Peascod

Peascod is a creative studio and we’ve worked together since Spring 2021. During that time Emma and Tobias’ practice has evolved in a number of ways, and most recently we made a new website.

The studio was rebranding to more explicitly bring their work together: Emma’s verre églomisé and Tobias’ sculpting. This was an organic and evolving process that coincided with a wider tuning of how they wanted their business to be and appear.

Drawing on nature, traditional skills and rich human folklore, the couple have defined a contemporary British rococo style. Risa at Mentsen devised a visual identity which centred around the Epicene collection from Klim and a confident, dramatic colour palette.

Emma had used Squarespace for a number of years to manage separate websites for their semi-separate practices. With the rebrand, she had begun to build a new site with a template but found frustration in honing it. At this point we agreed the benefits of a bespoke website outweighed the costs.

We had a strong concept in mind but Dave Smyth was invaluable by designing pages and components in Figma that we were able to discuss as a group. This then lead to a couple of months of steady iteration in development where we made firm decisions ‘in the browser’ with real content and real code.

The site is built with my preferred tech stack:

~ Statamic: Content management system

~ Tailwind: CSS framework

~ Alpine: javascript front-end framework

During the course of creating a site, choices are made with what fields are required and useful. Most websites are combinations of text and images, and decisions are made to balance: controls for authors, design constraints, and simplicity. When done well, consistency can coincide with flexibility.

By way of example, here we see some of the controls in the CMS, and the front-end result for a two photo ‘block” with captions.

The best way to view the site is through visiting it, but here are some snapshots.