Kulör · digital publishing · London web design & development consultancy

siteInspire

siteInspire is a showcase of the very best web and interaction design today, started by Kulör primarily as a tool to keep track of web design trends and inspirational sites.

Since its launch in March 2009, the website has gone on to become one of the most respected and popular showcases, seeing up to 10,000 daily unique visitors and has since been further developed to include a Directory of the individuals and agencies behind the featured sites.

Creative Journal

Creative Journal is a blog featuring creative inspiration and new work, spanning a diverse array of disciplines including graphic design, architecture, photography, and art. Designed, developed, and curated by Kulör.

Fiftytwo

Recently launched in beta, Fiftytwo is a private network for creative professions, where you or your business can connect to your closest professional contacts, and share new work, work in progress, your latest news and opinions, opportunities and questions.

The site was designed, developed, and is maintained by Kulör.

Creative Everyone

Creative Everyone is a joint-venture between Kulör and Glasgow-based, Mister, and is a single, go-to guide to all the most interesting creative-oriented events guide curated and edited by interested members from the creative community.

Dazed Digital

Fashion, art and culture magazine Dazed & Confused approached us to re-design their website, DazedDigital.com.

Collaborating with Mister, we were responsible for the design of the site and front-end development.

Futurising

Futurising was a 2 day creative industries festival organised by the LCC, that invited young graduates from an array of creative courses to explore the opportunities available to them within industry.

They approached YCN to develop the branding for the festival, which was to be translated to the website that sat as the central repository of event information, including event details, workshops, features, and sponsor information.

Working with designers at YCN, Kulör was responsible for the information architecture and development of the website, which is powered by ExpressionEngine.

The website is no longer online, but a preview can be seen here.

YCN

YCN is a unique creative agency that represents the finest illustration and moving-image design talent; and produces design, content, campaigns and other communication in all media for varied clients.

The website was developed on the ExpressionEngine platform, and comprises of 4 separate, but tightly integrated, websites to handle each of the different aspects of the organisation: the agency, the shop and library, Ideas Illustrated, and the annual awards programme.

design/array

A new sister site to siteInspire, design/array exists to editorially showcase the individuals and agencies behind some of the best websites today.

The Beak Street Bugle

The Beak Street Bugle is a bi-monthly online publication by the Advertising Producers Association specifically tailored to deliver the latest opinions and industry news to their members. We were approached to design and develop the website, allowing editorial to be groups and published as individual issues.

Streeters

Working in conjunction with YCN, we architected and developed a new website for London and New York-based fashion agency Streeters, built on a completely bespoke portfolio management system (please see next site).

Portfolio CMS

A bespoke portfolio management tool designed and developed for Streeters, used as a day-to-day application to manage many the agency's many thousands of visual assets and artist portfolios, while driving the front-end for Streeters.com.

Boisdale

Boisdale is a group of high-end, Scottish-themed London-entertainment venues with a particular focus on premium cigars and whiskeys. They approached us to redesign and develop the website to showcase each location, with their own individual events calendars, venues, menus and news.

The Contemporary London

The development of a new online contemporary art gallery, designed by Gui Seiz.

Re-format

A site developed for architecture and graphic design practice, Re-Format, built on a custom-developed Django CMS.

Art & Sole

Intercity Design asked us to develop the website to accompany the popular sneaker design book, Art & Sole.

40 Bruton Street

London design agency dn&co approached us to design and develop a new website to complement a printed brochure they designed for a new property development in Mayfair.

The website was designed with the central print design concept in mind, whose images physically wrap from page to page.

Inventory Studio

London-based design studio Inventory Studio approached us to develop their new website which shows off their incredible amount of work in an unusual and interesting way.

The site was built using a combination of HTML/CSS and jQuery, and built using the ExpressionEngine CMS.

Aedas R&D

Global architecture practice Aedas approached us to design and develop a new website specifically for their Research and Development department to show the breadth of their projects and methdologies.

We helped architect, design, and develop the site, which was custom developed to handle its very specific requirements.

Alice by Temperley

We collaborated with London-based design studio, Nation to develop a website for a new fashion label from Temperley London.

The site features a rich combination of Flash and HTML/CSS, all built upon the ExpressionEngine platform to provide a quirky, immersive user experience.

We also helped to develop the website's shop, integrating with a third party e-commerce provider.

Thomas Matthews

London-based communication design agency, thomas.matthews approached YCN to develop their new website that was to be launched in conjunction with their sustainable re-branding exercise in early 2010 (more of which can be read about on their blog).

Designed by thomas.matthews, we developed the HTML, CSS and jQuery, and integrated it with ExpressionEngine.