2026
Lowtide
Three nights on the sand, one sunrise — and a site as loud as the main stage.
A loud, kinetic festival site: animated lineup, day-by-day timetable builder, ticket tiers and an accessibility & getting-there guide.
A self-initiated concept, designed like a real product.
The brief we set ourselves
Design the site of a three-night beach festival that feels like the poster and still works like a ticket shop: an animated lineup, a personal timetable that warns about clashes, honest ticket tiers and a mobile lineup for the walk between stages.
Who it is for
Music fans aged 18–35 who buy tickets early, plan their nights set by set and check the lineup on their phone at the festival.
What we designed
Home with the poster hero and kinetic ribbons, the timetable builder with a clash banner, tickets with tier progress on night glass, and the mobile lineup with saved sets.
Design facts from the concept files — not business results.
02ResearchLive music is at a record — festival sites still read like a PDF.
We checked where live music is going, collected festival and music-festival web work on Dribbble and Behance, and listed what fans actually do on a festival site: see who plays, plan the night, buy before the price goes up.
We checked where live music is going, collected festival and music-festival web work on Dribbble and Behance, and listed what fans actually do on a festival site: see who plays, plan the night, buy before the price goes up.
- Market
Live Nation reported a record 2025: $25.2B revenue (+9%) and 159M fans at 55,000 shows (+5%).
DecisionA growing audience that buys online: the ticket card lives on the hero, with tier and countdown visible from the first screen.
- Planning
Festival timetables in the work we collected are static grids — fans screenshot them and plan clashes in their heads.
DecisionA timetable builder: tap to save, a «My Friday» panel, clashes flagged with the overlap and the walking time between stages.
- Pricing
Tiered pricing is common, but sites rarely show how far a tier has sold or when the next one starts.
DecisionShow tier progress and the next price on the hero and the tickets page — «82% of Tier 2 sold · €219 from Tier 3» — and no booking fees.
Patterns we borrowed
- Festival posters
- Huge condensed caps on black strips, stickers and tilted cards
- Music apps
- Save a set with a heart, a personal schedule and «add to calendar»
- Event ticketing
- Ticket tiers with a progress bar, a quantity stepper and a sticky order bar
- Kinetic type
- Crossed marquee ribbons with artist names moving in opposite directions
What we left out
Names, artwork, logos and lineups of any real festival or artist. Lowtide has its own mark and graphics; the photos are concept images from the Fond without recognisable faces or brands.
Moodboard references
From a timetable grid to a night you plan in a minute.
Every «before» is generated from the very same page markup, reduced to outlines, readable labels and grey word-bars — no colour, photos, glass or ribbons. Drag a handle to compare.
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Hierarchy
Dates and place first, then the promise «Three nights / One sunrise», then the ticket card — the lineup starts right under the ribbons.
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Grid & density
A full-bleed poster hero, a 12-column lineup with two tilted photo cards and a typographic list; the timetable is stages × time from 18:00 to 06:00.
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States
Timetable blocks default / hover / saved / clash, a sold-out day, a featured tier, a quantity stepper, saved sets on mobile and a «glitch shift» hover on buttons.
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Contrast over acid graphics
Under big headlines the lime and pink lines dropped contrast to 1.0–2.5:1, so every headline sits on a black poster strip — now the worst pixel under hero text is 5.7:1.
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Glass at night
Night glass (66%, 28 px blur) for the navigation, ticket card, tier cards and the sticky buy bar — readable over the stage lights.
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Real-looking data
Forty acts across four stages, set times past midnight, a 15-minute clash with a 6-minute walk, €69 / €189 / +€45 tiers and a €378 order.
Acid lime is the button, hot pink is the warning.
On night black everything glows: acid lime carries every action with black text (17.8:1), hot pink (6.9:1) marks clashes, live and most-picked. Unbounded sets the loud headlines, Space Grotesk the timetable and prices.
A LOWTIDE wordmark where the «W» is a jagged surf wave with a pink glitch echo; the wave alone is the small mark. Picked from four sketched directions as the cleanest typographic sign.
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vs bg 16.69:1 · label 17.77:1
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on bg 6.91:1
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on bg 18.2:1
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text on it 18.2:1
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text on it 16.4:1
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on bg 8.45:1
Accent / bg 6.9:1 — hot pink passes for UI and text, so it is used for warnings and live labels, not as a second button colour.
Unbounded 800Lowtide
Unbounded 800Music fans 18–35
Space Grotesk 400 · 16/26A loud, kinetic festival site: animated lineup, day-by-day timetable builder, ticket tiers and an accessibility & getting-there guide.
Space Grotesk 600 · 12events / music & arts festival
From the first ribbon to the saved set.
Home
The stage photo with acid graphics, the poster headline, a glass Full Tide Pass card with tier progress and countdown, crossed lineup ribbons, «Lineup wave 1» and three stages.
Timetable builder
Four stages from 18:00 to 06:00 with saved and clashing sets, a clash banner with «Keep both» / «Pick one», and «My Friday» with walking times and add-to-calendar.
Tickets
Night glass over the shore: Day Tide with a sold-out Sunday, Full Tide Pass with a stepper, the camp add-on, tier 2 of 4 progress and a sticky order bar.
Lineup · mobile
Days as chips, the headliner as a photo card with a heart, a list of sets with save, and the sticky buy bar with the tier and «Get tickets».
Component sheet
Logo, the glass sticky buy bar, kinetic type lineup, ticket tier card (default / featured / sold out) with tier progress and stepper, FAQ accordion, timetable block in four states, buttons, chips and inputs.
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06SEOFound when fans search the lineup, the dates and the tickets.
Festival searches come in waves: lineup announcements, ticket tiers, then practical questions just before the gates open. The plan: keep the kinetic lineup and the timetable readable as text, map each wave to a page, give every artist and info topic its own URL, and keep an animated site fast on a phone.
Festival searches come in waves: lineup announcements, ticket tiers, then practical questions just before the gates open. The plan: keep the kinetic lineup and the timetable readable as text, map each wave to a page, give every artist and info topic its own URL, and keep an animated site fast on a phone.
Search snippets as we would write them — titles and descriptions drafted from this concept's own page copy, shown without any search engine's branding.
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Audit
A poster-loud site hides its words in animation — the audit makes sure every name and time is still text.
What we check- Lineup ribbons: artist names live in HTML text, the motion sits on top
- Timetable as text with times and stages, not a canvas or an image
- One canonical URL per ticket type; sold-out days stay with their status
- Dates, venue and prices identical on every page that mentions them
- Last year's pages archived or redirected, never simply deleted
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Keyword map
Each wave of the season gets its cluster, and each cluster its page — so the right page ranks when the wave hits.
Example clusters · no volumes, conceptLineuplowtide fest lineupbeach festival lineupTicketslowtide fest ticketsfestival camping ticketsPlanlowtide timetablefestival stage timesPracticalhow to get to lowtide festwhat to bring to a beach festival - 03
Site structure
Artists, ticket types and info topics each get a URL, so announcements and questions have somewhere to land.
Page planStructured dataMusicEventOffer + availabilityMusicGroupPlaceFAQPage/Home/lineup/Lineup/lineup/<artist>/Artist pages
/timetable/Timetable/tickets/Tickets/tickets/full-tide-pass/Ticket-type pages
/info/Info: travel, camping, FAQ
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Speed & Core Web Vitals
Fans open the site on a phone, often on a busy network, so motion and fonts get the strictest budget.
Targets · 75th percentile of visitsLCP< 2.5 sStage photo compressed and preloaded; kinetic ribbons in CSS, not videoINP< 200 msTimetable taps and the clash banner stay responsive on mid-range phonesCLS< 0.1Display fonts preloaded with matched fallbacks, so the loud headlines do not jumpThresholds are Google's published «good» values for Core Web Vitals — targets for the build, not measured results.
Questions & answers
Is Lowtide a real product?
No. Lowtide is a self-initiated concept by Omnisense — a brief we set ourselves, with no client and no business metrics. The festival, artists, stages, times and prices are sample data.
Who is the site for?
Music fans aged 18–35 who buy tickets early, plan their nights set by set and check the lineup on their phone at the festival.
What does the timetable builder do?
You tap to save a set, see your night in a «My Friday» panel, and get clashes flagged with the overlap and the walking time between stages.
What did you design?
Home with the poster hero and kinetic ribbons, the timetable builder with a clash banner, tickets with tier progress on night glass, and the mobile lineup with saved sets — plus a component sheet, logo, palette and type system.
Did you plan SEO too?
Yes. The plan keeps the kinetic lineup and the timetable readable as text, maps each wave of searches to a page, gives every artist and info topic its own URL, and keeps an animated site fast on a phone.
