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MAK Center for Art and Architecture Website

2024 Web Design
Client: MAK Center
Design: VerbalVisual
Year: 2022


Font in use: Grotta

Founded in 1994, the MAK Center is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)3 non-profit organisation and the California satellite of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, working in cooperation with the Friends of the Schindler House (FOSH). The core of the programming includes the internationally recognised MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program, an annual residency program for emerging international artists and architects.

Designed by the team at VerbalVisual (@studioverbalvisual) the new website for the MAK Center for Art and Architecture brings Schindler’s concept of Space Architecture to the two-dimensional surface of the screen. Departing from the standard stacked-row approach to website design, the new MAK Center site’s grid system emphasises horizontal and vertical relationships between content elements to create a dynamic and interconnected series of forms on each page.

Each location under the MAK Centre’s stewardship receives a unique colour to allow visitors to quickly differentiate between programming, exhibition, and event venues. The Schindler House is assigned pink, a subtle nod to Mrs. Schindler’s one time colour palette for the house; the Mackey Apartments are blue, a close match to the restored paint colour of built-ins throughout the apartments; and the Fitzpatrick-Leland House is green, a nod to the expansive plant-filled vistas seen from within the house.

To round out the identity, a quirky sans-serif typeface channels the spirit of eccentricity and experimentation that Schindler brought to the California modernist movement.

Grotta in use for the MAK Centre

Grotta in use for the MAK Centre

Grotta in use for the MAK Centre

Grotta in use for the MAK Centre

Grotta in use for the MAK Centre

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