Kultmeister · a studio for websites
Websitesbuilt to last.
Websites for people whose name is on the door. Each one checked against a written standard.
The flight needs WebGL 2. Without it, the catalogue leads through the exhibition.
Edition II · MMXXVI
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The Foyer
Your website decides before you speak.
For people and ventures whose name is the business: advisors who sell judgement. Artists whose work sets the room. Founders who need to look more solid than their headcount allows. We build that address — and check it against a standard that is written down and carries a number.
Three ways through the exhibition
Work No. 1 · The personal website · for one person with several ventures
One person, one address.
Profession, work and travel sit on separate domains — but people search the name. The page is a frontispiece: a title page from which every venture takes its path.
- Weight
- 89.6 KiB
- First paint
- 153 ms
- Pages
- 10
jens-hartmann.net Visit the website Task and answer
Work No. 2 · The advisory brand · for advisors who sell judgement
Authority without the jargon.
Anyone selling judgement cannot claim it — it has to be shown in a single visit. Serifs and white space carry the stance; at the end stands a conversation, not a funnel.
- Weight
- 76.9 KiB
- First paint
- 145 ms
- Pages
- 16
jenshartmannadvisory.com Visit the website Task and answer
Work No. 3 · The fine-art portfolio · for artists and collectors
The image governs the room.
An art site fails the moment its design competes with the work. Here the type steps back: 86 nodes in the whole document, not one that fails to serve the image.
- Weight
- 66.4 KiB
- First paint
- 136 ms
- Pages
- 20
hartmann.art Visit the website Task and answer
Work No. 4 · The photography shop · for photographers who sell
Sell without crowding the image.
Prices and buttons crowd out the picture the moment they come first. So the shop sits behind the gallery: 202 pages, each showing an image first.
- Weight
- 75.7 KiB
- First paint
- 144 ms
- Pages
- 202
jenshartmannphoto.com Visit the website Task and answer
Work No. 5 · The software product site · for software ventures
Technology, made tangible.
Software portfolios drown in buzzwords. This site replaces every claim with a measurement — and carries its own poster for devices without a GPU.
- Weight
- 117.2 KiB
- First paint
- 184 ms
- Pages
- 20
narrawise.com Visit the website Task and answer
Work No. 6 · The travel magazine · for travellers who read
Ten years on the road — as a journal.
A magazine that lives on pictures is read on a phone — edge to edge and fast. Single-column editorial, AVIF by default: the gallery weighs less than half.
- Weight
- 304.7 KiB
- First paint
- 200 ms
- Pages
- 32
weltenbummler.info Visit the website Task and answer
Work No. 7 · The studio website · for clients with a standard
Show, don’t claim.
Anyone selling care has to demonstrate it — describing it is easy. This page is measured by the same standard as every other work; the findings are in the colophon.
- Weight
- 101.3 KiB
- First paint
- 153 ms
- Pages
- 28
kultmeister.com Task and answer
The Rooms
One selection, one rule.
Every stele comes from the page itself: the tablet carries the ink of the site, headings become ridges, lines of text become ribs, images become glass in which the page glows. The room, too, comes from the page — its depth from the number of pages, its light from their white space. None of it is invented. What the rooms share is the standard they were built to.
- Tablet
- ink of the site
- Ridges
- headings
- Ribs
- lines of text
- Glass
- images
- Coffers
- surfaces
- Relief
- 1.5 screen widths
- Depth
- number of pages
- Light
- white space
The Studio
A small studio with a standard in writing.
Kultmeister is the studio practice of Dr. Jens Hartmann. Every website is made as a single piece: conceived, set, built and checked against a standard that is written down and carries a version number. In building and checking, the studio works with AI — as a tool in the hand, not a replacement for the hand.
Seven dimensions, one grade — and the grade is the weakest of them.
The Practice
The weakest point is the grade.
The check runs across seven dimensions: purpose, concept, design, layout, content, engineering, documentation. The grade is the weakest of them, never the average — a standard you only pass if nothing sags.
- Handcrafted
- Meets the standard in every one of the seven dimensions — for a presence that should hold up among the best in its field.
- Master Piece
- Every single dimension a reference in itself, from 95. Rare, and chosen before a project begins.
The way to your website
- Enquiry — a personal reply, usually within two to three working days.
- Discovery — the first, paid step: aim, material, measure — in writing.
- Build — in stages; each ends with a decision that is yours.
- Acceptance — against the standard, in every dimension. Only then does the site go live.
The empty plinth
The plinth is yours.
- Your work would stand here.
- Checked against the same standard as every other in this house.
- What does not pass it does not leave the studio.
A personal reply, usually within two to three working days.