Portfolio — 2026
Round 2 — Exposed Grid variations.
Five refinements of the winning direction from round 1.
- D1 Flood Hover floods the whole cell with the project's color; grayscale image blooms to full color.
- D2 Ledger Editorial 2-col rows, image left / text right, accent bar slides in along the hovered cell's edge.
- D3 Frame Always-color imagery; hover adds an inset accent outline and corner tick marks like a crop frame.
- D4 Spotlight Hovering a cell dims every sibling to 40% and tints the cell with its own project color.
- D5 Spec Sheet Print-spec styled cells with crop marks and duotone imagery that resolves to color on hover.
Project page explorations
- P1 Full Immersion From the nav down, the whole page runs on the project's own palette — no ink base showing through.
- P2 Ink Frame The site's ink base stays put; the project's theme lives inside one bordered panel, then hover states elsewhere borrow its colors.
- P3 The Wipe Starts on ink for continuity, then a gradient band wipes the page into full project theme partway down.
P3 transition studies
Round 1 archive