{
  "id": "019",
  "url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/019",
  "css_url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/019/019.css",
  "title": "What Lies Beneath",
  "author": "Michael Pick",
  "description": {
    "summary": "A dark, atmospheric web design with a Zen-inspired aesthetic that contrasts weathered textures against precise typography and structured content layout.",
    "visual_style": "The design employs a dramatic, high-contrast visual language with textural dark backgrounds and carefully arranged textual elements that create an immersive, contemplative atmosphere.",
    "emotional_impact": "Evokes a meditative, mysterious mood through the use of deep blacks, textural surfaces, and subtle organic elements, creating a sense of depth and ancient wisdom.",
    "compositional_elements": "Structured as a horizontal layout with clear content divisions, featuring a prominent header, navigation strip, and content columns arranged in a balanced grid system."
  },
  "artistic_context": {
    "style_influences": "Japanese Zen aesthetics, digital grunge, industrial texture, minimalist typography",
    "visual_metaphors": "Path through darkness, ancient wisdom, weathered artifacts, natural growth against structure"
  },
  "categories": [
    "dark",
    "textural",
    "minimalist",
    "grid-based",
    "atmospheric",
    "high-contrast"
  ],
  "visual_characteristics": [
    "textured backgrounds",
    "weathered surfaces",
    "columnar layout",
    "stark typography",
    "organic header element",
    "dramatic lighting"
  ],
  "design_principles": {
    "primary_principles": [
      "contrast",
      "hierarchy",
      "balance",
      "rhythm"
    ],
    "visual_techniques": [
      "textural layering",
      "typographic scale",
      "negative space"
    ]
  }
}