Case study · Brand and website
Música Maldita
A weekly podcast/mixtape with an identity of its own: logo, posters, T-shirts and a website where you can listen to every episode.
- Project
- Música Maldita
Weekly podcast/mixtape - Scope
- Visual identity · Posters and merchandise
Web design and development - Format
- One-page website
Custom audio player
Light and dark mode
The challenge
Give a face and a home to a podcast that proudly follows no algorithm.
Música Maldita (“cursed music”) is a hand-picked selection of songs, with a new episode every week—“music with no filters and no algorithms.” It needed a brand that worked just as well on an avatar as on a poster or a T-shirt, and a website of its own where people could play the full archive, episode by episode, as easily as in a music app.
Brand
A circular seal, like a record, with a line-drawn ear that turns into a cable and ends in a jack.
Listening
A custom player on every episode, a mini player that follows you as you browse, and continuous playback from one episode to the next.
Rhythm
A new episode every week. The site publishes it automatically on its release date and tags it as new, and every release gets its own poster.
The identity
An ear, a cable and a record.
The logo works like a seal: a black circle with the name around the edge and, in the center, an ear drawn with a single red line that turns into a cable and ends in a jack. Listen, plug in, hit play. On the site, it draws itself stroke by stroke as the page loads, and it spins like a vinyl record while an episode plays.
The site
An archive you listen to from top to bottom.
One page: the latest episode at the top and the whole archive below it, on a timeline. No sign-ups, no screens in between: just show up and hit play.
The latest episode at the top, tagged as new, and the rest on a timeline.
Each episode expands to show its songs without leaving the page.
The card that’s playing lights up, the mini player appears and a heart saves the episode to favorites.
Episodes devoted to a single album show its cover on the timeline and link to Spotify and Apple Music.
Switch between light and dark in one tap; the site remembers your choice.
Search by artist or song to jump straight to the right episode, with its tracklist open.
Light and dark
For listening day and night.
Every color on the site comes from a single set of variables, so dark mode isn’t a separate layer: the background, cards and text change, while the brand red stays put. The site starts in light mode, switches with one tap and remembers your choice for next time, with no flash on load.
The full page
Top to bottom, as you scroll
Under the hood
Lightweight, custom-built and easy to maintain.
Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no frameworks, built with the help of AI (vibe coding).
Custom player
One track at a time, a mini player synced with each card, 15-second skips and resume from where you left off.
Scheduled publishing
Each episode can be given a release date. It goes live that day, tagged as new, without touching any code.
Remembers the listener
Favorites, light or dark theme, continuous playback and listening position are saved in each visitor’s browser.
Fast
An optimized SVG logo, self-hosted fonts and no external libraries: a Lighthouse score of 98 on desktop.