GAMBIT Social Club — brand, site, and member intake system gambitsocialclub.com

An invitation-only social chess club in Chicago needed more than a landing page. It needed a way to receive applications, review them, and invite people — without me touching a spreadsheet.

I built the whole thing: brand identity, site, and the system running underneath it.:

What I designed

A restrained visual identity — forest green, oxblood, brass — built around film-style photography and a single confident typeface pairing. Copy written to sound like a person rather than a brochure. A slow-drifting photo strip that pauses on hover and stops entirely for anyone who's asked their device for less motion.

Stack: HTML/CSS/JS, Supabase (Postgres, Auth, Edge Functions), MailerSend, Vercel