Jake Dow-Smith

What it is

This is the personal website of Jake Dow-Smith, a designer who leads design at Trestle Inc. The site serves as a professional hub for his design practice, teaching history at Central St Martins, and ongoing projects like the analog camera app Soft.

Structure & content

The content is presented as a single narrative paragraph. It lists current and past professional roles, notable clients such as Fred Perry and Are.na, and links to interviews in publications like It’s Nice That and Frontier.

Why study it

The site uses a condensed, text-only format to present a professional biography and portfolio links without traditional navigation or image galleries. It demonstrates how to consolidate diverse professional activities—from corporate leadership to nonprofit work—into a single, linked paragraph.