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Editorial Systems

Classic Proportion

Atelier Client Rome Publishing House
Year of Craft 2025
My Role Creative Director
Symmetry Category Editorial Systems
Disciplines: Editorial Systems Art Direction Typography Systems
Classic Proportion

The Challenge

To design a content-heavy digital publishing system that avoids the standard cluttered grid structure, instead feeling like a luxury art book.

The Concept & Philosophy

We adopted the classic asymmetrical margins of Renaissance manuscripts, leaving generous white space ('plaster silence') around beautiful serif headlines.

The Plaster Silence

True luxury is defined by space. By leaving parts of our grid empty, the content that remains feels selected, deliberate, and archival.

Typographic Framework

  • Primary Heading: The serif typeface Cinzel provides a monument-like structure for major headings.
  • Accenting Captions: Hand-aligned italics set in Cormorant Garamond frame images and section markers.

The Process

Using CSS grid structures paired with high-performance media queries, we ensured that copy remains centered and highly readable while maintaining proportion guidelines.

The Final Result

A highly readable, elegant publication theme that boasts 98/100 Lighthouse performance and accessibility scores, boosting article scroll depth by 60%.

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Vatican Geometry

A digital experience structured on classical Roman archways, vaulted vaults, and sacred geometric layouts.

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