The Depot Website Revamp
Building a new home for a new legacy.
The Depot website needed an overhaul. The Depot was in the process of repositioning itself from “the train museum” to a community cultural center. It was ready for the website to reflect that. They worked with us to create a site that accurately captured its new brand and felt interactive and fun.
This project went off the tracks in a good way.
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The Depot was the place to find local history, arts, and culture. Several groups, including the Minnesota Ballet, Duluth Playhouse, and Duluth Art Institute, had found a home within its walls.
The new website needed to highlight all the Duluth Depot stands for and its new brand work by another local designer. With only two months until a December 1st deadline, our designers and developers went to work.
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Taking the brand guidelines, we interwove the look and feel into every page. Train track graphics danced across the page, giving the site a playful atmosphere and paying homage to its history as a train station. Despite being the home for many organizations and information, The Depot website feels simple and easy to navigate. A calendar was implemented to give users an overall look at upcoming events. Every part of the website is built to be easily managed by internal team members.
The results were a bold new site that captured the exciting new chapter of The Depot.
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