The website design for Marlon Blackwell, a Northwest Arkansas-based architect and friend, needed to somehow speak about Marlon's work in a unique voice that matched his designs. To accomplish this, we opted to use the work itself as a foundation for the design.

Taking his then-favorite project, a garage converted into a honey collection and storage space, we used the idea of projects-as-bees for the primary navigation, and categories-as-cells for the organization. All project links hover within cells found on the opening image, and lead to a new two-square design on click.

Each project page outlines the main ideas behind that design, and encourages visitors to explore all photos using a magnification lens which enlarges portions of the image as the cursor moves across.

The Marlon Blackwell website received two website design awards following its launch, including the 2003 Entablature Architecture Website Honor Award, and the American Design Awards Gold Medal.