Hamish Brown

Recently we have been collaborating with several other studios and agencies on projects. It’s been really interesting working with other creatives from all areas of the industry. Notably, earlier in the summer we were approached by design agency Studio1440 to collaborate on an exciting project for photographer and director Hamish Brown. With strong experience in editorial and digital design, Studio1440 asked us to support with the development side of the project with the objective of building an intuitive content upload system, a platform that effectively showcases his work and offers the user the best experience in terms of loading speed and performance.

We started by building a content management system specific to the project and user – Hamish historically found it frustrating updating his old site, and therefore rarely did he ever add new content in and promote new work. Upon receiving draft designs from Studio1440, we then began discussing how transitions could work in the best way, optimising the design best for mobile and UX, and also how we could protect Hamish’s work. The idea around this was to showcase work as crisp and clear as possible, the last thing we wanted was to drop a watermark over the top, so we took some steps to prevent the images easily being copied.

Due to the sheer amount of great quality content to show, the goal was to have each page feel like it was constantly changing. This was achieved through alternating images on the homepage and enabling various gallery grids to ‘shuffle’ in their layout. A parallax effect has also been subtly distributed throughout the pages, combined with animation, to support this approach.