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Beneath the Rust

Stories from the Three Rivers, on a map.

Discipline: Design, Web, Systems
Stack: Next.js, Payload, Mapbox GL, Cloudflare R2, Vercel
Site: beneaththerust.com ↗︎ (opens in a new tab)

Overview

A community archive for Steel Country: first-person films from its towns, its mills and the road through recovery.

Beneath the Rust

Discipline: Design, Web, Systems
Stack: Next.js, Payload, Mapbox GL, Cloudflare R2, Vercel
Site: beneaththerust.com ↗︎ (opens in a new tab)

Overview

A community archive for Steel Country: first-person films from its towns, its mills and the road through recovery.

The Monongahela in 3D: the map pulled back, tilted to the horizon, then flown in to Homestead Works' card

The archive: stories from the field as polaroids, filtered by pillar, type and region

A story's own page: its title in the display face, the film, and who made it

The Ohio River's gallery: Bobby S.'s story played, then Drew's, the people down the left

01 Map
02 Archive
03 Story
04 Share

T Type

Rough Trade — display
Rust Hand — marker
Times New Roman — body
IBM Plex Mono — labels

C Colour

01 Archive card

The archive's card for Steve M.'s story: a tilted polaroid, a Regional tag, his name in marker

02 Story card

The story card a landmark opens: Acrisure Stadium, a line on it, its stories coming soon

03 Polaroids

The Ohio River's pile of polaroids: six stories stacked on the river

04 Landmark

The Fort Pitt Bridge as the map draws it: a 3D sprite over its mono label