Art Web Design
with Art Archives

Website design for artists, authors, and all who care for and promote substantial bodies of work. All-in-one website/archiving systems available.

Whether you’re an artist or an art collector, your website should not only display current projects but serve as a digital archive: a single, navigable catalogue of your output — works, exhibitions, publications, dates, editions and provenance. We build structured, custom WordPress websites that function as durable archives, supporting both long-term legacy and the ongoing organization and management of your work.

More than a portfolio

Waiting until your body of work spans years and years before setting up organization and management tools and legacy support will create late-career headaches—so we help you think through questions about how your website will support years of growth and change:

~ For whom does your work need to be structured and positioned?

~ How can your website support both public and private needs?

~ What will you need to manage growth five years from now?

We begin with a beautiful custom-designed portfolio website—and for some artists, that's all that's wanted for now. But every art website we create can be extended into a full digital art archive at any time.

The website and art archiving system are fully custom, entirely yours, and designed to grow over time.

A custom-designed artist's website with public pages
A shared cloud database for an artist's website'
Private art-archive records and reports
Custom Website Design Public pages tailored to your work
Same Database
Private Archives Extensive record-keeping & customized reports

Sample Websites

website design for a stained glass artist

The client had an existing website that was slow-loading and he wanted a new website that would be fast-loading, easy to find on search engines and also easy to update.

We designed a new website that is coded to function more efficiently and also communicates his expertise more clearly for his target clientele.

Visits to the website and time spent on the website by people searching for the kind of work he does have increased dramatically.
design with archiving for an artist - homepage

We designed this artist website with a long-scrolling homepage that allows a visitor to quickly see the range of the artwork in the context of the full career.

We also developed the website with a private archiving functionality behind the public website—allowing the managers to access and edit archival material relating to each artwork.
long-scroll homepage for an artist website

We designed this website for an artist whose work spans many media and many decades.

The challenge was to create a website that highlighted recent work while making vast troves of older work easily available for researchers.

The result is a website that is as easy to browse as a simple young artist's website, featuring options for users to open up deeper levels of information about any work within the long-scrolling pages.
web design for art consultant - long-scroll homepage

We designed this website for an art consultant establishing her own business after a career at Sotheby's.

Being a startup, there wasn't a large portfolio of client projects, so we embedded the Instagram feed to showcase the consultant's range of contemporary art picks from the gallery and auction house market—providing an alternate fresh sense of the consultant's aesthetic and network.
website designed for a memoir coach

We redesigned this website with a fresh and contemporary look, highlighting the needs of potential clients and how this coach works with people.

The SEO work was re-done with new structured data and the site was bringing more new inquiries within a week of its launch.
website design for an environmental scientist

We designed this website to showcase both the scholarly and field work of a renowned environmental scientist when she was looking to make a new career move.

A few months after the website's launch the client had an important new fellowship and shortly after that, she was offered the position of Research Director at an important non-profit aligned with her work.

What Clients Say

"The website rocks!!! Thank you—it really looks great and the search stuff is great too. A gallery saw my site and, because of what he called 'presentation,' they want to represent me."

- Sue C., Artist

"Each time we had our [workshop] session with you, I left with a greater understanding of how to communicate to reach an audience who may be interested and appreciate my work."

- Alice G., Artist

"I regularly get inquiries from people who say, 'I saw your website and it spoke to me more than the others.' My business has reached a whole new level of sustainability."

- Connie J., Memoir Coach

"I get many compliments on it from prospective patients—and those are the ones who are always a good fit. So literally, it works as a screening tool. I wasn't anticipating that, but it's been really helpful."

- Laura I., Psychotherapist

Let’s talk about how our web design and archiving expertise can help you actively reach higher levels of attention.

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