Make Placid + Write Placid
A shared publishing foundation for projects and writing
- Role
- Designer and developer
- Mandate
- Create complementary foundations for visual projects and editorial publishing
- Scale
- Two related systems adapted into this portfolio and Thinking House
- Outcome
- Established shared structural logic while allowing each public site its own identity
Context & approach
Rather than design my portfolio and Thinking House as one-off websites, I built two related publishing systems first. Make Placid was designed for visual, project-based work; Write Placid for writing and editorial publishing.
They share the same content-first approach to typography, hierarchy, navigation, and restraint, but each is tuned to a different kind of material. Together they form a reusable foundation rather than a single visual template.
I then used those foundations to build two distinct public-facing sites: Make Placid became the basis for this portfolio; Write Placid became the basis for Thinking House. The underlying logic is shared, while each site has its own identity and purpose.
Try the Make Placid demo or Write Placid demo, or inspect their portfolio source and writing source.