Shedding Skin
Design Diary, history, and other musings over the graphic design of this site.
//2026.1: Just Add Water
Orbital Industrialism
With 2026, I wanted to embrace a more industrial and mechanical aesthetic, inspired by the imagery of orbital stations and futuristic machinery. The live Orbital Desing System embodying the aesthetics is powering the current site.
//2025.2: The Bauhaus Cycle
Clean lines, geometric shapes
The Bauhaus manual cover look of 2025.1 and colors from the "rational
colors" were inspiring - but a bit too much. Embracing the minimalist aesthetics
often associated with Bauhaus, I created a new model focusing on cleaner space
use.
2025.1
Bauhaus
Originally, for 2025, I wanted to go for a Bauhaus inspired theming, with support for dark mode. The design was nice, but I never got the colors to work right.
//2024.1: Rudimentary polish
Astro defaults cleanup
The original design of the site was a very quick rehash on top of the Astro's example blog template.
