A Love Letter to the Geometry of Brass Panels and Tinted Glass
Ipjosim is a love letter to the great Art Deco magazine spreads of the 1920s and 1930s, reimagined through the whimsical lens of a modern illustrator who can’t stop grinning at the absurdity of treating geometry as scripture. Every chevron, sunburst, and fluted column is rendered with obsessive precision, yet deployed in ways that feel delightfully unexpected.
The mood is that of an eccentric architect’s personal journal — meticulous blueprints annotated with doodle-like marginalia, brass rulers left at jaunty angles across half-finished compositions. There is reverence for the period’s devotion to symmetry and radial pattern, but the tone never becomes museum-stiff.
Color and light behave as if filtered through the tinted glass transoms of a 1930s department store: warm amber pools punctuated by sharp jade and teal accents, with deep charcoal voids providing dramatic negative space. Every surface feels like it could be etched into a brass panel or embossed on a foil-stamped magazine cover.
The whimsical-creative tone manifests not through cartoon softness but through unexpected juxtapositions: a perfectly symmetrical sunburst housing a deliberately off-kilter pull-quote; a fluted column pattern that subtly morphs into a piano keyboard as you scroll; geometric borders that respond to cursor proximity with tiny celebratory flourishes. The site takes the gravitas of Art Deco and gives it a sly sense of humor.