A person
Restoration ecologist · Lisbon
The system
Not a style guide. The working parts of Rebirth, rendered live. If something is wrong here, it is wrong everywhere.
An open form completed by something that arrives from outside.
#070809the place before something exists
#F0EEE6human material — paper, stone, daylight
#92918Bmemory, secondary, inactive
#E04B32origin, human action, activation
#325BFFmachine intelligence, prediction
#8FD68Bverified restoration, growth
Ember, Signal and Life are semantic. If something is Ember, the person must eventually learn why. Small text and thin strokes use the legible variants so every pairing clears WCAG AA.
Begin again
A world is not software. It is what people keep returning to.
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Rectangles with no radius. On hover the origin mark expands and the label shifts three pixels. No glow, no gradient, no bounce.
An organization
Twelve people, four countries
An opportunity
Something a person could do this week that changes something real.
A document
Evidence. Dated, sourced, unadorned.
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Ceremonial is reserved for the mark. Everything a person does answers within 200ms. Reduced motion is a second complete language, not a removal: transitions become cuts, movement becomes state.
Five transitions, and one rule underneath all of them: the destination is visible inside the transformation. The current page becomes the next one. Never cover, wait, reveal.
The point the site began with becomes the destination. The birth.
A line forms between the two, and the camera travels along it.
The surface opens. The destination was already underneath it.
The interface decomposes into primitives and reorganizes.
The most recent geometry reverses. Nothing new is invented.
Navigate anywhere on this site to see them working. Geometry decides which one runs — depth of the path, and whether you are going back. With motion off, every one of them is a cut.
The world is legible to people and to machines in the same words. Nothing is hidden behind registration that a person could read.