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Case study
2024
Aperture Journal
A reading-first home for a quarterly photography magazine and its archive.
Client
Aperture Journal, Oslo
Role
Editorial design, web design
Duration
12 weeks
Outcome
Average read time up to 6 min 40 s
The brief
Aperture publishes long essays next to large photographs. Their old site broke both: images were cropped and text ran edge to edge. The brief was simple. Make it pleasant to read.
The approach
We set a single reading column with images that break out to full width, built a quiet type scale, and gave every issue its own accent drawn from its cover.
The result
Average read time more than doubled to six minutes forty, and the archive of 48 issues is now fully searchable.
(The result)
Average read time up to 6 min 40 s
Client
Aperture Journal, Oslo
