Seeds of Renaissance Experiences (2026)

Standalone, poetic, animated experiences that convey Seeds of Renaissance. Each stands alone: a piece of the website, a microsite, or something shown at an event. Whether they merge into the main site is decided later.

Spirit: fun, energy and our own joy first. Usability, navigation and conversion (subscribe buttons etc.) are explicitly not goals at this stage. Ambition is welcome; don't design down to budget.

Look: rich colour in the animations. No house style imposed across experiences yet.

Shared visual decisions live in ../sor-design-system/ — the typefaces are settled there, used by both this project and the website.

Separate from the website work, now folded into the design system (the early directions are archived there). Shared substance lives in the design system: brand.md, manifesto.

Start here

• Where we are: bd show design-323 (epic) and bd list --parent design-323 (tasks).
• Home page (current focus): overview · brief · common context · rough sketch. Parts in parallel folders: 01-arrival, 02-dawn, 03-leap, 04-book, 05-flight.

Contents

• raw/: unedited outflows, for reference.
• experiences.md: the candidate experiences (arrival, book, leap, temple, magazine).
• Type: moved to the shared design system, ../sor-design-system/type.md.
• experiences/00-home/: the home page: brief, common context, rough sketch, and how the parts join.
• experiences/01-arrival … 05-flight: one folder per part, each with a HANDOFF.

Progress and next steps live in beads, not in these files.

Tracking: beads epic design-323.