Reverie‹ the research

How should the gallery look?

A calm, zine-like art gallery — limited colour, no pretension.

the machine

Surveyed zine and poetry-book layout — what translates calmly to the web, what is just gimmick. Drafted three directions.

B · One Quiet Page
A · The Spread
C · Risograph
the finding
One Quiet Page
one piece per screen
the hand

Chose B — the calmest, most glanceable, least to build. Kept the art's own colour.

Declined the risograph direction: its duotone restyled the art, and the art must stay free.

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