F1 · Through Her Portrait
Through Her Portrait
The press kit opens on her portrait inside a gold-traced arch. Scroll and the photograph dims into a doorway, the arch swells past the edges of the screen, and you walk through it.
// Case Study CS8 · Press Kit
A press kit
you walk through.
T’Aura the Poet won Best Spiritual Poet at the 2024 National Spoken Word Awards and opened the ceremony. Bookers, festivals and galas need her bios, photos, video, credits and a way to book her. We made all of it a place.
Client
T’Aura the Poet
Industry
Music & Spoken Word
Delivered
November 2026
01 · Problem
Press kits are PDFs.
Her stage isn’t.
A booker deciding between poets gets a folder: a bio, three photos, a list of credits, an email address. It tells them what she’s done. It doesn’t make them feel the room going quiet when she starts.
Her kit had to do both jobs: give a booker everything they need in seconds, and be the one they remember and send to the rest of the committee.
02 · Approach
A house,
room by room.
We treated the kit as one house in her colors, forest green and gold. You enter through the arch of her portrait and walk a hall of the rooms she’s held, each one a stop with its story. The hall ends in a screening room for her films. Beyond it are the rooms a booker needs: her bio, what she’s booked for, her photos and the booking desk.
Every surface is a material from that house: verde marble, limestone, gold tesserae, lime plaster, a starry vault drawn from her album’s palette. The type sits on the scene itself, with no cards or boxes laid over it.
03 · Build
What we shipped.
F2 · The Rooms She’s Held
The Rooms She’s Held
A hall of arches rendered in light: verde marble, limestone, a starry vault. Each credential is a gold-mosaic niche, and the walk stops square-on at each one, with that night’s story set on the wall beside it.
F3 · Her Nights, Framed
Her Nights, Framed
Where a room has film, a gilt frame holds a still from that night, and the frame is the way into the video. Where there’s no film, the niche carries relief art from its own story: a bronze sunburst, a wheat sheaf, the Chicago star.
F4 · The Screening Room
The Screening Room
The hall ends in a room with one screen set into an arch. The player sits exactly on that screen, her set is lettered on the wall, and pressing play dims the room around her.
F5 · Bio Under the Vault
Bio Under the Vault
Her bio is set on the hall’s painted night, its gold stars glinting as the cursor moves. The facts a booker scans for hang beside it as stars tied to their phrases. Short and full bios and an emcee intro copy in one click.
F6 · Book Her For
Book Her For
The five things she’s booked for are cut in gilt on a limestone panel. Point at one and a raking light sweeps across that line alone, with what it is and her record of it on the wall. Choose it and booking opens with it filled in.
F7 · Photos, Cut for the Flyer
Photos, Cut for the Flyer
Her press photos hang in gilt frames on lime plaster beside a proof sheet that crops any of them for a flyer, a post, a story or a banner, downloadable at the right size, with the originals and a full set one click away.
F8 · Booking on Stone
Booking on Stone
The inquiry form is lettered onto polished verde antico: what for, the night, the room, the audience size and the budget, with a live summary of what she’ll receive. It lands in her inbox.
04 · Craft
How it’s made.
- Rendered
- The hall, its niches, the frieze and the screening room were built and ray-traced in Blender with real scanned materials, then played back as a walk you scrub with the scroll: a wide walk for desktop and an upright one for phones.
- Sharp stops
- Each stop has its own full-detail render that comes up the moment you arrive, so the walk can move fast and the credential still reads crisply.
- Live on top
- The stories, the video player and the hotspots are real page elements laid exactly onto the render, the player warped to the screen’s corners in perspective.
- Between rooms
- Each room opens over the last through an arch, the page’s own doorway, with a gold line on its edge. The room you leave holds and sinks into the dark.
- Underneath
- A plain list of every credential for search and screen readers, a still version when motion is off, and a booking form that keeps the inquiry even if a field can’t be stored.
// Selected screens
The hall, and the rooms beyond it.
05 · Outcome
One link
that books the room.
taurathepoet.com/press went live in November 2026. A booker gets her credits, her films, a short and a full bio, an emcee intro, photos cut to any format and a booking form, all in one link she can send anywhere.
Inquiries come in with the night, the city, the date, the audience size and the budget already written down.