Shifting Times
Experimental web design
2024
Conceptualized, designed, and developed a website that playfully explores the concept of linear time, built within a 2 KB code constraint. Published in Taper Magazine.
TIMELINE
2 Days
TOOLS
Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Shifting Times is a web-based work published on Taper Magazine, a web-based literary journal for short, computational work. The website responds to the theme Tools, inviting works of minimalist digital tool, or works that make mischief with the very notion of tools and usefulness, all within 2 KB of code.
Shifting Times, as its name suggests, plays with the concept of time. While we have collectively adopted the standard of Coordinated Universal Time, time can often feel fluid when we lose sight of the clock. An hour can simultaneously feel like a few minutes and an eternity. This web-based work plays with the tension between measured, standardized time, and the seconds that we feel passing by.
This website counts the length of time that has passed since it was published on April 30, 2024. Every time the website is refreshed, a new length for counting time is created. Here, a second can feel shorter or much longer. The number of days since the website has been published becomes a relative measurement.