Rowan Sable
Working with sisters Phillipa and Olivia was great fun from the very start. Phillipa is a wonderful illustrator, and we wanted to collaborate with her to create a site design which reflects the personality and art of Rowan Sable.
The shop is sprinkled with origami, branches, and paintings. We worked out a design framework which would allow us to combine these things into a website interface, and then Phillipa created drawings of the different elements, which we were able to combine into a completed design which is not only attractive, but valid HTML/CSS code!
We wrapped this around the Content Management Framework of MODx, which makes it super simple to maintain content in the various different sections of the site, and even add products to their online store!
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