Skeumorphic, Moi?

Things that look like other things

Best wwwebsite ever!

It’ going to look like the coolest fucking shelf of penguin books you’ve ever seen.

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

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

Colours

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-mean

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-timeline