Take the 2-minute tour ×  First a bit of context:  I have been
falling victim more and more to "Pinterestization" or the
"Pinterest Trap" in my design. I have a feeling I'm not the only
one. See this excerpt from Hana Schank in UX Mag's 2013 Year in
Review article:  "This year, we saw a trend that started to take
hold late in 2012 with the rise of Pinterest spiral out of
control—namely that a good chunk of the web started to look like
Pinterest, with blocky images replacing content and navigation
shunted to the side […] My hunch is that we’ll look back in a
few years and wonder why so many interfaces were a group of
pictures in boxes. Here’s hoping that this trend is on its way
out."  I agree with her. The same could be said for the
ubiquitous "Metro" layouts.  But what are the alternatives?
I'll cut to the chase: I am working on a portfolio site for a
large organization and it will probably end up looking something
like this:   Here's the issue I keep running into on this and
other projects:  This treatment