How the exhibition was built
Ten Awwwards-caliber directions for one real agency, designed and built end-to-end by Claude (Anthropic) — code, art direction, copy staging, QA. This is the workflow, written so you can reproduce it.
It starts with one document per direction: a named concept, a strict palette, a typographic voice, one signature interaction, and a hard rule about what the site refuses to do. Ten concepts were chosen to be mutually exclusive — if two could be confused at a glance, one was replaced. The factual universe is a single shared content.json: real services, real projects, real contact copy. Nothing may be invented, only restaged.
Imagery and video were generated with GPT Image 2 (stills — copperplate engravings, deco travel posters) and Kling 2.6 (video — the mercury owl, the breathing ink owl) through the Higgsfield CLI. Prompts were written per direction in that direction's own vocabulary, iterated until the asset looked commissioned rather than generated, then compressed hard (WebP / AV1) for the web.
Each direction was built as an independent static Astro site — no shared components, no shared CSS, so no direction could leak into another. Every build went through three mandatory iteration passes: screenshot the real rendered page, write at least five concrete criticisms, fix them, repeat. The criticisms are logged next to the code in qa/PASSES.md.
Every site is audited headlessly with Playwright: zero console errors and zero page errors tolerated, full-page screenshots at 1440×900 and 390×844, keyboard navigation checked, prefers-reduced-motion honored, payloads kept lean. The hero screenshots you see in the gallery are those QA captures.
Each site deploys to its own Cloudflare Pages project — nomadic-<slug>.pages.dev — plus this hub at nomadic-ten.pages.dev. Static output, self-hosted fonts, no runtime dependencies. And every site carries a /guide route like this one, explaining its own construction, so the whole exhibition is reproducible.
Every fact on every site comes from one shared
content.json — services, projects, contact copy.
The rule that made ten universes possible: never invent, only restage.