Continuing my exploration of the Sable Records website concept. This is the Catalogue section, de...Continuing my exploration of the Sable Records website concept. This is the Catalogue section, de...
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Continuing my exploration of the Sable Records website concept.
This is the Catalogue section, designed to showcase the label's latest releases through a more editorial and immersive approach.
Instead of relying on a standard card grid, I explored a composition built around oversized typography, strong imagery, asymmetry and intentional negative space.
The idea is to make each release feel like more than just an item in a catalogue.
A website can be functional without feeling generic—and for a music label with a strong identity, the browsing experience should be part of the world the label is creating.
Direction: Editorial / Experimental / Minimal
This deserves more than just liking, this deserves to be featured! 🏆 Moving away from standard card grids into an editorial composition gives the catalogue such an immersive feel.
Ditching the standard grid for this editorial, magazine-spread feel makes scrolling the catalog feel like flipping through liner notes instead of a shop page. What almost didn't survive the jump from your first concept to what's on screen now?
The magazine-spread layout gives this so much personality! Moving away from standard card grids really fits the editorial feel for a record label catalog.
The editorial direction is the right instinct for a label. My one build on it is to define the asymmetry as two or three alternating rhythm templates rather than one bespoke composition, so the catalogue still feels hand-set when the label pours in its 40th release instead of quietly collapsing back into a grid.
Treating each release as an editorial feature fits a record label much better than making everything feel like inventory. I’d love to see how this direction handles a larger back catalogue—perhaps the expressive latest releases paired with a compact archive for quick browsing.
Ditching the standard card grid was the right instinct. Letting the hand and the vinyl bleed across the layout gives it a tactile quality most catalogue pages lose in favor of tidy rows.
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