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Website Makeover: A Polished New Look for Scott Pease

BY Wonderful Machine 22 July 2015
Intel, Case Studies, Design, Logos & Wordmarks, Web Template Customization, Photo Editing, Web Edit

Scott Pease is a Cleveland-based architectural photographer who we’re proud to now call a Wonderful Machine member photographer. Scott first came to us looking to reevaluate his branding and marketing efforts and decided to start with our very popular Branding & Marketing (BaM!) plan, which does exactly that.

Scott's website before the makeover
Scott’s website before the makeover

Time for a Change

In reviewing Scott’s website and brand as a whole, a few problem areas became apparent. Throughout his brand, Scott was using two different logos, which were inconsistent and confusing, not to mention that neither was particularly memorable or relevant to the type of images he shoots.

Scott's preexisting logos
Scott’s preexisting logos

Second, his website was an older custom site that wasn’t responsive and forced him to crop his images to awkward proportions to fit the site. Photographers everywhere, please note that this is not okay—your photography should define your portfolio (both print and web), not the other way around. Lastly, the number of galleries on Scott’s site made it overwhelming to use and confusing to navigate. With these opportunity areas in mind, we recommended a brand makeover and supplied Scott with a proposed schedule of how we would execute it.

Moving Forward

After digesting our analysis and advice, Scott decided to move forward with several of our consulting services: a Logo Refinement, Web Edit, Web Template Customization, (and later on) Print Edit and Emailer Design. I teamed up with our senior photo editor Sean Stone to get the job done, promptly getting to work on Scott’s logo while Sean tackled the web edit.

Since Scott’s photography has such clean lines and elegant angles, I knew his new logo had to be sophisticated but simple. I presented a few solutions in the first round, but this one immediately jumped out as the winner. After diving into some color exploration and presenting Scott with several possible palettes, he chose charcoal and a vibrant red—a conservative but classic choice.

Scott's new logo & color palette
Scott’s new logo & color palette

With his new logo finalized and the web edit well underway, we moved on to Scott’s website. We decided to move his portfolio from the older custom site to a brand new Squarespace account. We love Squarespace and recommend their templates constantly to photographers because they’re well-designed, responsive (looking great no matter what screen size or device you’re browsing on) and easy to use from both the owner and user perspective.

Wrapping Up

Once the edit was complete, I implemented it on Scott’s new site and we made the switch to take it live. Sean had this to say about his experience working on Scott’s web portfolio edit,

Working with Scott was a fun challenge. His photography is really sophisticated, and he has a diverse body of work. Scott’s original site was well organized. He had categories in place that made sense to me, and represented his work in a clear and concise way. The issue that I saw with the edit was just one of volume. By showing images by project, and showing so many projects, he needed to create layers of navigation that I felt slowed the viewer down, and risked losing potential clients’ attention before they’ve seen the best of what he has to offer. By selecting a broad range of his most compelling, technically strong images, we present Scott in a way more accessible, client-friendly package.

Scott's new website homepage
Scott’s new website homepage

All of us were thrilled with the transformation, especially Scott who shared the following about our work together:

I recently made the decision to revamp my entire website. It had been suggested that I try Wonderful Machine and after talking to the staff at Wonderful Machine I decide to go forward with that decision. I wound up working with Melissa Ginsiorsky, one of the designers at WM. Melissa offered lots of suggestions to get started and throughout the process. She also kept the ball rolling and the entire rebuild of my website did not take long at all. I was very happy with the outcome and would highly recommend Melissa and WM to other photographers who are looking to put together a new web site or rebuild their old one.

To see more of Scott’s work and his brand new website, visit peasephotography.com. If you’re looking for a logo of your own or to build out your brand, feel free to shoot us an email for help with a print or web edit. You can also learn more about all of our services on our consulting page.

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