Clinton Van Arnam — Design Portfolio

• inourti.me

  inourti.me uses facial recognition through a webcam to track the user's blinks, generating a new New York Times headline each time their eyes close and timing how long they spend reading it. The longer the read, the louder and more abrasive the sound triggered by the next blink. The project interrogates the 24-hour news cycle, click-bait economics, and the quiet surveillance baked into consumer hardware — using involuntary movement as both interface and indictment.

  • web design
  • research

  2024

• Super Saturated

  Exhibition identity and design for the 2024 RISD Graphic Design MFA thesis show, themed around Louis Rossetto's line: "in the age of information overload, the ultimate luxury is meaning and context." The space was built from tiled images cut out of the show's XL newspaper publication, alongside thesis books and an interactive piece that let visitors stretch type width with hand gestures — a responsive typographic logic that carries through to supersaturated.net and the full print system. The collaborative publication asked each graduating designer to respond to the Rossetto quote through a single spread restricted to photography, typography, or graphics; the center spread doubles as the exhibition poster.

  • web design
  • identity design

  2024

• Jessica Helfand

  Web design and CMS development for artist and writer Jessica Helfand, creating a functional, maintainable platform that uses interactive media to present 30 years of work through a structured editorial framework.

  • web design

  2025

• Nike All Star Weekend Game

  Motion assets made for jumbotrons and event visuals across the weekend. The system pulls from the bounce of the ball, the rhythm of play, and the gestures of the game. Built to hold up at scale and move with the room.

  • motion

  2025

• Your Brain on Art

  Motion design for Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen's keynote at BetterUp's Uplift conference, built for immersive 60-foot screens with responsive content that scales across the stage environment. Uplift is BetterUp's annual conference on leadership, performance, and human transformation at work. The talk examined how artistic experiences act as neurological catalysts — reshaping creativity, connection, and well-being in contemporary workplace culture.

  • motion

  

• Shona Kitchen

  Website design and build for the artist and educator. The site runs on a custom CMS that keeps the content legible while supporting generative, interactive components throughout. Those components reflect Kitchen's own digital research, pulling her practice into the structure of the site.

  • web design

  2025

• History of Now

  Built in collaboration with Informationart, the project translates Thomas Moynihan's research on existential risk and humanity's shifting sense of time into a 3D web environment. Historical predictions and temporal models unfold through spatial navigation and visual timelines, letting the reader move between essay and dataset in a single view. Motion, depth, and interactive structure turn abstract temporal concepts into something you can walk through.

  • web design

  2025

• WXY

  Identity and web design for WXY architecture + urban design, a studio working on civic and built-environment projects across New York and Toronto. The site organizes a deep catalog of work — projects, news, and research — into a structure that lets the architecture lead, with full-bleed imagery and quiet typographic framing. Built to scale with a practice that moves fluidly between buildings, public space, and long-form urban planning.

  • web design
  • identity design

  2025

• Comfort Magazine

  A spatial, interactive extension of the print publication that translates editorial content into motion and depth. Essays, images, and archival material unfold through non-linear navigation, replacing static layouts with a reading experience shaped by pacing and proximity. The build includes a custom CMS for editorial workflows and a bespoke storefront and backend supporting the magazine's catalog, books, and merchandise.

  • web design
  • identity design

  2025

• The Talent House

  Identity and website for The Talent House, a music school in Cypress, TX offering lessons across a wide range of instruments. The site runs on a stark black-and-white system with motion driving the identity, spanning instructor bios, a blog, and the standard pages a school needs. Embedded in the sidebar is a playable piano — click the bottom key and the navigation rotates open to reveal the full keyboard.

  • web design
  • identity design
  • motion