Web Design
2025
Field Notes Foundation
Field Notes Archive
Overview / The creative premise
Field Notes Archive treats digital publishing as a designed system rather than a stack of templates. We led information architecture, art direction, interaction design, responsive prototyping, and front-end implementation.
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Problem
Years of exhibitions, essays, recordings, and collection records lived across disconnected tools. Visitors could not understand relationships between programmes, and editors avoided publishing because every page required technical support.
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Research
We analysed search behaviour, content types, accessibility needs, and editorial workflows. Card sorting with visitors and curators revealed that themes, people, places, and time needed to work together as equal paths through the archive.
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Solution
We built an adaptive editorial grid, expressive article templates, a connected taxonomy, powerful search, and reusable CMS modules that preserve design quality while giving editors genuine flexibility.
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Challenges
The platform had to serve visual browsing, deep research, multilingual content, and older media formats without becoming slow or visually chaotic. Performance and accessibility were treated as design materials from the start.
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Feature 01
Connected records let visitors move naturally between an exhibition, artist, essay, location, and related archive material without returning to a rigid index.
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Feature 02
Responsive story modules support galleries, film, audio, footnotes, pull quotes, timelines, and data while maintaining a consistent editorial rhythm.
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Feature 03
A documented CMS and component library gives editors safe creative range, reducing production time while protecting typography, spacing, and accessibility.
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Feature 04
A connected taxonomy links exhibitions, artists, essays, locations, collection records, and related media so visitors can follow ideas across the archive without returning to a rigid index.
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Feature 05
Multimedia story modules support image galleries, film, audio, timelines, data, captions, footnotes, and pull quotes while maintaining a readable rhythm from desktop research sessions to mobile visits.
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Feature 06
The publishing toolkit gives editors reusable blocks, multilingual fields, accessibility checks, responsive previews, and safe creative controls, reducing technical support without reducing editorial range.
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Prototype
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Key Takeaways
A strong content platform makes complexity feel navigable without flattening it. Field Notes gained a public archive that is expressive, accessible, and sustainable to operate.
