This weekend I remembered this little website I built in 2013, highlighting some of my favourite design(-adjacent) books. Dug it up via the Wayback Machine: jQuery, Typekit, this thing did anything it could to load as slowly as possible 😁
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I hacked it together for a university project over a few days using the 960 Grid System, so it wasn't responsive 😎 — I intended to flesh it all out into a responsive website, and ... never did (grade received, moving along).
Each book's page had its own typography and, by the looks of it, I tried to style them all individually within some sort of common structure. The little reviews I wrote are adorable 🥹
The layout breaks, but it's loading different typefaces through Typekit for every book, and I applied some fun CSS effects to the typography.
Funny to realise this as I now—again—have a website and newsletter highlighting the books I loved reading. The writing has improved, but the design could use some love! Time to build my own theme over the Christmas break, perhaps 🥰 trema.website
Trema • Daniël van der Winden
One brief book recommendation, once every month.
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Here's the short editorial by Verlyn Klinkenborg that I think inspired the thing at the time (I linked to it from the homepage, so it must have). nytimes.com/2013/08/11/opi…