A clean, editorial-style layout features full-scale photography and a bold and vibrant brand identity
Client
Bright Noise
Services
Project Goals
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Bold brand identity
A bold brand identity that reflects the vibrancy of the images. -
Photography focus
Support display and storage of large, high-quality images. -
Multiple collaborators
Develop a user-friendly CMS that supports contributions from multiple users.
A bold brand identity is balanced by a simple, editorial style layout.
Photography is a prominent feature of the publication and the website features large, full-screen photos.
Articles feature a grid-style gallery and a viewing carousel.
"We wanted a photography focused design with a bold visual style to help showcase exciting live event coverage, and Julie succeeded in spades. Through an iterative process leveraging her kind, considered and candid approach, she worked to create the best possible site for our content. I’d recommend Julie to anyone who values clear conversations, easy expectations management and integrity of the final product both in the beautiful aesthetic and robust back-end architecture."
Bright Noise
Brand identity
Bright Noise is an online editorial-style website devoted to music and arts with a bold and vibrant brand identity.
The dynamic word mark features a slight distortion of shape—a visual representation of the elasticity of sound.
Business cards display the Bright Noise logo across the front and back in a spot gloss finish.
"The site turned out to be clear, with simple navigation that flowed elegantly and with great style. That style can stand well on its own, like with the business cards [Julie] also created, but fades nicely into the background when you start paging through the photos and reviews. Everyone who comes across the site loves it. The interface’s responsiveness allows them to keep digging through the archives to find their favourite artists and events. It’s something the artists we cover are proud to be a part of and share with their audiences."
Bright Noise
The latest posts are displayed in a 2x2 grid on the homepage.
The hover effect on navigation links gives the impression of a stage under the letters.
"On the backend of the site, it’s minimal, transparent, and logical. This allows us to easily escape the pitfalls of popular off-the-shelf web frameworks, where nothing is exactly as you want it and nearly everything requires heavy plugins. It gives us easy access to add content, share the system across many contributors, and tweak structure along the way."
Bright Noise
CMS Design
The Bright Noise website was transferred from WordPress to a custom-designed CMS built with Sanity.io. The CMS is flexible, minimal and easy for contributors to use.
Content types centralize information including contributors, galleries, tags and categories. Custom fields allow contributors to select these items to use in the post.
A custom-designed CMS built with Sanity.io offers a clear and organized editing experience.
Contributors can easily edit posts by selecting custom fields and adding content and images to a customizable text editor.
Photos are added to the Album content type which can later be added individual posts as a gallery.
Once selected as a post gallery, an album can be edited seamlessly from the same screen.
Contributors can edit the images in the gallery and add accessibility features such as alt text and captions.
Contributors can select from previously added tags or create a new one if needed.
Each post contains an option to select the writers or photographers who contributed to the post. All contributor details are automatically populated into the post template.
Users can select pages or categories to link to from the main navigation.
A simple text editor allows users to edit content, implement heading styles and add media as needed.
