Windfall

Windfall is a website for a restaurant whose menu follows what arrives. Its first screen is a still life: quince, crab, squash and seven more fall onto the page around a headline set at poster size, settle with a spring, then move with the pointer and the scroll. Below it the home page runs to sixteen sections: the week in one sentence with the produce set in the line, a wall of arrivals, a thread that draws a line from any arrival to the dishes that use it, the kitchen's five courses beside a plate that turns as you scroll, the room, six growers in a row you pull sideways, the week day by day, a season chart, suppers with seats left, private rooms, wines by the glass, press, journal, a drawn map and a closing still life. A second home page opens on a full-screen photograph instead.

There are 24 page types, among them a menu in four cards, a page for each of fourteen ingredients, six growers, six suppers, six notes and six people, private dining, gift cards, a four-step booking request, questions, careers, a style guide and a licence and changelog page. The masthead says whether the restaurant is open right now in its own time zone. The week, the hours, the arrivals and the menus are each set once in typed files and every page reads from them.

The palette is quiet on purpose: plate white, a blue-black ink taken from mussel shells, and one radicchio-crimson accent that marks what is chosen. The rest of the colour comes from the food, shown as cut-outs, and from photographs that share one warm grade, as if lit by the same kitchen. Type is Gloock with Schibsted Grotesk. Every page is designed in light and in dark, the layout adapts to desktop, tablet and phone, and every motion becomes still when a visitor asks for reduced motion. The restaurant, its growers and its prices are invented, and the photographs are for demonstration only, so replace them with your own before you publish.