Sun Thinking: A Solar Protocol Exhibition
Website Design & Development
Commissioned by Tega Brain for Solar Protocol
As a designer who thinks a lot about how to move forward in a warming world, this project was a welcome challenge. Solar Protocol, a website hosted on servers around the world, each powered by the sun, was having an exhibition. In the exhibition, works were to be hosted on the server and displayed in a special section on the site, which I was to design and develop.
The parameters for this web design were a bit different than most, but they fit within a category of research I’d spent quite some time on in the past. It needed to be congruous within the existing Solar Protocol website design and structure, it needed to be built entirely with HTML and CSS (no libraries or external resources) and it must be lightweight enough to run on the Solar Protocol server. This meant that images on the site must be dithered and typefaces could only be system fonts available on every computer.
As a designer who thinks a lot about how to move forward in a warming world, this project was a welcome challenge. Solar Protocol, a website hosted on servers around the world, each powered by the sun, was having an exhibition. In the exhibition, works were to be hosted on the server and displayed in a special section on the site, which I was to design and develop.
The parameters for this web design were a bit different than most, but they fit within a category of research I’d spent quite some time on in the past. It needed to be congruous within the existing Solar Protocol website design and structure, it needed to be built entirely with HTML and CSS (no libraries or external resources) and it must be lightweight enough to run on the Solar Protocol server. This meant that images on the site must be dithered and typefaces could only be system fonts available on every computer.