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Gianluca Gradogna

gianlucagradogna.com

a multidisciplinary designer's portfolio that floats a crisp white intro card over a dark, full-bleed photographic world, pairing a clean Neue Montreal grotesque with a high-contrast Times display serif and one slow in-out-sine colour fade.

Design Portfolio Multidisciplinary Designer Portfolio niche

Design tokens

black
panel-black
white
grey-soft
display
Times
body
Neue Montreal
mono
none

Do / Don't

Reference it for

  • The white-card-over-dark-world device: a clean content card laid over full-bleed photographic panels, like a print sample placed on a dark desk.
  • Grotesque-plus-Times pairing: Neue Montreal for structure and labels, Times as a borrowed-classic display serif for editorial headlines.
  • Editorial footnote markers ({ 1* }, { 2* }, "Scroll Down" / "Scroll Up") used as wayfinding and texture.
  • Restraint as a signature: one slow in-out-sine colour fade and almost no chrome, letting imagery and type carry the page.

Do not copy

  • The portrait and travel photography are the designer's own work; borrow the framing device, not the images.
  • The single white card holding the intro is a one-off composition; it works because the surrounding world is dark and quiet, so do not bolt it onto a busy page.
  • Times as a display face is a deliberate "default serif" wink from a designer; on a client brand, map it to an intentional display serif instead.

Signature moves

white-card-over-dark-photographic-world device

a crisp white intro card floats over a dark full-bleed photographic world, like a print sample placed on a dark desk, in a split-panel composition with a centred ~400-460px card.

grotesque-plus-Times pairing with footnote-marker wayfinding

Neue Montreal for structure and labels plus Times as a borrowed-classic display serif at 152px, with editorial footnote markers ({ 1* }, { 2* }, 'Scroll Down'/'Scroll Up') as wayfinding and texture.