Building a travel sketchbook sequence
How place drawings become a paced, interactive sequence on the homepage.
The homepage sketchbook moves through drawings of Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kamakura, Taipei, and Stanford. Together they form a small index of places rather than a conventional image carousel.
Start with landmarks, keep the details
A landmark makes a location immediately legible, but the useful observation often sits around it: the density of a crossing, the angle of a roof, a street edge, a vehicle, or the way people occupy the foreground. Those details keep a page from feeling like a generic travel icon.
Sequence creates a journey
The order of the drawings matters. Each automatic page turn should introduce a clear change in shape and place while still feeling like it belongs to the same book. Captions provide orientation without competing with the image.
Preserve manual control
The sequence plays automatically when the homepage opens, then remains available for direct exploration. Pointer and keyboard controls let the reader move at a different pace, while reduced-motion preferences skip the physical page-turn animation and reveal a stable view.
The result treats motion as part of the archive's structure: it suggests the act of moving through pages without turning the drawings into decoration.