This was an exhibition you had to be there for. Artists, local craftspeople, and harbor shopkeepers stepped into each other's worlds, turning the memories of people who live closest to the water into work you could walk through and see. The website had to carry that warmth before anyone arrived. We built it to be felt on screen first.
Design Decisions
Built a borderless, flowing layout.
The exhibition's whole idea was that nothing had edges: people, places, objects, and shops all thriving together. We carried Ada's key visual into the page, opening with the slow time and texture of harbor life. With no hard frame to the layout, browsing feels like wandering rather than navigating.
Framed every work as a window.
In a harbor, windows carry meaning. A boat's porthole, a house's narrow slot, a way of looking out at the water and inward at yourself. We framed each piece the same way, so scrolling feels like rounding a corner in the alleys and catching a work through a window. The discovery happens on its own.
Turned browsing into footsteps.
Online interest rarely becomes a real visit. We mapped every exhibition stop as an illustration and wired each one to Google Maps navigation. The site stops being a brochure and becomes a guide you walk with.
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