I made an expanding story called Telescopic Text which led to making tools for writing expanding narratives. I have made some animated films including Talk To Me, Scribble and These Are The Boring Bits, made bespoke websites for Erica Lorraine Scheidt, Steven Appleby, Minus 9 Design, Louise Naunton Morgan, The Human Printer, Christopher Potter, A Small Town Anywhere and others, designed a typeface, created an identity for The Web Copywriter, had a conversation with IKEA, (ab)used the Google Street View API to create a website where you can only look up at the sky, taken portraits of people staring back at Google, and photographed things. Contact [enable javascript to see email address] ⇗.

Minus 9 Design

14 October 2009

www.m9design.com ⇗

Minus 9 Design is the studio of Rathna Ramanathan, graphic designer and head of design at Central St. Martins in London. She makes quite a wide variety of work, and was keen to have a website that would reflect this, and allow for growth and change over time.

When we began the project, I hadn’t really seen any of her work and she was keen to keep it that way, as I would then be designing a website to fit her as a practitioner, not her past work. We had many conversations to develop ideas.

I created a dual system for accessing the work. One is hierarchical, presenting the work in categories and subcategories. The other is more intuitive, based on labels that allow you to move sideways through different pieces of work in an unpredictable way. Labels are sorted vertically by how recently they have been used and horizontally by alphabet, to create a flexible evolving layout that shows the shape of Rathna’s thought and process both current and past.