Middle of nowhere 404 website design

Middle of nowhere 404 website design
by Yijia Xie

• Awarded April 15, 2022
• CLIENT: IBM Research
• 60.685

Middle of Nowhere is a 404 error page created for a research organization website. A 404 page appears when a requested webpage does not exist, and this design turns that moment into a visit to imagined places. The landscapes shown are made by a generative adversarial network, a machine learning model trained on thousands of photographs of real landscapes from around the world. The results are places that exist nowhere. The page is built as a responsive website, and the intent is to make being lost online calm and engaging.