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Colony is a website that keeps historical record and can be accessed virtually.
Colony is an interactive, immersive digital platform dedicated to Preserving History through the intersection of geography, data visualization, and community-driven research. By transforming historical records into a dynamic, visual, and map-centric experience, Colony allows...
The hexagonal map view is a really clever choice for navigating historical records by geography. Most history sites are just timelines or text archives, and this feels much more like an experience you'd explore rather than search. The dark palette gives it a nice archival weight.
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PrettyClever designed the Maximize website and hired me to build it 1:1 in Framer. Check it out below.
the maximize site in framer looks so good. how long was the 1:1?
Designed the website for Dovora — an agency that builds businesses for creators, not brand deals. "We don't represent brands, we don't split focus" is basically the whole pitch, and I wanted the site to feel just as uncompromising.
So no polished stock creator-economy visuals. The hero is a wall of real streamer/podcast footage arranged in overlapping diamonds and rounded frames — actual creators, mid-stream, mid-laugh — with a glowing gradient orb behind bold "WE BUILD CREATOR BUSINESSES" type. It reads more like a highlight reel than a landing page, which felt right for an audience that lives on camera.
The second section flips the energy completely — dark, minimal, almost aggressive typography ("BUILT EXCLUSIVELY FOR CREATORS. FULL STOP.") paired with huge chrome-and-neon 3D letterforms spelling out CREATORS. It's loud in a completely different way than the hero, and that contrast is intentional — this isn't a buttoned-up agency deck, it's built for people who make content for a living.
Genuinely fun brief to lean all the way into.
Day 12/30 of my hero section challenge.
Another day of prioritising the visuals and imagining a company that doesn't exist. I promise the next one is a tech brief with barely any imagery at all, I've leaned hard on beautiful photography for twelve days straight.
Concept: a mycelium materials company producing leather, packaging and foam grown from fungal networks. The design deliberately inverts the category's defaults; biotech branding tends toward dark, clinical and electric blue, so this one goes warm and botanical, with a subtle looping video of spores drifting and mushrooms emerging. The copy pulls hard the other way: plain, technical, B2B-direct, anchored by two concrete numbers instead of sustainability adjectives.
Twelve briefs across travel, food retail, personal branding, events, landscape architecture, pet services, hospitality, coffee, lighting, wellness, restaurants and now biomaterials.
12 down, 18 to go.
Built on the Viper template by Westhill Studio, adapted and customised by me.
Imagery and video generated with AI.
brilliant
