The HIVE Café
Date: January to April, 2011
Client: Concordia Student Union
Discipline: Web Design, Front-End Development
Team: Natalie Pan, Christina Garofalo, Elliot Saray
URL: The HIVE Café
In the spring of 2011, I and my fellow students worked with the Concordia University to design the HIVE Café: a new, sustainability-focused campus establishment. My team was responsible for web presence & information architecture for the client.
The café, in contrast to its competitors (including the corporate-outsourced school cafeteria), would promote sustainable practices, and provide higher-quality food.
The concept put forth, “imprintology”, explores the past and future of artefacts and experiences we create in a café. We articulated this concept by drawing on local history and the Montréal vernacular, working these motifs into the heart of the design.
We also held the mobile experience to be integral to the success of the café; the site was designed using then-uncommon techniques of Responsive Design, allowing it to serve the ideal experience to smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.
The café, in contrast to its competitors (including the corporate-outsourced school cafeteria), would promote sustainable practices, and provide higher-quality food.
The concept put forth, “imprintology”, explores the past and future of artefacts and experiences we create in a café. We articulated this concept by drawing on local history and the Montréal vernacular, working these motifs into the heart of the design.
We also held the mobile experience to be integral to the success of the café; the site was designed using then-uncommon techniques of Responsive Design, allowing it to serve the ideal experience to smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.
Unfortunately, though our work was completed in April of 2011,
recent logistical issues have put the HIVE Café's launch on hold indefinitely.
recent logistical issues have put the HIVE Café's launch on hold indefinitely.
