The Design Museum
Greeting Card — Linear Illustration
Challenge
The Design Museum commissioned a greeting card that would capture the essence of their iconic building in a way that felt both subtle and powerful — a piece that could work as both merchandise and a design object in its own right.
Solution
I created a linear illustration of a detail of The Design Museum's building, capturing its architectural character with precision and restraint. The illustration was gold foiled onto an uncoated pale grey paper stock — a considered material choice that reinforced the museum's design-led identity and elevated the card from functional to collectible.
The Webflow build uses a fully structured CMS with custom fields for material palette, building programme, structural engineer, and planning authority. Project filtering runs via Finsweet CMS Filter — no custom code, fully manageable by the team.
"The brief was clear from the start: make us look like who we actually are — not who we used to be."
— Creative Director, Haptic Architects
Project index page — desktop, list view with CMS filter system
Results
Numbers that
matter to a director
Within three months of launch, the practice received two new enquiries directly attributable to the website — both from contacts who found the studio through search. Organic traffic increased significantly and the bounce rate dropped from 74% to 41%.
+210%
Organic search traffic in 3 months post-launch
41%
Bounce rate — down from 74% on previous site
×2
New enquiries direct from website in first quarter
The internal impact was equally significant. The practice now publishes projects independently. The CMS training session took 40 minutes. Three months in, seven projects had been added without any involvement from me.
Haptic Architects — Project detail page, Ancoats residential scheme
Gallery
Mobile view — project index with filter interaction
About page and team section — desktop
"Alice understood the practice before she understood the brief. The result is a website that actually represents how we think — not just what we've built."
Sarah Mathews
Director, Haptic Architects
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