Reconstructing Magic

status: straight out of my physical journal
intention: creating a magical website design

seed planted: Nov 1 2025
last tended: Nov 1 2025


Introduction

I’ve been trying for a long time to grasp the essence and the vision of this website and how I could translate it visually.

They call it Brand Design in corporate language.
I call it decorating my digital home.

For now, I chose a very minimal design with a beige background and some color highlights here and there.

Where I intend to go: creating a magical, timeless place. elegance & simplicity. nature & prayer. black and white tranquility mixed with colorful edgyness.

What is magic? / What makes a place magical?

  • A portal that catapults you to a different dimension.
  • Boundlessness that is still somewhat limited
  • Illusion
  • Awakens a memory, a sense of something ‘out of this world or out of the ordinary’
  • Something irreplicable, alive
  • Exotic, unique, never seen before, unexpected, outstanding, impossible

Places of Inspiration: room of requirement in HP, Spirited Away, Midnight Library, Night Circus, Now You See Me, Narnia, Lucid Dream/AP, Nature, Psychedelics

Brainstorming Notes: Mystery, Reverse Engineering, Information, Working from Airport, Always Imagining, A sense of wonder & Uncertainty, something ungraspable, city lights, chasing the uncomprehensive

You can’t put your finger on it.
There’s a certain gravitational pull that doesn’t let you go.
It calls you back.
Unshakeable feeling that cannot be explained.
When you think you have forgotten about it, you’ll find out that it still lingers somewhere at the back of your mind.