For the past 16 years the above images comprised the overall look of stevenlutz.com.

Using Photoshop, 4 layers were repeated with drop-shadows of varying direction and density, creating the shadowed openings.

The cut-outs featured information and accompanying photos for the individual pages.

The design was in place 2 years before Google introduced the concept, and practice, of material design; the art of showing physical world interaction through elevation and shadow in an artificial world.

Websites, OS’s, GUI’s – all became saturated with the ‘new look’; a look that added incredible dimension to a previously flat visual landscape.

I didn’t know CSS then, I barely knew HTML, but I knew what I wanted, and I knew there had to be a way to make it happen. I simply continued to dig and learn until I could make what was in my head a reality.

A practice I continue today.

Enjoy the look back at the old, as I work on the new, one last time.

Steven