Seven design directions

Seven mockups for the site’s visual style, each named after a piece of the Bobble canon. The shortlist headed for the Style toggle.

Seven visual directions for derekwakefield.com, each anchored to a different parable or piece of the canon. Trimmed from an earlier set of ten — these are the survivors headed for a Style toggle on the live site.

Open locally — no internet required after the page loads, since each mockup is inlined.

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The seven directions:

• Porch Light — small voice, on a porch, with one bulb above the door
• Star Chart — deep night, scholarly astrolabe, nav as constellation
• Bedrock — heavy slab serif, geological strata, gravity-anchored
• Hum — soft peach, dusty plum, continuous low-volume wave
• Bobblesphere — orbital rings, radial nav, sections as planets
• Library Bookmark — card catalog, dotted dividers, archival quiet
• Mind Palace Map — antique cartography, compass rose, framed scholarly plate