While i’m on the subject of Wordpress… here is one of our latest sites, built with the help of our friend WP…
Ankerside Shopping Centre (Tamworth) needed a web upgrade. The new site offers them full content management, including the ability to easily add content to the ‘what’s on’ section. The site also features an interactive store guide.
www.ankerside.co.uk
A few pictures of the yearbook we recently produced for Birmingham’s School of Architecture
We have just uploaded a new web site for St George’s School in Edgbaston. It was a great pleasure to work with the school and both parties are very pleased with the final result. The site runs a full content management system and has brought the school into the digital age with the likes of RSS feeds and an online calendar that allows the school staff to input and organise all events within the school calendar.
We are looking forward to seeing how the site is received and developing the site in the future with possible additions such as the implementation of more social/community features.
Visit the site at www.sgse.co.uk
Thanks to Stef Lewandowski, who is on the School’s Council of Trustees and Marketing Group, for preparing a clear and comprehensive brief as well as helping us to communicate the more technical elements of the web site to the staff and board members.
Artmarkt is a web site that profiles artists including graphic designers, illustrators and photographers. The web site showcases artwork and invites users to purchase this work in various sizes as prints or canvases. The site aims to help promote emerging artists as well as offering an outlet for established artists.
Take a look… www.artmarkt.net
by Chris Keenan
by Carlie Ness
by Kate Beatty
by Max Barrett
by Patrick Lawrence
by Daniel Cullen
The Birmingham School of Architecture are celebrating their 100 year anniversary this year, and needed a logo and a web site.
For the logo we worked with the head of department and tutors. They wanted something that would represent the school’s various locations over the past years and for the future. The school began at Margaret street, then moved to Gosta Green, to Perry Barr, back to Gosta Green, and then will move down to Eastside in the next few years. Hence the curve, which references the points of the geographical locations. This logo will be used to represent the school after the centenary has passed.
The web site’s main function is to advertise the centenary ball and allow students and alumni to purchase tickets. Once registered the alumni are given the opportunity to add a profile and search for other alumni and view their profiles (a sort of ‘friends reunited’ come ‘facebook’, only a tad simpler!). This web site will be reviewed after the ball and developed to use as the school’s main web site.
www.bsa-alumni.org.uk (won’t be able to view many pages without being a registered student or alumni of the school i’m afraid)
We have recently uploaded a web site called ‘first site‘ for MADE. This site will be a grower, and aims to represent young people’s views and voices on architecture and the projects they have engaged in. It is being launched officially tomorrow, along with other projects, at MADE’s symposium titled ‘Under the Influence - The power of young people to inform public space’. I’ll let Julia Ellis (Chief Executive of MADE) do the explaining…
‘Creative Communities is directed to increasing the voices of young people and helping to ensure their opinions are heard and acted upon. It started with Youth Space, a Government Office West Midlands Commission, where young people worked collaboratively with architects and artists to create their own spaces in 6 different parts of the region. Leading on from this, Creative Communities is strengthening the strategic regional context for young people’s sustainable and self-directed engagement with the designed environment, particularly within the planning and regeneration contexts. Creative Communities comprises three live projects and First Site, a virtual architecture centre for young people.’
The ‘First Site’ logo we created:
and the web site:
Birmingham was host to CABEs (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) Urban Design Summer School in 2007.
We produced the yearbook… (more pics/info here)
We have been very busy on the run up to Christmas so haven’t had time to develop any festive techy bits for your enjoyment, so sorry about that! We do wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year though.
We are closing down now, and will be reopening on the 3rd Jan. I am off to Australia for New Year, woohoo! then back in the office on the 18th January. Substrakt will be running as normal in the capable hands of Jim, Carlie, and Chris.
We launched a new flash web site last week for MADE. This web site was for a successful project they’ve been running titled ‘Making Sense of Places’. Check it out
We have just managed to add a few updates to our site detailing a few other projects that we have completed and are in the middle of. We also added an alternative CSS style sheet for those who couldn’t handle all the brownness!
We are pleased to announce the launch of Kate Beatty’s web site. Kate is an award winning Birmingham based photographer who has developed some outstanding personal projects as well as working on impressive commercial commissions.
She is also a great friend! see her new web site www.kate-beatty.co.uk
Selly Sausage was Substrakt’s very first client, we developed a web site for them 2 years ago. We have just updated Selly Sausage’s web site with a new style and a content management system, as they are now hosting events so needed the ability to keep a what’s on page regularly updated.
