# Portals to beautiful futures

> An editorial futures report with colorful portal imagery, cloud-filled provocation spreads, interconnected trend diagrams, speculative artifact collages, narrative columns, and a possibility-rating worksheet.

- Kind: Slides
- Live deck: https://omidyar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Portals-to-Beautiful-Futures-2021.pdf
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/agent.txt
- Authorship: Not stated
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Zines; editorial, surreal collage, pastel, expressive typography, diagrammatic, arch motifs, color blocking
- Slides: 42
- Preview: a flip-through of inspected screenshots; open the live work to experience its motion and interactions.
- Shared by Sharon Chang and Sheena Matheiken in Website, April 2021: https://www.solano.io/portals
- Prompt fidelity: Unavailable in this entry. The recreation brief is written by Reference.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this deck

This is a visual reference. No original creator prompt is available. The following brief was written by Reference after inspecting the work.

Build an editorial sequence that alternates expansive image-led openers with dense but orderly reading pages and custom analytical diagrams. Repeat an architectural image mask and thin looping linework to connect the sequence, while using displaced serif letters sparingly as a recognizable heading treatment. For a new subject, replace the landscape, human cutouts, speculative object, and diagram labels with subject-specific imagery and relationships while retaining the navy anchor color and differentiated page backgrounds.

1. Open the live work or source and inspect the frame images below.
2. Adapt its layout, hierarchy, palette, and interaction patterns to the user's own content and brand.
3. Compare the result against the reference. Use your own assets and credit the original creator.

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the captured walkthrough frames, not by the creator.

A designed publication titled “Portals to Beautiful Futures,” combining future-focused topics, architectural imagery, and editorial information graphics.

- Color: Varied page backgrounds in deep navy, mint green, pale cream, coral, lavender, and muted pink, with dark text and occasional bright accent colors.
- Type: Large uppercase serif display headlines paired with small, compact sans-serif body text and labels.
- Framing: Landscape pages alternate expansive collage and headline areas with aligned editorial columns, thin vertical rules, diagrams and compact captions.
- Structure: A sequence of editorial pages covering themes including provocation, trends, imagination, historic design, current architecture, speculative artifacts, possible futures, and credits.

Storyboard of the slides: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/storyboard.webp

- Slide 1: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/f1.webp
- Slide 6: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/f2.webp
- Slide 11: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/f3.webp
- Slide 16: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/f4.webp
- Slide 21: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/f5.webp
- Slide 27: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/f6.webp
- Slide 32: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/f7.webp
- Slide 37: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/f8.webp
- Slide 42: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-portals-beautiful-futures/f9.webp

## Links

- View deck: https://omidyar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Portals-to-Beautiful-Futures-2021.pdf
- Original post: https://www.solano.io/portals
- Discovery: Deck.gallery: https://www.deck.gallery/portals-to-beautiful-futures/
- Publisher: Omidyar Network and Guild of Future Architects: https://omidyar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Portals-to-Beautiful-Futures-2021.pdf