Zissou is a truly talented photographer with a serious eye for design, and his custom-built website shows it. The back end gives him fine control over image display, sorting and sizing, as well as showing and hiding sections for clients and casual visitors.
Monk Oil is a protective ‘skin potion’ made in Brooklyn, New York. Their site is a single-page, hand-coded with no CMS or templates. Clean, simple, and equally at home on a smartphone, laptop or monitor… as it should be!
CL Sterling are a boutique lighting manufacturer with offices in New York, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. The website is fully custom-designed and serves as a product catalog to designers and their clients, with a shallow login for viewing technical data and downloading tear-sheets.
Located in Seminyak, Bali, Jemme is a fusion of fine dining and jewelry store, and their website serves the dual purpose of online catalog and at-your-fingertips booking engine. Smartly designed by Amber Johnsey and Lisa Tan, the Jemme website has an extensively customized back end to facilitate the easy posting and rearranging of content.
Interior designer Peter Carlson’s portfolio site and blog are designed to showcase his completed and ongoing projects, respectively. The front page is a gallery of key images, each linking to a full project gallery. The touch-capable image sliders are equally at home on mobile phones and big desktop monitors.
Showcasing a brilliant logo and packaging design by Zissou, the Ned site is a fully capable online store the for discerning beard wearer (there’s also a rockin’ beards blog… if you’re into that sort of thing).
Timo Ellis is a multi-instrumentalist and producer with a truly impressive list of projects and credits to his name. Timo’s site is a big collage of record covers and videos, each playable on-site through a custom-built media player that parses sources from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, BandCamp, and more.
Legendary Fleet Street photographer Clive Limpkin’s website is an online repository for his most famous works. His WordPress theme is built from scratch, with an extensively-customized admin area for the purpose of organizing and dating thousands of images.