src/data/designs/034/metadata.json

{
  "id": "034",
  "url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/034",
  "css_url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/034/034.css",
  "title": "zengrounds",
  "author": "Andrea Piernock",
  "description": {
    "summary": "A nostalgic web design showcasing a dark-themed educational interface with golden accents, combining early 2000s aesthetics with structured content organization to demonstrate CSS capabilities.",
    "visual_style": "Deliberately retro design with a black background, gold heading typography, and segmented content panels that evoke early web design practices while maintaining functional clarity.",
    "emotional_impact": "Creates a sense of digital nostalgia through its vintage web interface elements, balanced by an authoritative and educational tone established through structured layout and hierarchical information.",
    "compositional_elements": "Three-column layout with a prominent header, distinct content sections marked by decorative dividers, and consistent typographic hierarchy throughout nested content blocks."
  },
  "artistic_context": {
    "style_influences": "Early web design aesthetics, Y2K-era interfaces, tech-oriented documentation sites, Japanese zen philosophy visual metaphors",
    "visual_metaphors": "Digital garden as cultivated knowledge space, enlightenment path through structured learning"
  },
  "categories": [
    "retro-digital",
    "educational",
    "structured",
    "dark-themed",
    "technical",
    "nostalgic"
  ],
  "visual_characteristics": [
    "gold-black contrast",
    "sectioned-content",
    "pixel-graphics",
    "decorative-dividers",
    "hierarchical-typography",
    "cartoon-illustration"
  ],
  "design_principles": {
    "primary_principles": [
      "contrast",
      "hierarchy",
      "consistency",
      "emphasis"
    ],
    "visual_techniques": [
      "content compartmentalization",
      "navigational framing",
      "decorative header treatment"
    ]
  }
}