Personal portfolio for Kiah Harpool, a Chicago media leader and systems thinker working across media investment, strategy, operations, AI workflows, and culture.
Live site: https://kiahharpool.com/
This site is an editorial home base for professional work, leadership, recognition, and independent experiments. The work is connected by a recurring interest in making hidden logic visible and complicated systems easier to navigate.
The visual direction combines oversized editorial typography, soft-brutalist structure, and a plum, lavender, and blush palette.
The portfolio currently includes:
- Acquired — a museum-inspired personal object archive
- Lakeglass — a Lake Michigan beach-glass field guide and local specimen archive
- First Light
- Duel Cut
- Encore
- Points
- Duel Draw
Each project has a dedicated case-study or project page, with links to the live experiment and source repository where appropriate.
Built with Astro 7, TypeScript, MDX, self-hosted Fontsource typography, Satori and Sharp for Open Graph images, and GitHub Pages for hosting.
npm install
npm run devRun the full validation locally with:
npm run format:check
npm run check
npm run buildProduction is built and deployed exclusively from main to GitHub Pages at https://kiahharpool.com/. The site is configured for the custom-domain root (/) rather than a repository subpath. The former redesign branch, soft-brutalist-editorial, is archived and no longer participates in the GitHub Pages deployment.