November 23, 2011

The Joe Locke / Geoffrey Keezer Group's microsite

The award winning quartet faturing co-leaders Joe Locke and Geoffrey Keezer with Terreon Gully (drums and Mike Pope (bass), that's about to release their first studio album in Spring 2012, now has a dedicated microsite to keep fans and the media in the loop. Since their highly praised debut disc "Live In Seattle" (Origin, 2005), recorded at the 2004 Ballard Festival, the band has been keen to go into the studio with some new material. To target an international promoter and venue scene, including print and online press, this microsite will compress all up-to-date information about the upcoming release, coverage and availability: www.lockekeezer.com

August 31, 2011

Joe Locke's Music Store

Building a CMS driven eCommerce site, with only basic pre-coded application assets, is not exactly a web designer's dream project. Far too many tiny components make up the fragile functionality. But the challenge was self chosen and turned into a satisfying learning experience. After a few weeks of sweating over shipping calculators and nested if-conditions, we have finally launched this new store for Jazz artist Joe Locke, providing him with a new channel to distribute and present his original music, CDs, downloads and digital charts... Visit store.joelocke.com

June 12, 2011

Brad & Elliot Mason's "Two Sides, One Story"

In time for the long awaited release of Brad and Elliot Mason's debut album "Two Sides, One Story" (Archival Records, 2010), their website received a gentle visual refresh to bring it inline with the design of the album. As things go, once the sleeves are rolled up and a certain amount of code edits are being tackled, other optimisations are suddenly on the radar. The tour calendar is now beimg maintained through GigPress, a fantastic WordPress plugin for artists and agencies. A more major addition to the site is the new web store - a simple solution to sell "Two Sides, One Story" as CD or download directly through the website.

January 11, 2011

Storms/Nocturnes

Supporting their long awaited third album, "VIA" - which will be released on Origin Records in April 2011 - the Storms/Nocturnes Trio now have a dedicated website to promote a steaming amount of activity in 2011 and beyond. Joe Locke, Tim Garland and Geoffrey Keezer have finally found time in the busy schedules to reunite after seven years and perform and record new music. The purity of their sound has now been further enriched by a mature warmth and the selfassurance of three instrumental masters on the very top of their game, who know exactly where they come from, and who are still excited about where their music will take them.

September 01, 2010

Tommy Smith - upgraded

We've been working with Tommy Smith - the Scottish saxophonist/composer, orchestra director and educator - for over five years now. And while the look and feel of his original website was still an ideal a promotional backdrop for his various musical projects, the desire to transfer edditional control over to the artist, allowing for more immediacy and social media connectivity made a website refresh inevitable. The backend utilises WordPress as a basic CMS, while the core pages are still independent from a theme or template driven setup.

July 18, 2010

Pianist/drummer Gary Husband is back on the web

It was a very particular challenge to get Gary Husband's new website on its way, because for the first time we couldn't replace anything existing. So, time wasn't on our side.

Gary is a stunningly versatile artist. A true multi-instrumentalist who deserves a website that reflects his visions, vast body of work and wide spectrum of fans across genres and continents. Rather than going wild with the design, Gary was very clear that he needed something stylish and simple, with an emphasis on content and usability.

The current version is what we decided to go live with as part of a soft launch, to start communicating with fans and press again. It's a work in progress, which will be further developed in the months running up to Gary's upcoming album release in autumn/winter 2010.

December 18, 2009

Joe Locke's website re-vibed

Joe Locke's website has been one of our key projects ever since its first re-design and nadworks-treatment went live in early 2006.

Now that the possibilities of web development, faster broadband, our own design ambitions and general user behaviour have progressed, it was time to grab a fresh white canvas and construct a brand new, better, more flexible cyperhome for the world's no. 1 vibes player and go live with "Joe Locke 3.0".

It was important to continue with content elements that worked well (never fix what ain't broken) and listen to the huge number of fans who contacted us with great ideas and requests. Joe's new site keeps growing and developing even now after the official launch, so please don't hesitate to stop by and give us your thoughts.

November 08, 2009

Neil Percy's website

Here's one we should have made earlier: Neil Percy, Principal Percussionist at the London Symphony Orchestra and Head of Timpani and Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music (and breath!) is far too high in demand to make do without a web presence.

Neil is what we'd call a musical "Tausendsassa": He is comfortable in so many artistic setups, styles and combinations; plays Classical by trade, but knows his Jazz as well as anybody and is - last but definitely not least - a hell of a teacher.

Neil's website will be showcasing and documenting his various activities on stage, off stage, in front of the camera, and in press and media.

May 12, 2009

Mike Lindup's new website

Sometimes it's good to launch a website while it is still a work in progress. It can keep visitors interested to keep coming back and check for further developments. It can help the designer to get immediate feedback from users along the way. In the case of Mike Lindup - pianist/composer/vocalist and founding member of the legendary pop group Level 42 - it had the additional benefit of being able to announce and promote his upcoming recording and some imminent concert appearances, both as solo artist and with Level 42.

It's needless to say that we are enormously excited about this website project, and we're looking forward to adding more content and interactive elements to mikelindup.com in the next weeks and months, working with Mike and creating a comprehensive online presence for him. Please feel free to subscribe to his newsletter to be kept in the loop about happenings.

August 28, 2008

New dashboard for clients

Like many other creative agencies, we wanted to provide our clients with a fixed place to go in order to check on the progress of their projects, download artwork files and review scoped layouts. Et voilá - here's the Creative Dashboard. It will allow each of our clients to log into their own job bag and and - hopefully - find all about the status quo of live and previous creative work.

The platform is currently shared between Siula Grande Design (for print design) and nadworks cb (for web design and development). Additional features will be added as we go along. As ever, the interweb offers the great opportunity to treat its assets as "work in progress".

And until we have the Siula Grande Design website up and running and updated the nadworks portfolio, clients.nadworks.com is also the best location for us to showcase some of our recent creatives...

August 15, 2008

Making a big deal of MCM

At Lateral Group we've finally gone live with our sector pages - Howitt, Shift Click and Data Lateral - all being part of the big picture called MCM (Marketing Communications Management).

     
Completing the quartet is Dialogue Solutions for Print Management and Multi Channel Marketing. And wrapping it all up will be the web re-launch of the Lateral Group itself. Watch this spot.

February 23, 2008

Just launched! Stylish Villas

This began as a compact idea, a small little side project during one of the busiest times of the year at Lateral Group. Yet, it turned into a full blown labour of passion and enthusiasm, driven by Nick Dixon.

Stylish Villas covers the upper range of holiday property rentals in one of the most beautiful parts of Mallorca's the Pollença area in the northern, more mountainous region of the island. While the villas are being built and styled, the website now takes care of all booking, marketing, online-advertisement and networking.