Maria Lassnig Stiftung
Webdesign
Interactive Exhibition
Background
Maria Lassnig is a well-known austrian contemporary artist. After her death in 2014 her foundation approached Lichtwitz Leinfellner visuelle Kultur KG to design their website. I was working in a team with the agency in order to best portray Lassnigs Life and Work.
Challenge and approach
The biggest challenge we faced was the interactive timeline on Lassnigs life and work. Visitors should be able to scroll, drag or click through the extensive timeline on desktop as well as mobile devices.
Insights and solution
Information, facts, quotes, paintings as well as personal photos were divided in 9 chapters. We took special attention to details of the timeline such as displaying the paintings in ration to their actual size. This way the visitor gets a sense of how the size of the canvas grew bigger and bigger as Maria Lassnigs career advanced.
The timeline was filled with her artwork at the top and personal information, pictures and infos on exhibitions in the bottom part of the timeline.
We also coloured each chapter of Lassnigs life in the color which was dominant in her work of that time and sprinkled her quotes between artworks as well as on the homepage.
Attention to detail: Interactiondesign
Visitors can quickly jump from one milestone in Maria Lassnigs life to another by clicking on the chapter names and selecting a different chapter.
Images are loaded with lazy loading so the page initially loads faster. The placeholder is always colored in the chapters color.
The chapter titles are always visible in their active state until being pushed out and replaced by the next title.
Images can be clicked on to get a better look at them.
Development and Quality Assurance
It wasn’t too easy finding the right partner to code this site since it was a daunting and challenging task. We did find the right guys to work with!
Attention to details, neat animations and interactions as well as the topic of the site itself made this one of my favourite projects I’ve ever worked on.
In team with
Lichtwitz Leinfellner Kultur AG
Coding
Sebastian Schally
Online
marialassnig.org
Responsibilities
Concept and Webdesign, Quality Assurance
Impact of my work:
We created a timeless design. The website with it's interactive timeline has been live, representing Maria Lassnigs life and work since 2014.