soundsmint — Creative Director Competitions

20 concept sites across 4 rounds. Each is a complete, self-contained single-page website with interactive vinyl player.

The 7 strongest concepts — curated from all rounds
Featured
Monolith Mint

Monolith — Mint

"MINT BACKGROUND. WHITE WORDS."
Massive monolith typography on mint. One word per viewport. 3D turntable. Click to invert. Cycling events, merch, and word stream footer.
click to invert3D turntableword streamcycling content
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Concrete Silence

Concrete Silence

"SILENCE IS LOUD."
18vw headlines in vast white emptiness. 4 colors, zero transitions, crosshair cursor, scroll-snap.
18vw headlinesblend: difference4 colors only
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Redline

Redline

"DRAWN IN RED."
Red as architecture. 6px red rules, fixed margin line, red vinyl grooves, 20vw section numbers.
red as structure6px red rulesfixed margin line
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Retro Futurism

Retro Futurism

"Transmitting from the Future"
CSS Houdini @property, 3D preserve-3d, CRT curvature, typed text, card flips, iridescent vinyl, star field.
9x @propertypreserve-3dCRT curvature
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Magazine Collage

Magazine Collage

"MINT PRESS — VOL. 1, ISSUE 001"
Cut-and-paste magazine. Torn edges, Polaroids, 5 fonts, stamps, stickers, scissors perforation.
80 rotations5 mixed fontstorn edges
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Brutalist Press

Brutalist Press

"SOUND IS A WEAPON."
Monospace-only, blend: difference, rotated sections, CSS counters at 35vw, wireframe vinyl, marquees.
Space Mono onlyrotated sectionsmarquee strips
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Minimal Gallery

Minimal Gallery

"Listen closely."
4 colors, scroll-snap, 58 clamp() expressions, red dot cursor, sonar ping vinyl, counter sidebar.
4 colors onlyscroll-snapsonar ping
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6 pure creative directions — each exploring one aesthetic to its limit
CD6

Magazine Collage

"MINT PRESS — VOL. 1, ISSUE 001"
Cut-and-paste magazine. Torn edges, Polaroids, 5 fonts, stamps, stickers, scissors perforation, cork-board textures.
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CD4

Retro Futurism

"Transmitting from the Future"
CSS Houdini @property, 3D preserve-3d, CRT curvature, typed text, card flips, iridescent vinyl, star field, mesh gradients.
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CD1

Noir Vinyl

"Where Sound Meets the Underground"
Real translateZ parallax, SVG feTurbulence noise, torn clip-path merch, 50+ grooves, 15 dust particles, custom cursor.
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CD2

Botanical Mint

"Rooted in Sound. Blooming in Silence."
5 hand-drawn SVG botanicals, glass dome terrarium vinyl, stroke-dashoffset vines, shape-outside, vertical writing-mode.
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CD3

Brutalist Press

"SOUND IS A WEAPON."
Monospace-only, blend: difference, rotated sections, CSS counters at 35vw, wireframe vinyl, marquee strips, crosshair.
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CD5

Minimal Gallery

"Listen closely."
4 colors, scroll-snap mandatory, 58 clamp(), red dot cursor, sonar ping vinyl, 5 single-line SVGs, counter sidebar.
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6 hybrid blends — colliding two aesthetics to create something new
Retro-Future × Minimal
RF × MIN
Blend 1A

Void Chrome

"Transmitting from the Void"
Holographic stripped to essence. 90% dark void, ONE glass panel per section, conic-gradient border, Outfit 300.
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RF × MIN
Blend 1B

Signal

"SIGNAL_ACQUIRED // FREQUENCY_LOCKED"
Terminal HUD from 2077 by a Bauhaus student. Monospace, data readouts, wireframe containers, blinking cursors.
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Brutalist × Minimal
BRT × MIN
Blend 2A

Concrete Silence

"SILENCE IS LOUD."
Massive monospace in vast white emptiness. 85% negative space, 18vw headlines, 4 colors, zero transitions.
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BRT × MIN
Blend 2B

Grid Law

"ORDER IN CHAOS."
Swiss International Style gone punk. 12-column grid, visible gridlines, weight-900 Inter, 20vw red section numbers.
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Brutalist × Retro-Future
BRT × RF
Blend 3A

Glitch Protocol

"> PROTOCOL_ACTIVE // SOUNDSMINT_V2.1"
Hacked mainframe. CRT scanlines, phosphor glow, glitch animations, ASCII dividers, terminal prompts.
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BRT × RF
Blend 3B

Reactor

"REACTOR ONLINE // CORE STABLE"
Nuclear reactor control room. Glass + thick borders, perspective grid floor, neon glow, warning stripes, 3D tilts.
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8 variations of Concrete Silence — same DNA, different aesthetic thesis
Winner
CS-1M

Monolith — Mint

"MINT BACKGROUND. WHITE WORDS."
The Monolith in mint. 3D turntable, click to invert, cycling events/merch, generative word stream footer.
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CS-1

Monolith

"ONE WORD PER VIEWPORT."
Each word at 50vw IS the section. LISTEN / COME / WEAR / STAY / END. Content as microscopic footnotes.
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CS-1W

Monolith — Mint on White

"WHITE SPACE. MINT WORDS."
Massive mint green words floating in white emptiness. Fresh, clean, striking.
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CS-2

Negative

"SILENCE IS LOUD."
Full inversion — white on black. Cosmic void. White vinyl grooves against the abyss. Depth through opacity.
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CS-3

Redline

"DRAWN IN RED."
Red as architecture. 6px red rules, fixed margin line, 8 red vinyl grooves, 20vw red section numbers.
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CS-4

Specimen

"A STUDY IN TYPE."
Type foundry catalog. Metadata labels, type waterfalls, weight comparisons, character set footer.
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CS-5

Offset

"OFF CENTER."
Nothing centered. 3-column grid with empty center spine. Content pushed to edges. Asymmetry as ideology.
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CS-6

Pulse

"THE ONLY THING THAT MOVES."
ONE animation on the entire page. Mint sonar ring expanding from the vinyl every 3s. Everything else frozen.
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