CERVINE.ONLINE
"cervine.online" is a webpage I built to serve as an 'identity index' - something between a portfolio, a personal website, and an online joke. It's also one of my favorite personal design projects.
From the start, I wanted the site to include a chaotic variety of visual styles in order to encapsulate more parts of who I am and what I do.
CERVINE.ONLINE
For the current version of cervine.online, I pushed the original concepts in the direction of hyperrealism and maximalism. I wanted the site to feel like stickers and array of physical objects - mixed with layers of references to modern web design. Towards this goal, I followed some specific stylistic constraints:
- While many modern websites include lots of motion, I avoided motion and paralax entirely to make all the objects in the main content feel very static, like a photo.
- However, unline a static photo, I needed the site to be extremely responsive, so all of the elements are designed to re-compose in a way that still presents like a static photo visually, at any screen size.
- In contrast to the photorealism for backgrounds and objects, I wanted to use flat legibility for all textual content.
- I avoided expanses of full black and full white in 'sticker' details, shading them to match the lighting of the background.
One of my favorite details is the fake tech support chat bubble I made to hide the music player in (on large screens only).
All of the photographic elements are photos I took of real objects, and the wall is the side of my apartment.
I'm sure the Home Depot employees thought it was very normal that I wanted to buy like 6 inches of chain to make a cool background for the "Links" section.
