Skeumorphic, Moi?
Things that look like other things
Best wwwebsite ever! ✊
It’s going to look like the coolest fucking shelf of penguin books you’ve ever seen. At least, it will eventually…
From the home page, every folder or article, or experiment page will present as cool 70s penguin book cover. Once inside… something a bit more like a typed page… but, I’m not too worried about that.
Structure
Cover grid
There’s an underlying grid to the typical penguin layout
A bit like:
Not the left third of the top grid is typically empty - exact proportions - see grid
For later full-bleed image styles like
Where the circle represents the focus area of the main image. Obviously subject to some artistic license.
I could just make each of these images by themselves as a standalone png… but where’s the fun in that? I want to make it flexible, and use SVGs and filters and perhaps animation.
I want to have that hauntology feel, but created using modern CSS.
Colours
The original series of Penguin paperbacks had a colour cods. Here’s a useful link about the colours of early penguin books - https://countryhouselibrary.co.uk/blogs/our-seasonal-book-selections/what-do-the-colours-of-penguin-books-meancountryhouselibrary.co.uk
I’m not going to stick to that slavishly, but let it inform some of my category colours perhaps 😁
Content
Everything man - put myself out there. A polymath. Or at least a semimath
- Music
- Playlists
- Articles
- Stupid micro posts
- Good micro posts
- Short fiction
- Reviews
- Extended thoughts
- Edited thoughts
- Sounds I like
- Experiment page
They can all have fun names like
An LRG extended memes collection
or
LRG musical fart noise series
or
LRG shit I’ve made up volume 3
Other style
The Penguin website helped me out with some inspiration - https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/about-us/company-history/company-timelinewww.penguin.co.uk