I designed this portfolio website for writer Adam Longwill:

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Design and Functionality

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Adam’s site is meant to show off his writing, so I created a minimalist website that features great typography. Text is presented in highly-readable, high contrast spaces. The navigation is organized and semantic, and grouped together along the top so it can be found and used instantly. We drilled down to the most important reasons a reader might use his website, and included nothing else to distract.

We also dedicated half of the site’s real estate to an actionable “contact me” box, which I integrated with a Google form so that Adam can protect his email address while accessing the responses from anywhere in the world.

Adam requested a Twitter widget, but I couldn’t find anything that gave me sufficient typographic control, so I created my own for the footer of his website:

Identity and Extensions

I also created a versatile typographic logo and color palate, which Adam has adapted to use for a variety of media: