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Harry Macheras

DIGITAL · 2025

SpaceOde

Digital platform system

Role

Creative direction, design system, art direction

Year

2025

Category

DIGITAL

Typographic grids, diagrams and a dark screen on a studio desk

01

Question

How does a digital product behave when its subject is heritage?

02

Idea

Design the quiet parts well: typography, spacing, states, motion budget.

03

World

Neutral surfaces, one accent, type as the primary structural device.

04

Making

  • Component and token architecture
  • Accessibility and contrast auditing
  • Motion specification with a strict budget

05

Experience

Interfaces that disappear behind the content they serve.

06

Result

A documented design system used across several products.

07

Reflection

Restraint is the hardest thing to specify and the easiest thing to lose.

Credits

  • Creative direction — Harry Macheras
  • Product — SpaceOde