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Gloriously Irrational.

“Great branding gives permission to be gloriously irrational.”

My own brand philosophy, made into the interactive opening this site ran on until September 2026: a countdown, the Walker lockup, one statement and fifteen plates of typography, photography, halftone and motion, played by scroll.

Play the original opening Inspect every plate Watch it as a film
Project
Gloriously Irrational
Category
Brand philosophy & interactive motion
Scope
Writing · Art direction · Typography · Motion & interaction
Status
Independent study, preserved
Format
Replayable web experience · Film

01The Experience

The original opening, working. Open it and scroll.

Great branding gives permission to be gloriously irrational, set in Acid type on the silver plane of the original opening. Play the original opening

This is the sequence itself, not a recording of it, kept exactly as it ran. It plays from the countdown on every visit; Replay and a way back to this page stay in the lower left corner throughout, and it ends on a panel that returns here.

The same sequence as a silent film, scrolled at a reading pace, for when motion is off, autoplay is blocked, or you would rather watch than scroll.

02The Thesis

People don’t choose brands for reasons. They choose who they get to be.

Thesis

Great branding gives permission to be gloriously irrational.

Intervention

I translated a brand philosophy into an interactive sequence of typography, brand imagery, halftones and motion, one permission per plate, played by the reader’s own scroll.

Each plate states what a brand gives a person permission to do, in the first person, over a photograph of someone doing it: to witness what matters, to refuse the comfort of good enough, to let desire outrun reason. The sequence then turns the argument into a method, the three battles every brand fights, and ends on the person who makes it.

03Every Plate

Twenty compositions, in the order they play.

The opening’s five beats, then all fifteen plates, each captured at its settled hold. Select any one to see it at full size; on a phone the index shows the portrait compositions the sequence uses there. The brands are reference brands, chosen to illustrate the idea. None of them commissioned or endorsed this work.

The countdown on a Carbon ground: two Acid zeros at the centre.
00The countdown05 → 00A countdown from five resolves on two Acid zeros, which turn and become the ball of the W.
The Walker Design lockup, white type around the Acid W, centred on Carbon.
01The identityWalker DesignThe zeros become the W; the Walker Design lockup forms, then docks into the navigation.
Great branding gives permission to be gloriously irrational, in Acid type on silver.
02The statementGreat branding gives permission to be gloriously irrational.The plane lifts to silver and the statement arrives, set as one composed manifesto.
The statement collapsing into a single letterform on silver.
03The absorptionThe words are drawn into the O of GLORIOUSLY, letter by letter.
A single Acid ball on silver.
04The Acid markEverything the statement said becomes one Acid ball. Then it bursts, and its dots rebuild the first photograph.
A man photographing a murmuration of birds above a shoreline at dusk, in black and white.
05LeicaReference brandTo witness what matters.
A runner mid-stride beside a concrete wall, in black and white.
06NikeReference brandTo refuse the comfort of good enough.
A young man in glasses opening a laptop at a desk, in black and white.
07AppleReference brandTo treat the status quo as a design flaw.
A lone hiker on a mountain ridge above the clouds, in black and white.
08PatagoniaReference brandTo let what I love change how I live.
Four friends laughing and raising bottles of Coca-Cola at a café table, in black and white.
09Coca-ColaReference brandTo save joy a seat at the table.
A man with a cup and an open notebook at a window table, in black and white.
10StarbucksReference brandTo turn a routine into a ritual.
Riders on motorcycles on an open road through mountains, in black and white.
11Harley-DavidsonReference brandTo set more of myself free.
A woman dancing with headphones on, arms loose, in black and white.
12SpotifyReference brandTo live my life to music.
A musician playing an electric guitar beside his amplifiers, in black and white.
13FenderReference brandTo plug into a bigger conversation.
A man beside a classic Porsche 911 at a coastal overlook, in black and white.
14PorscheReference brandTo let desire outrun reason.
Three friends laughing over pints at a pub table, in black and white.
15Guinness · the thesisGreat branding gives permission. To be gloriously irrational.The closing thesis: the two statements the sequence opened on, said once more together.
Jason Walker working at a desk at night, a brand identity on the table, in black and white.
16Battle oneHelp them choose you.Positioning + differentiation = relevance.
Jason Walker drawing an identity by hand at a drafting table, in black and white.
17Battle twoHelp them love you.Give them identity + aspiration + affiliation.
A team reviewing brand system boards around a table, in black and white.
18Battle threeHelp your team own the brand.Brand identity + systems at scale on launch day.
Jason Walker reading at his desk, in black and white.
19Jason WalkerBrand strategy · identity systems · creative direction · marketing leadership · design managementThe sequence ends on the person who made the argument.

04How It Moves

One continuous material, moved only by the reader.

  • CountdownFive to zero on Carbon; the two zeros turn and become the Acid ball of the W, and the Walker Design lockup forms and docks into the navigation.
  • StatementThe plane lifts to silver and the statement arrives as one composed block in RadikalRec, lit by a single fixed light rather than shaded letter by letter.
  • AbsorptionThe words are drawn into the O, the letters become one Acid ball, and the ball bursts into a halftone field.
  • PlatesThe same dots reconstruct each photograph while its line settles into place; each plate holds, then ruptures into the next. Every plate has its own desktop and portrait composition.
  • ControlScroll drives every frame, forward and back; nothing plays on a timer after the countdown. A skip control reaches the end at any point, and reduced-motion settings are respected.

05Where It Stands

Retired from the homepage, preserved here intact.

This opening introduced JasonWalker.design through build 6.12.0. When the homepage moved to its current form in September 2026, the full sequence was kept here with its own copy of every script and stylesheet it depends on, so it cannot drift as the site changes. It is a personal study of a brand philosophy, not client work, and the brands on the plates are references, not clients.

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