Brand
Califts · Est. 2024
A gymwear brand I co-founded — designed and built end-to-end, from the typographic identity to the checkout flow. "Discipline is the only aesthetic."
Most gymwear brands compete on volume and visibility — bigger logos, more drops, more loud color. Califts went the other way. The identity is in the fit. No conspicuous branding. Limited runs. No restocks on sold-out items. The site had to embody all of it.
"Worn by people who decided who they are — not people who need to announce it."
Editorial homepage that reads like a campaign, not a product grid. Product pages built around fit and construction, not feature lists. Cart and checkout tuned for mobile-first impulse — 90% of conversions happen on a phone. Drop mechanic wired to Instagram-first reveals: new releases announced on @califts before they hit the site.
Building the site for a brand I co-founded is a different kind of work. Every typographic choice, every micro-copy line, every checkout micro-interaction had to survive a founder's scrutiny — and a customer's impatience. There was nowhere to hide behind a brief.
The result is the cleanest, most opinionated e-commerce site I've shipped — because no one had to be politely talked into it.
Califts is now selling out drops, with new releases announced on Instagram first and the site converting them within hours. The brand has a waitlist. The waitlist has a waitlist.