The Loom Menu: San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

The hamburger icon was the starting point. Its three stripes are now crossed by vertical ribbons, six strips in total that slide continuously over and under each other on a short loop, so the icon reads as a loom mid-weave instead of a stack of lines.

Opening the menu fills the screen with a grid of cloth ribbons, some running horizontally, some vertically. The eight ribbon colors are sampled from the hero quilt image on the museum's homepage, so the menu's palette comes straight from the collection. Each ribbon slides in from alternating sides, and at every crossing the ribbons are cut into segments that pass over and under their neighbors, which makes the grid read as one interlaced surface rather than layers stacked on top of each other. Choosing a section re-weaves the grid into that section's pages, and closing the menu runs the weave in reverse until the ribbons slide back out.