Personal portfolio of Maria Vasilyeva, a senior visual and interactive designer, showcasing her work and experience.
The site opens as a nearly black page holding a single column of project names, years, and a repeated "More details" cue. There is no imagery, no introduction, no scrolling narrative. What remains is a strict index: PHANTOM, SIERRA, PHOTONCYCLE, DIIR, PENÍNSULA, KLARNA, GENOMAPP, BILDIA, PRÁCTICA, PLAYGROUND. Running in monospace, each line becomes a tombstone or a library spine, and the compact composition gives the portfolio the atmosphere of an internal archive rather than a promotional showcase. The typography carries the entire experience. All-caps titles and parenthetical years set a metronomic rhythm down the page, while the "More details" links break the pattern with the smallest interactive whisper. The dark-on-dark palette — #141414 against #0E0E0E — removes distraction and forces a focus on sequence and selection. It is an unusual hierarchy for a designer's portfolio, one that trusts the names of clients over visual snippets, relying on the audience's prior knowledge as part of the work's content. What feels deliberate is the restraint. No hover states, no thumbnails, no splash; the site asks for a specific kind of attention, slow and text-first. The absent imagery becomes a curatorial choice, turning the list into a catalog with zero noise. For an inspiration archive, this is worth noting as a disciplined model of anti-portfolio design — how a body of work can be presented with almost nothing and still feel intentional, even severe.








