The Examined Life Website Design

This site is a magazine for the gorgeous literary essays and book reviews by author Ellen Vrana, or as she calls it "an imagined community for creatives, doers and thinkers." She came to me for a design that was quiet, pensive and welcoming, like the English countryside where she goes to think. Of course the site also needed powerful search filters and custom-designed results, and my company took care of that, too.

Her Values page design is based on the feel of vintage seed packets and I drew a vector pattern ala Van Gogh for the background. I also animated a few of the hand-drawn illustrations she brought from her former site to work as page loaders.View the live site here: https://theexaminedlife.org/