Wayspace

Design

How the design system got here, along with some flyers, covers, and logos made along the way.

How this came to be

This design system has been cultivated over the course of 10 or so years, but it really started showing sprouts in 2020 when I transitioned my artistic identity from Jahn Rome to Jackintheway. That’s when the Wayspace name and early color scheme arrived, and it’s been a steady refinement ever since.

  1. 2021

    The tool pack

    Six objects, with each one representing a different quality. Building these prototypes helped me to develop the adventurous, playful, yet tangible feel that Wayspace would come to have.

    • 2022

      Wayspace, the album

      This is the culmination of years of design and music growth, arriving here in Wayspace. This is an arrival, a homecoming. I built out the dimension with characters, and they welcome us!

      • 2023

        The Wayspace podcast cover

        I brought the puzzle pieces forward, rebuilt the wordmark out of those same blocks, and flattened the ground to blue.

        The Wayspace podcast cover. Six orange and yellow puzzle pieces surround the Wayspace wordmark on a flat blue ground.
      • Now

        This site

        Six colors, one outline weight, Archivo set heavy, and a lot of squares.

        I built it on tokens, so every color has a name and every page reads from the same file. The swatches below come straight out of it.

        • Orange
        • Blue
        • Yellow
        • Green
        • Salmon
        • Brown
        • Paper

      Other design work

      Logos and show flyers, some of them from before Wayspace had a name.