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Arika

July 2022
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A redesign the website of political arts organisation Arika. The website has two main functions – to promote Arika’s upcoming and ongoing programme, and to serve as an archive of events dating back to 2001. Arika’s visual identity involves the use of high-contrast gradients in various configuration, which are integrated throughout the site. They are used to aid navigation and give structure to the event pages, and as banners when no other visual material yet exists. Given the highly diverse range of visual material on the site, they provide structure in a visually engaging way while leaving allowing the work to take prominence.

The content structure was developed to respond to Arika’s practice which often organises groups of events within an instance of a larger programme. The archive allows visitors to search and filter by programme, artist, theme, or type of work. Accessibility was a primary concern from the beginning. The site implements controls to accommodate requirements for type size, color, reading, and motion. Additionally, it reads pre-set browser configurations to automatically set any accessibility preferences the user may have already specified.

In collaboration with Maeve Redmond

Arika website home page
Programme
The home page features the upcoming and ongoing programme.
Arika website about information
Gradients
Arika’s visual identity involves the use of high-contrast gradients in various configuration, which are integrated throughout the site.
Arika website accessibility settings bar
Accessibility
Accessibility settings allow the visitor to control type size, motion, contrast, and reading mode. These default to any settings that have been pre-configured in the visitors browser.
Arika website event archive
Archive
The archive allows visitors to search and filter by programme, artist, theme, or type of work going back to 2001.
Arika website event index
Index
The index provides a quickly filterable tabular overview of the entire events archive.
Arika website event page
Arika website home page
Arika website home page
Arika website event archive
Arika website mobile event details page