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Jerusalem Story

A digital space that captures the essence and rich history of an extraordinary city.

2021 Frontend Development Visit site ↗

Jerusalem has more history than any one page can hold. The site gives it room: the city’s story, told in one place.

Syntax was the leading branding and digital design agency, creating a digital space that captures the essence and rich history of this extraordinary city. I built the front end.

TOPICS AND LANDING

Each topic opens on a drawing of people, left in simple outline. It feels unfinished on purpose; the stories fill it in. Colour has a job too: every topic gets its own, so you always know where you are on the platform.

A topic landing page for Closure and Access to Jerusalem, opening on an outline drawing of a crowd at a city gate above a grid of featured stories, blogs and videos; beside it, a story page with a market photo, a snapshot summary, a contents list and a map

BLOCKS AND PARTITIONS

A modular system: every content type has a block that adapts to wherever it lands on the site. Colour, type, imagery and illustration are kept in balance, so nothing competes with the content itself.

A sheet of the site’s building blocks: story and opinion cards in several sizes, image cards tinted green and purple, a Share Your Story banner with an outline drawing of a woman carrying a basket, cards for audio, a blog post and an interactive map, and a full-width photo partition titled One City, Two Peoples

RESPONSIVE

Mobile screens: a topic hero, feature story cards, the opinion section, the cookie notice, filters for reads and media, a contact confirmation with an outline drawing, and the Qudsipedia search

THE OBSESSING PART

Every project here has a detail nobody asked for and nobody will spot. I fixed it anyway. Bring me one more.