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Julie Ann
Tharakan

A portfolio site for an architect, anthropologist and associate professor at WCFA, Mysuru.

Role
Design and development
Client
Julie Ann Tharakan
Year
2024
Platform
Static site, single page
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Julie Ann Tharakan site home screen: a round portrait beside her name set large in serif, rust accent on "Ann".
Julie Ann Tharakan site on a phone: portrait above her name, centred.

The brief

Julie's work spans research, teaching, heritage walks and writing, and it was scattered across a CV, conference papers and Instagram. She needed one place where a hiring committee, a student or a collaborator could see all of it, in the order an academic reads: who she is, what she researches, how she teaches, and what she has written.

What I built

I set the site like a journal rather than a portfolio template. Six sections (About, Research, Pedagogy, Writing, CV, Contact) run down one page, each marked with a section sign so it reads like a paper. Cormorant Garamond carries the reading text, and Inconsolata handles labels, dates and navigation the way footnotes would. Warm paper and a single rust accent keep the focus on the words.

  • Featured research gets a sidebar with role, institution, period and method, so the facts sit next to the prose.
  • Academic initiatives and guided theses run side by side with dates, so the teaching record reads as a timeline.
  • Every paper and article links out to where it was published.
  • The CV lives on the page and as a PDF download.
  • The research section links straight into the HOA exhibition site, which I also built.
About section: a drop-cap paragraph with her title and institution set as a margin note.
About: drop-cap opening, with title and institution as a margin note.
Research section: featured heritage documentation project with a facts sidebar.
Research: the featured project, with its facts in a sidebar.
Pedagogy section: academic initiatives and theses guided, in two columns.
Pedagogy: initiatives and guided theses in two columns.
Writing section: papers and talks listed by year, each with a link button.
Writing: papers and talks by year, each linking to the source.
CV section: experience and education lists with a PDF download button.
CV: experience and education, plus a PDF download.
Contact section: italic serif headline above email and location cards.
Contact: email and location, nothing else.
Julie Ann Tharakan site on a phone: portrait above her name, centred.
Research section on a phone: featured project title in italic serif with its summary.
On a phone, the same journal order in a single column.

Outcome

One link Julie can share for applications, conferences and students, with her research, teaching and writing in one place. It reads the same on a phone as on a desktop.

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HTML CSS JavaScript Cormorant Garamond Inconsolata
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