Design has always been central to what we are about, and that extends from our products all the way to good website design. And, great websites are a valuable thing. This winter, we worked hard on a complete rebrand and redesign with some very talented friends and contributors in order to bring the new Grovemade.com to life. We are very happy with our new site in terms of visual appeal, user experience, and how it tells our story. Luckily, we’re not alone; there’s been public praise on blogs that feature the best website designs, and customers have been telling us good things.
“When the collaboration is humming along well, you can get to a magical place no one can get to alone. The best creatives can listen to our feedback and work together with us to help us fulfill our vision. This experience has truly been a victory of team over individual.” - Co-founder Ken Tomita
We were lucky enough to be able to assemble a team with designer and art director Peter Baston, photographer Chris Mueller, our in-house designer and photographer Max Brown, our in-house writer Mary Yajko, copywriting consultant Thomas McCracken, and our developer extraordinaire Yuji Tomita. Peter’s eye for style and his design guidelines are invaluable to us. Chris’s stunning photography helps us keep a gorgeous record of our workshop culture and our team. Max’s clean product photography and content design is the sustenance of our rebrand. Keen web copy does our story justice. And, Yuji makes it all possible with his custom backend web programming that keeps Grovemade.com not only handsome but also hard working.
Here are some links to website design blogs that have mentioned our site as an example of great website design:
Average Score: 7.61
Quote from Site: “Very beautiful and clean website. I love the use of the pictures, spaces and typo. Fast and clean, easy to understand the navigation and very well coded.”
Description: Honors the talent of the best web designers and developers and offers inspiration for great website design.
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Quote from Site: Grovemade tagged as “Ecommerce, Minimalist”
Description: Web design inspiration blog.
Average Score: 8.50
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Description: “Webdesign, inspiration, graphic design, showcase... The best webdesign by French!”
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Description: “Recognizes the best of web design from around the world[...]The Best Designs currently receives more than 1 million page views each month from designers, agencies, web professionals, business owners and design enthusiasts who visit to see the new websites that are added each day.”
Don’t forget to check out the personal websites of our design and development team to read more about their talents: art director Peter Baston, photographer Chris Mueller, designer and photographer Max Brown, and developer Yuji Tomita. It was a wonderful experience to work together with this team of creative minds and see our new website and branding come to life.
Written by Mary Yajko. She is a copywriter and member of Team Grove originally from upstate New York. She enjoys opened minds, uncontrollable fits of laughter, and large amounts of french fries with ketchup.
