroll.

The coast and the AeroPress, the four chapters, the island, the team, merch, sponsors, plans and FAQ. On mobile, each section keeps its place in the story.

The whole redcoffee.club homepage on desktop, from the hero to the footer

Jump to a section of the page

Mobile hero: AeroPress Margarita, Regional Oriente
01 · Hero
Mobile chapter: a small revolution
02 · The four chapters
Mobile section: the strength of the network, the team
03 · The team
Mobile merch section with the event T-shirt
04 · Merch
Mobile sponsors wall with partner logos
05 · Sponsors

3D

An AeroPress modeled in code.

We didn’t download a model: we built it in Three.js. That put the RED logo and its 1–4 marks on the chamber and gave us control of every part, for the scroll and for the coffee game.

  1. 01

    Plunger

    Hollow tube, palm grip and silicone piston with its sealing lip.

  2. 03

    Paper microfilter

    A separate disc, so it can drop into place on its own.

The AeroPress taken apart: plunger, chamber, paper microfilter and filter cap
  1. 02

    Chamber

    Brewing chamber with the RED Coffee Club logo and the 1–4 marks.

  2. 04

    Filter cap

    56 grip ridges and 37 open holes, modeled one by one.

parts that move on their own
4
canvas shared by the journey and the brew table
1
exported from the code for other uses
GLB

Storytelling

Four chapters, one origin story.

The AeroPress comes apart as you scroll, across four chapters, on a single 3D canvas. Each chapter takes the full screen and is told with a single line.

Chapter 1 of the website: a small revolution, the AeroPress assembled over the coast
01 · A small revolution
Chapter 2 of the website: the power of your gesture, the plunger rising
02 · The power of your gesture
Chapter 3 of the website: the small changes everything, the parts floating apart
03 · The small changes everything
Chapter 4 of the website: your recipe, your character, the AeroPress taken apart with its labels
04 · Your recipe, your character

Interactive

Brew your own coffee, in the browser.

A six-step game built on the same 3D AeroPress: set it up, add the coffee, pour, stir, press, serve. It is the part people screenshot and share.

The brew table in the browser: pressing the AeroPress slowly
  1. 01Set up the table
  2. 02Assemble the AeroPress
  3. 03Pour the water
  4. 04Let it bloom
  5. 05Press slowly
  6. 06Serve
Step: the empty table
Step: assembling the AeroPress
Step: the water poured
Step: pouring the water
Step: the coffee extracted
The full brew, on a loop

First screen

Everything that matters, before the first scroll.

Name, date, place and one way in. The AeroPress turns as you move, and a handwritten line gives it the voice of the club.

The homepage hero of redcoffee.club with four numbered notes
  1. 01

    Name and edition

    Set in the serif of the brand, nothing else competes with it.

  2. 02

    Date and venue

    22 September, Rancho Victorio. Answered in the first second.

  3. 03

    3D AeroPress

    Modeled in code with the RED logo. Follows the cursor.

  4. 04

    One call to action

    «Be part of it» opens the plans. One button, one decision.

Conversion

From a link to a conversation, in four taps.

The club sends one link. A brand reads the story, picks a plan and lands in WhatsApp with the message already written.

Step 1 on mobile: the hero
01Opens the linkThe story and the date, on the phone.
Step 2 on mobile: the sponsors wall
02Sees who is in26 brands already backing the event.
Step 3 on mobile: the sponsor plans pop-up
03Picks a plan«Be part of it» opens three sponsor plans.
Mobile screen of the website, the merch section
04Writes on WhatsAppThe message is prefilled with the plan.

Motion

Small loops that make it feel alive.

Two details people play with: coffee beans that fall and pile up with real physics, and a pour that follows the scroll.

Coffee beans piled up in the website footer

Footer beans

Built with
Matter.js physics
Trigger
On scroll into view
Duration
Loop
The AeroPress pouring coffee into a glass as you scroll

The pour

Built with
GSAP ScrollTrigger
Trigger
Tied to scroll
Duration
1.2 s

Mobile

Designed for the phone it is sent to.

Most people open the link from WhatsApp. Every chapter, the game and the plans were designed for one thumb first.

Mobile: the hero
Mobile: your recipe, your character
Mobile: Margarita, coffee is also territory
Mobile: local talent, global stage
Mobile: the RED merch
Mobile: the sponsors wall

System

Coffee, wine and the color of the coast.

A warm dark base for the night of the event, cream for reading, and wine kept for the moments that ask for a decision.

  • 42%Coal#141211Base, night sections
  • 26%Cream#EEE5D7Reading, light sections
  • 14%Sand#C8AE93Labels, details
  • 12%Wine#4B151A
  • 6%Ivory#F7F0E5
Instrument SerifHeadlines · 96 / 64 / 40
AeroPress Margarita
Instrument Serif ItalicEmphasis inside a headline
a tu ritmo.
ManropeBody and interface · 22 / 16 / 14
Mantén pulsado para llenar. Suelta para pausar.
HandwrittenOne note per screen, the voice of the club
Buenas ideas. Mejor café.

Engineering

Built light, so the 3D never gets in the way.

A rich page that opens fast on a phone in a WhatsApp chat. Every technical choice served that one goal.

01 · Static pages

Astro

Ships almost no JavaScript by default, so the story is readable before anything else loads.

02 · The AeroPress in 3D

React Three Fiber · Three.js

The model is ours: the RED logo on the chamber and full control of every animation.

03 · Scroll and motion

GSAP ScrollTrigger

The pour, the chapters and the reveals follow the scroll at 60 fps.

04 · Physics

Matter.js

The coffee beans in the footer fall and pile up like real ones.

05 · Performance

Load on demand

The 3D scene and the game load only when they come into view.

06 · Measured

Lighthouse

92 performance on mobile, 100 on desktop. 100 in accessibility, best practices and SEO.

The day

Then the day came.

Rancho Victorio, Guarame. Baristas from the east of Venezuela competing for three places in the national final, with the sea behind them.

The winners with their prizes at AeroPress Margarita
Rancho Victorio from the air
An AeroPress on the beach
Coffee poured into a glass
RED Coffee Club merch by the sea

Photos: RED Coffee Club and @tonyjperdomo

Translated from Spanish

Results

The event now looks like what it is.

The club stopped sending a PDF. Brands now get a link that sells the championship as a premium event, built in one week.

week from brief to launch
1
Lighthouse performance, mobile
92
Accessibility, best practices, SEO
100
sections in one link, instead of a PDF
13

Live atredcoffee.club ↗

Credits

Who did what

Thank you, RED Coffee Club, for the trust and the coffee. Concept and development: Antoni Hidalgo. UX, story structure and shop: Samuel Urbina. Event photography: @tonyjperdomo.

Visit redcoffee.club ↗

Any questions? Write to us at hey@hidra.zip.

The 3D AeroPress with the RED Coffee Club logo, lying on its side
Red Coffee Club, by Hidra
Red Coffee Club, by Hidra