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About Palauan Bai Storyboard

The Palauan bai storyboard tradition transforms architecture into sequential narrative — carved and painted friezes running beneath the eaves of men's meeting houses, depicting clan myths, fishing scenes, and moral tales in a hard red-yellow-white-black palette. Each panel reads like a comic strip rendered in wood.

This design system channels that graphic energy: bilateral symmetry, repeating panel rhythm, stylised circle-eye figures, and the unmistakable bai red ground that makes every surface feel like a carved gable brought to screen.

Learn more about the Palauan Bai Storyboard style

Origin
Palau (Koror, Babeldaob), western Micronesia
Era
traditional bai building since ~1700; storyboard collecting since 1945 US trusteeship
Key figures
Charlie Gibbons · Augustin Krämer · Robert Owen · Sue Rosoff
Movements
Micronesian architecture · post-WWII Pacific carving revival · narrative folk art

Palauan Bai Storyboard design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

Archivo BlackHeadings
ArchivoBody
DM MonoMono
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