Last week in the studio (CW21-26)

In this regular “Last week in the studio” series, I write about what I worked on during the previous week. Last week was one without a solid piece of work to tackle. Instead, I spent it on some updates to a client’s design and on making a little website for myself.

More for Black Mountain Honey

Paul and I have been working on Black Mountain Honey for the past few months. Paul’s been on the strategy, while I’ve worked on the visual identity and creative, including the website design.

Black Mountain Honey’s current website is built on Wix Studio, but after looking at solutions that will enable the business to scale, Paul recommended a mix of Circle for the community, WordPress, and WooCommerce for the store.

That meant me redesigning several key pages and producing templates for the WordPress developer to work on.

When these designs were approved, I exported all the assets, optimised them, and added them to the style guide library I’d previously created for Black Mountain Honey.

Entire Property Direct

After months on hiatus, I received a surprise message on Wednesday from Entire Property Direct asking me to put the website I’d worked on earlier in the year live. Fortunately, the website was already set up on Netlify, so it took only a few minutes to navigate their domain registrar’s control panel.

A little website for myself

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a talk I’ll be giving at a conference in Berlin in a couple of weeks. It’s called The designer’s scrapbook: Rethinking AI as a creative tool.

One example I use to illustrate my process is this animated graphic of my alter ego, Albert Galoshe. It seemed a shame not to use it elsewhere, and as I’d been meaning to make a little website for myself, using Albert felt right.

There’s nothing much to see or do on this new website, but it was a fun way to spend the end of the week before the long Bank Holiday weekend.