UNUM Ken Burns

Web Design — Film

UNUM Ken Burns — hero

Art Direction, UX & UI Design

A website for the famous documentarian Ken Burns. UNUM highlights themes throughout American history, drawing from Florentine Films' library of work, to advance a more comprehensive understanding of our past, present and future.

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UNUM homepage

Playlists

Current times bring up important events from the past. Playlists can be quickly curated to provide historical context.

Playlist curation interface

Content navigation

Jump to key parts of the editorial. We hint at the video, quotes, text formats with icons.

Content navigation with format icons
Theme carousel
  • Theme carousel — one
  • Theme carousel — two
  • Theme carousel — three
  • Theme carousel — four

Explore themes and topics

Because the photography content for the topics varied in resolution, color, and style, we overlaid them with key colors to unify their art direction while maintaining distinctiveness.

Topics unified with key-color overlays
Editorial cards
UNUM on mobile

Reoccurring events

Current events mapped against important moments from American history. Highlights from Ken Burns documentaries.

Editorial quote treatment
Timeline of recurring events