Forge Project’s website begins by asking visitors to acknowledge where they are. Before entering, they affirm three statements recognizing the Moh-He-Con-Nuck, their relationship to the land, and their sovereignty.

We worked with Other Means on the website design for the Native-led arts and culture organization in Taghkanic, New York. The site brings together its public programs, fellowship, and collection of contemporary Indigenous art.

We designed the homepage as a report from a particular place. Graphical widgets for local temperature, seasonal rainfall, and moon phases sit among program announcements and artworks, alongside illustrations of seasonal plants and animals found on the land. A fellowship deadline shares the page with a rabbit. The surrounding landscape has things to report, too.

The collection can be browsed by decade, medium, or artist, with detailed images of individual works. The Toolkit gathers links and resources into geometric cards that change shape and color. Saturated colors and duotone photographs carry through the site, alongside quieter typography for longer reading.

The identity’s custom typeface takes its rectangular modules from the gridded façade of Forge’s building. The website introduced Forging, a digital journal with a new, rounder typeface built on the same underlying grid. On screen, the architecture has fewer structural obligations. Headings stretch across the page, then compress when the navigation opens above them. They can be enormous, but the menu still gets its way.