Mournin Crimson - a mystic-gothic band from Belarus

Type of work: Website design

A night at full moon is the time when all the scariest stories come alive, when you walk past an abandoned graveyard and every sound makes your hair stand on end. But if you look at it from another angle, there is a hidden beauty in all of this, known as the gothic. Its own romance, its own images and feelings. It is impossible to convey the whole range of emotions in a single image; we only tried, as far as we could, to reflect the atmosphere and convey through our design the images and motifs of the band's work.

Mournin-Crimson.com is the official website of the Belarusian mystic-gothic band, so beyond atmosphere it had to do the practical work of an official band site: to be the place where fans find authentic information about the band, its music and its news, and where people who have just heard of the band can get to know it. An official site carries the band's voice, and every visual choice on it is read by fans as a statement about the band itself.

The night, the full moon and the abandoned graveyard of the band's imagery became the starting point of the design. We worked with these motifs as with a mood rather than a set of decorations: dark backgrounds, a cold moonlit palette and mystical details that create the feeling of stepping into the band's world, while the information - about the band, its releases and its activities - remains readable and easy to find. The challenge was to show the romance and hidden beauty of the gothic, not only its fear, because that duality is at the heart of the band's work.

The search phrases the site was built for - Mournin Crimson, Belarusian band, music band, gothic, mysticism, mystic-gothic band - include both the band's name and the genre. The design serves both kinds of visitors: devoted fans who search for the band directly and listeners of gothic and mystical music who discover it through the genre.