Responses by Davide Baratta, style and design director, and Francesco Michelini, artistic developer.
Background: “The objective of the website is to encourage folks to find out more about philosophy and realize how residing with virtues can give perspective and change lives,” say Davide Baratta and Francesco Michelini.
“This is a passion task, self-initiated by imaginative director and our buddy Amalie Englesson,” says Baratta. “She arrived to us with the principle and gave us an enviable volume of freedom to bring her plan to daily life.
“This undertaking is not section of a larger campaign but is influenced by the painting series Seven Heavenly Virtues by the painters Piero del Pollaiolo and Sandro Botticelli,” he carries on. “A trip to the Uffizi Museum in Florence was the inspiration to develop a present day edition of the artwork, sharing the same concept as the paintings aimed to do in 1470.”
Design main: “We made use of styles and symbolism to develop a parallel between how the 7 virtues can use to our way of dwelling and how they were relayed in the artwork from the Renaissance,” Baratta clarifies. “The illustrations depict the seven virtues by referencing symbols and allegories from each portray, while the frames are made use of as navigational equipment in the course of the experience.”
Favorite specifics: “The use of movement and conversation mixed with sound results offers the web site a magical come to feel,” says Baratta. “These details carry to lifestyle a style program that is normally rather simple, based mostly on a restricted colour plan and geometrical designs.”
Worries: “For me, creating the total-monitor painting on the one virtues’ pages was the biggest obstacle,” says Michelini. “It could possibly not be clear at very first, but it has a great deal of concealed mechanics that have to have to perform together seamlessly and otherwise based on no matter if you’re on cell or desktop. Performing that wasn’t straightforward at all.”
New classes: “Being an Italian style and advancement duo, this was an incredibly rewarding job to do the job on,” Baratta says. “It’s been an possibility to discover far more about artwork that I experienced formerly contemplated in awe of in Florence and to support distribute tips that are nonetheless appropriate right now.”
Navigation framework: “The navigation is intended to allow the consumers roam across the web pages as if they ended up discovering a museum,” says Baratta. “There are many obtain factors, an infinite gallery on the homepage, a whole-monitor menu and shortcuts to get from just one advantage to another.”
Technological innovation: “The web page has been designed employing NuxtJS, which permitted us to generate the UI, composition and website page navigation practically very easily,” Michelini suggests. “Most of the animations, interactions and timelines are managed by the GSAP library and some of its plugins, like the Draggable plugin for the carousel on the homepage.
“The website didn’t need to have any CMS, so we only employed the Nuxt Information module to put all the written content in a variety of JSON data files to populate the web pages,” he continues. “Easy peasy.”
Distinctive technical options: “Since by layout the illustrations needed elaborate animations, performing all those by hand with code was not a viable choice due to the fact it would have demanded way way too a lot time and many back-and-forth iterations in between me and Davide,” says Michelini. “So, I did some analysis and located Rive, whose developers assert it’s ten-moments scaled-down and more rapidly than Lottie. We gave it a consider and found out that it was correct. In a make any difference of several hours, Davide managed to build all the animations we necessary. I definitely are not able to quantify how much time Rive saved us.”
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