This project was originally intended to be a video documentary about embalming, but I realized that hardly anyone would choose to watch a movie on such a topic. How can I get an audience interested in a topic they avoid? Online quizzes!
So I moved the project to the web, with the intent of designing a site where people 'buried' themselves, 'cremated' themselves, forcing folks to think about what they're doing, and hopefully encouraging exploration.
Once I figured out how to get all the quizzes and scrolling pages to work, I submitted a draft to the Order of the Good Death's Fellowship program. Their supporting funds gave me the time and focus to complete the project and get it online.
My name is Brian Walsh, and I teach in the Department of Communcations at Elon University in North Carolina.
I built this site without frameworks or stock imagery, using HTML, CSS, & JavaScript. The images are all SVGs, and are animated using Greensock and Fullpage.js. I styled the images by using the 'Trace Image' function in Adobe Illustrator, and cleaned them up using SVGOMG. You can see a video of my process here.