30/07/2026
When I first met with Victoria Scott-Miller at Liberation Station Bookstore Victoria Scott-Miller | Liberation Station, she made one thing very clear: every decision should serve the community. That statement became the foundation for every design decision.
This project included branding, UX, animation, custom development, and storytelling.
🎨 From the start, I focused less on the individual colors and more on the feeling they create. Liberation Station is warm, welcoming, and hopeful. A soft spring green became the anchor, complemented by subtle yellows and oranges that added warmth without overpowering the experience.
Next, we brought their iconic sun 🌞 (illustrated by Alison Hawkins) to life. Starting with the original Adobe Illustrator artwork, we animated it in Adobe After Effects with soft floating motion before weaving it throughout the website. As visitors scroll, the sun appears at different moments, almost like a friendly bookstore host guiding them through the experience.
📖 But the heart of this website is its story.
Liberation Station has experienced incredible highs, heartbreaking setbacks, and an inspiring reopening made possible by the very community it serves. Rather than asking visitors to read that story, we wanted them to experience it. We transformed the bookstore’s illustrations into interactive Lottie animations, allowing users to control the pace as the story unfolds. The journey ends with an invitation to become part of Liberation Station’s next chapter because great storytelling should always inspire action.
📅 Finally, we built a completely custom event experience. Every event serves a different purpose, and we couldn’t find a solution that fit their needs out of the box. So we built one. Their team can now create one time events, recurring events, paid events, registration based events, and capacity limited events, all while making management simple behind the scenes and the experience seamless for the community.