Web design portfolio · Melville Creative Strategy

Websites with a job to do.

Good-looking is a start. Here’s the work that comes after that: a shop that can handle a real catalogue, a restaurant that’s easier to book and a small brand that finally has a place of its own.

01 · Featured case study

Delfi Collective’s Shopify storefront and fashion collection grid

Fashion e-commerce · Squarespace to Shopify

Delfi Collective

A new Shopify home for an established fashion label, built to handle a complex catalogue while keeping the clothes front and centre.

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Selected projects

Different businesses. Different jobs.

A closer look at what each client needed the site to do, and what I built to help get it there.

Lit Resistance homepage with a rural mailbox and the line Censorship ends at your mailbox

Subscriptions · Squarespace

Lit Resistance

A banned books club needed a shop, a reading room and a point of view. I built a subscription storefront with space for the conversations around the books.

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Fridge of Wonders homepage with pink backgrounds, colourful food and a portrait of the maker

Artisan food · Squarespace

Fridge of Wonders

The jars already had personality. I gave the Pender Island food brand a colourful online home, with room for the products, where to find them and the story behind them.

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The State House restaurant homepage with green accents and photography

Hospitality · Squarespace

The State House

A warmer digital home for a downtown Columbus restaurant. The redesign gives guests clear routes to reservations, private dining and the story behind the place.

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Austin T. Miller Art and Antiques website, featuring a carved eagle

Catalogue · WordPress to Squarespace

US Folk Art

A digital restoration for an Americana dealer. I brought the collection across from an ageing WordPress site and gave the objects more room to speak for themselves.

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Avenue West Appraisals website showing the new logo over a mountain landscape

Professional services · Squarespace

Avenue West Appraisals

A new visual identity and a compact, easy-to-use website for a real estate appraiser. The job was to earn trust quickly and make it simple to get in touch.

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Cultivating Conversations coaching website with warm photography and green accents

Brand & web design

Cultivating Conversations

A new coaching practice needed an identity of its own. I worked on the positioning, visual identity and website so the experience felt like the person clients would meet.

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From the archive

More web work.

Different industries, different briefs and a few more ways to put a website to work.

  • Paragon Realty

    A WordPress redesign and refreshed visual identity.

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  • Sourced Thought

    A retro-tech look for a content and community consultancy.

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  • Level Brothers

    Branding and a web presence for a project management business.

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  • Canuck Storage

    An early website and identity for a storage facility in Ontario.

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  • Vinpatico Wines

    A brand and website for a BC wine industry business.

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Your turn

What should your site be doing better?

Bring a link, a rough idea or the thing that keeps tripping you up. We’ll talk through where to start.