Helmet Made

A fashion site concept that treats browsing like opening a small printed object rather than skimming an endless feed.

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Context

The project needed a presentation style that felt authored and tactile. A flat ecommerce rhythm would have made the work feel generic too quickly.

The direction here was to let identity, image, and movement carry more of the experience, and to test a book-like interaction as the framing device.

Role

Designed the visual direction, built the front-end concept, and developed the book-style interaction used to frame the site.

Process

Key decisions

Anchored the project around a strong mark and treated it as navigation, not decoration.
Used a book-like interaction to slow the browsing rhythm and make the site feel held.
Kept the interface sparse so the imagery and identity did the heavy lifting.

Making the interaction feel tactile without becoming gimmicky.
Balancing softness and structure across the brand language.
Keeping the site concept expressive while still readable as a real product direction.

Explored the mark across multiple arrangements before fixing the final wordmark behaviour.
Tightened the landing composition so the identity and image are not fighting each other.
Reduced the interaction to one simple book gesture instead of building extra motion for its own sake.

Proof

Identity exploration became part of the site language, not a separate exercise.

Prototype

A simple cover-to-spread motion is enough to prove the interaction without turning it into a spectacle.

Outcome

A site concept with a clear landing direction.
A brand system that already knows how it wants to behave on screen.
A lightweight book interaction that proves the browsing idea instead of only describing it.

Extend the same interaction logic across product views and tighten the transition between identity and commerce.

Closing

The useful test for this project was whether browsing could feel held and deliberate. The book interaction makes that idea visible.

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