{ "id": "023", "url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/023", "css_url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/023/023.css", "title": "fleur de l'avant-garde", "author": "Michael Switzer", "description": { "summary": "A web design showcase featuring a large orange gerbera daisy against a blue gradient background, with organized content sections in a three-column layout structure.", "visual_style": "Clean and structured web design that combines natural organic imagery with digital grid elements, creating a balance between technical precision and natural beauty.", "emotional_impact": "Calming yet energizing atmosphere created through the contrast of the vibrant flower against the cool blue gradient, suggesting growth and enlightenment.", "compositional_elements": "Strong asymmetrical composition with the organic flower element balancing the structured grid-based content, creating visual tension and harmony." }, "artistic_context": { "style_influences": "Early 2000s web design aesthetic, Japanese zen philosophy as expressed through visual simplicity and natural elements", "visual_metaphors": "Flower as growth/enlightenment, grid pattern as structure/order, blue gradient as serenity/wisdom" }, "categories": [ "grid-based", "nature-inspired", "minimalist", "educational", "zen-influenced" ], "visual_characteristics": [ "high-contrast", "asymmetrical-balance", "gradient-background", "organic-digital-fusion", "organized-hierarchy", "multi-column-layout" ], "design_principles": { "primary_principles": [ "contrast", "balance", "hierarchy", "unity" ], "visual_techniques": [ "natural motif integration", "grid structuring", "color symbolism" ] } }