Case Study —

Carter House Museum

Tommy Fox

The Uncrowned King of St. David’s
A seven-slide character study built to carry Carter House’s visual language onto Instagram — and to prove that history content doesn’t have to look like a textbook.

Role

Capture, Create, Post

Platform

Instagram + Facebook

Deliverables

7 slides

The work

01

Lower left placement, always
Text anchored to the same corner across every slide so the eye learns where to land — a small consistency that makes a 7-slide story feel authored, not assembled.

02

The gold rule as a signature
One hairline, one weight, every slide. It echoes the brass fixtures in the museum itself and became the throughline the plant series now borrows from.

03

Patina over polish
Desaturated, slightly uneven colour treatment instead of a clean modern filter — the content should feel like it was found, not manufactured.

03

Display serif at scale
Large-format serif type does the emotional work a photo caption can’t — it gives Tommy Fox the same visual weight a exhibit placard would give him in person.

Process

Every post starts as a wireframe, not a photo edit.
Placement, hierarchy, and rule weight get decided before a single image is chosen — so the visual language holds up even when the source photo changes.