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Sketch Fest – Website

A platform for the festival to run on: it explains what Sketch Fest is, takes bookings, and gives partners a way in. Designed and built, not yet launched.

Role
Design and build
Year
2026
Status
Unreleased
Disciplines
Web design, Information architecture, Interaction design, Front-end
The website’s homepage: a blank sheet with the Sketch Fest wordmark rubbed out of it in green graphite, the toolbar above

Sketch Fest had been running on messages, posts and a spreadsheet. This replaces it: somewhere the festival can be found, understood and booked, and somewhere a partner can start a conversation.

Four pages, and no menu deeper than one level.

Eventos
Find what is on
O Festival
Understand what it is
Serviços
Bring it somewhere
Contactos
Start a conversation
The events listing: three cards, one marked Inscrições abertas with a booking link, two marked Em breve with Registar interesse
Every edition carries its real status: Inscrições abertas with a booking link, Em breve with a form that collects an email instead.
The event page: the facts of the edition laid out in a grid on the left, the booking form and its pricing running alongside on the right
Dates, location, level, price and what is included, with the booking form alongside rather than after it.
The programme laid out hour by hour across both days, each entry naming the session and who leads it
The programme, hour by hour across both days.

It asks you to draw first

The homepage opens on a blank sheet. Moving the cursor lays down graphite and the wordmark develops out of the paper. Scroll, and the sketch melts into a wash while the mark flies up to the toolbar, where it stays for the rest of the visit.

Nothing appears until you make one, which is the argument of the festival stated as a mechanic.

Rubbing the wordmark out of the paper
And what scrolling does to it

Everywhere else, scanned brush and pencil marks underline headings and wipe across the screen between pages, so a page change reads as something drawn rather than something loading.

Both previews are recordings of the site itself, played back here as a stepped image sequence rather than a video.

The services page: a grid of four offers (team building, workshops, sketching zone, Douro experiences), each with its format, audience and a link to ask
Serviços, written for partners rather than participants: four offers, each with its format and its audience.
The site at phone width: the events listing stacked into a single column under the developed wordmark
The same at phone width. One column, same behaviour.

Built

Static HTML and CSS, no framework and no CMS, with bookings landing in a sheet. The drawing surface is a canvas and about three hundred lines of JavaScript, and the only part of the site that is not a plain document.

Not launched yet. The pages, the navigation and the booking flow all work; everything shown here is the real thing, running locally.

Credits

Built for Sketch Fest, co-founded with Isabel Seixas. The festival’s visual identity is not mine; my work here is the platform, its structure and its behaviour. Photography from the Alto Douro Vinhateiro.