Allchorn Design

The Collective are a design and branding agency in Johannesburg, South Africa. I’ve worked with the principal designer there, Leigh Dyson on a couple of projects in the past, and we share a few clients.

They do some truly amazing work in the print field and have an impressive client list.

The design of their site was their creation and with a little bit of guidance to make it web-ready it came out pretty neatly. Tailor made to be viewed no lower than 1024×768, it fits nicely in most screen resolutions.

The tabbed navigation is even semantically coded (plain text in a bulleted list) through some nifty CSS tricks. The site is powered entirely through Wordpress with XML files to edit all flash content.

The portfolio items feature a dynamic crumb-trail navigation and pagination on all the sections. The identities section pulls a custom field thumbnail icon onto the page for each item and links it to it’s respective post.

The site is now done with phase one, and soon we embark on the FTP section which will feature a revolutionary file transfer interface. Both uploads and downloads.

A great client, and the site is already showing promise.