Sebastian Wywiórski – design and build of an artist's portfolio website

Building a portfolio website for Sebastian Wywiórski meant creating a digital environment for art that constantly escapes classical definitions. Wywiórski is an interdisciplinary artist who fluidly combines traditional easel painting with mechanical elements and kinetic objects. His broad visual practice also spans large-scale spatial installations, performance pieces and experimental video art. Designing a usable interface for such a versatile portfolio required a layout that keeps a strong character of its own, yet remains merely a backdrop that puts these diverse works on display.

The core challenge in unconventional projects like this one is meeting the artist's very particular expectations. An artist usually has a highly developed aesthetic sense and will certainly not settle for a standard, conventional arrangement of visual content. Working for such a client almost always pushes us to keep searching, to break familiar patterns and to experiment graphically. At the same time we have to keep hard financial realities in mind. Budgets in the cultural sector are often tight, so every process becomes the difficult art of a wise compromise. Our overriding goal was to create a unique design that brings order to something that is, by its very nature, elusive and 'unorderable'.