A custom website design & build.
We made it past 10 years, I always think that’s the sign of a good website. We made a site using Koken in 2013. The CMS came to an end some time ago, but we managed to make the site last. Alistair Shepherd’s post helped.
Sarah is ‘is a photographer, writer, and archival researcher. Through projects created in dialogue with communities, she shares stories about relationships to the land and its histories to excavate under-considered pasts and better understand the present.’
We aimed to draw on the success of the first site with Sarah’s new custom website design & build. The typography got excellent feedback and we wanted to keep that element. Guardian Egyptian with generous leading gives the text a literary, “published” feel. It aligns with the writer and researcher. We also wanted to give more focus to writing and books, to create a digital monograph.
There are writing projects laid out in a vertical, scroll-heavy format like an editorial photo essay: the narrative unfolds chronologically. There are photography portfolios that integrate text and images on the same plane. Reinforcing Sarah’s role as a “storyteller” and “researcher” in addition to being a visual artist. The context of the photo is as important as the photo itself.
We used WordPress as our base and designed and built a custom theme. It is hosted on wordpress.com. There is an aggressive use of white space to ensure the photography and words remain the focal point. Content-first perhaps: a bigflannel specialty. Designed for an audience that wants to look and read, not just click.