2024–2026
All art, mascot and logo of mine are designed by my girlfriend, you can read more detail here Ayşegül & the Phoenix Rebirth.
I originally built the site in 2018, before Shopify had any robust API for Javascript web apps. This year (2024), I rebuilt it using Shopify’s new Hydrogen system and Remix web framework, which was a pleasure to work with. The result is a much more performant experience.
On the Collections page, I simply allowed Vlad Savin’s excellent photography to take centre stage.
My favourite part of the site is the contact page. Sometimes forms can be quite boring, so I choose to extend the faux artisinal copy language—as though the website had a speaking part in “The Age of Innocence”—to create a contact page with attitude. The bold typography does the rest.
Not every page stuck to the “hero then cards” formula. That would quickly become habitual, and may lead to losing user attention. So I used alternative graphic layouts on the quieter, information-driven pages.
Visit Kalaurie.