Created a custom site for a poet, dramatizing his work
Responsibilities:
- Frontend
- CSS
- JS
- Scope Management
- CMS (Craft)
- Design
Outcomes:
A poet’s website that integrates his poetry and the typography from his inaugural chapbook.
Case study
Design & code for an poet’s website#
With the freedom to both design and code this website, I decided to utilize the author’s poem, 99 Names of Exile, in a dramatic way. On the landing page, I overlaid the poem’s “99 Names of Exile” over the author’s name, erasing his identity until the names that others have imposed upon him are removed. I employed GreenSock, a javascript animation toolset, to randomize the the array of the ”names” and the order in which they disappear, as demonstrated in the video below.
The typeface “Mirza” was selected for its similarity to the font used in the author’s chapbook, providing a consistent visual identity across platforms. As with numerous other projects, I implemented a custom setup of Craft CMS. This choice was driven by the author’s desire for advanced and non-chronological content modeling capabilities, which Craft CMS is excellent at accommodating.
