Studio | SKETCHWORKS Design Arts Development Collaborative

Website designed by studio | SKETCHWORKS.

The Studio | SKETCHWORKS design arts development collaborative website is an expansive website that presents a large amount of information about the company and its projects. Through an intricate navigation of web pages and galleries, a visitor to this free Flash website will immediately get a strong impression of the varied projects, in several diverse aspects of design.

The designers used the free website builder to produce an landing page through which you can garner an instant first impression by navigating through a thumbnail gallery of images accompanied by short descriptions, or by electing to access additional information on other selected projects.

The design colour palette and style of the website are clearly pronounced on this home page and are carried throughout the balance of the website. The color palette employs variations of gray, highlighted by orange to emphasize certain elements. It is apparent that this website is driven by images and dynamic navigation menus that guide you through the different galleries, some of which lead onto a new page, building ease of use into the exploration process.

Comprehensive information and usability conveyed through a dynamic and visual web design make this website a great marketing tool for the studio | SKETCHWORKS enterprise.

General Information
Launched on January 1, 2009, they are a combined design | arts | development collaborative who only pursue projects which involve the making of contemporary places | spaces | things. They make their home in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, Harrisonburg, VA. The following is what they spend their day doing.

Design Place
Physical places… their interest is in designing relevant and imaginative contemporary homes, mixed-use, and small commercial projects within urban|village|town settings, including adaptive reuse | additions | new projects.

Design Space
Digital spaces… they didn’t set out to provide graphic plus web design services, rather, it came to them because of the recognition they garnered from their own website! As with all of their other projects, careful attention to function, needs and aesthetics are crucial to their success.

Design Things
Object design… a natural extension to their mission, they also design furniture, casework, sculpture, objects.

Real estate Development
The boundaries between design studio plus real estate development are blurred in order to attain one simple goal – to make better community. They believe good design can heal, can help rebuild a forgotten neighborhood, can improve the built environment. They want to be a catalyst.

Arts Installation
Creativity is their core. However, to continually draw from that well, they need additional outlets to take risks, innovate, explore and question. This process often comes through their pursuits of temporary art installations, where they explore the mediums of installation, and public or two-dimensional art.

Approach
All of their projects are rooted in the rigors of Modernism. However, particularities of place, history, culture, environmental stewardship and economics don’t suffer at its expense. Rather, they are the perfect compliment. Whether a client-driven, self initiated, or development-led project, their passion is to provide imaginitative places | spaces | things to adventurous users who are uninspired by the ‘usual’ and seek that which transcend the ordinary.