What If Orwell Had a Website?

• Agency: Holm
• Client: What If Orwell Had a Website?
• Category: Website Design (Experimental Website Design)
• Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
• Project Brief: Create an interactive website that reinterprets Orwell’s warnings about surveillance and authoritarianism through modern digital storytelling.

Most experimental websites mistake complexity for depth, but this one earns every technical decision by making the interface itself feel surveilled. Mathias Holm's "What If Orwell Had a Website?" uses GSAP and Three.js not to show off but to put the reader inside the paranoia of Nineteen Eighty-Four rather than just in front of it.

The cinematic scroll structure means the site behaves more like a film than a document. Each section advances the way a controlled state advances a narrative: deliberately, with no option to skip ahead.

The newspaper spread with its redacted body text and the Ministry of Truth byline is the design decision that does the most work. It reframes Orwell's fiction as a functional artifact rather than a literary reference, which is a harder thing to pull off than it looks.

Red and black carry the entire color system, with grain and analog texture keeping the digital execution from feeling too clean. The discomfort is the point, and the design never lets the reader forget it.