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Rita Baum

WEBSITE DESIGN FOR A MAGAZINE

Rita Baum is an association and magazine founded in 1998, working at the intersection of photography, theatre and literature. Our task was website design for a magazine that has spent decades publishing photo reportage, reviews and critical writing on visual and performing arts. Given the experimental, artistic character of the editorial team's work, the site couldn't follow a typical, template-based structure – it also had to keep the clarity and readability expected of a good magazine. In this website design for a magazine, we set two worlds against each other: a clean, newspaper-style layout built on a column grid, and richly coloured, custom-designed interiors for each issue and article. Every issue of the magazine, and every editorial piece, was given its own signature colour palette – from muted black with an orange accent, through deep pink, to intense blue and red – so readers can immediately tell where in the site they are. Bold, layout-breaking numerals, such as issue numbers 59/60 or 61/62, together with custom illustrations accompanying the texts, give the site a character closer to an art album than a typical blog. The site's structure is built around a clear menu (News, Magazine, Posts, Association, Contact) and a homepage presenting the latest articles as a vertical, newspaper-style list. Every post includes the author's name, publication date and a comment option, underlining the platform's editorial, magazine-like character. This website design for a magazine, Rita Baum, was fully adapted for mobile devices – from laptop, through tablet, to phone – so that articles, photo reportage and illustrations keep their visual impact on every screen. The end result is a site that combines editorial discipline with colour courage – exactly like the Rita Baum magazine itself, working at the intersection of photography, theatre and literature.

Layout

In this website design for a magazine, we set two worlds against each other: a clean, newspaper-style layout built on a column grid, and richly coloured, custom-designed interiors for each issue and article. Every issue of the magazine, and every editorial piece, was given its own signature colour palette – from muted black with an orange accent, through deep pink, to intense blue and red – so readers can immediately tell where in the site they are. Bold, layout-breaking numerals, such as issue numbers 59/60 or 61/62, together with custom illustrations accompanying the texts, give the site a character closer to an art album than a typical blog.

 

The site’s structure is built around a clear menu (News, Magazine, Posts, Association, Contact) and a homepage presenting the latest articles as a vertical, newspaper-style list. Every post includes the author’s name, publication date and a comment option, underlining the platform’s editorial, magazine-like character. This website design for a magazine, Rita Baum, was fully adapted for mobile devices – from laptop, through tablet, to phone – so that articles, photo reportage and illustrations keep their visual impact on every screen.

The end result is a site that combines editorial discipline with colour courage – exactly like the Rita Baum magazine itself, working at the intersection of photography, theatre and literature.