src/data/designs/041/metadata.json

{
  "id": "041",
  "url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/041",
  "css_url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/041/041.css",
  "title": "door to my garden",
  "author": "Patrick Lauke",
  "description": {
    "summary": "A minimalist web design featuring high contrast black and white aesthetics with a textured window background and transparent overlaid menu panels that create visual depth and spatial hierarchy.",
    "visual_style": "The design employs a stark monochromatic palette with subtle textural elements, creating a contemplative, zen-inspired visual language that balances negative space with structured text blocks.",
    "emotional_impact": "The dark, meditative atmosphere evokes a sense of calm focus and intellectual clarity, enhanced by the contrast between the shadowy background and illuminated text.",
    "compositional_elements": "Layered transparent panels create dimensional depth against the textured window backdrop, with carefully structured text blocks and subtle curved bracket elements providing organic counterpoints to the geometric layout."
  },
  "artistic_context": {
    "style_influences": "Japanese minimalism, early digital interface design, monochromatic photography",
    "visual_metaphors": "Window as portal to knowledge, transparency as clarity of thought, organic curves against rigid structure"
  },
  "categories": [
    "minimalist",
    "monochromatic",
    "textural",
    "zen-inspired",
    "transparent",
    "grid-based"
  ],
  "visual_characteristics": [
    "high-contrast",
    "layered-transparency",
    "textured-background",
    "typographic-hierarchy",
    "negative-space",
    "bracket-motifs"
  ],
  "design_principles": {
    "primary_principles": [
      "contrast",
      "hierarchy",
      "balance",
      "unity"
    ],
    "visual_techniques": [
      "transparency",
      "textural contrast",
      "spatial layering"
    ]
  }
}