Stuart Croft Foundation

Website for the Stuart Croft Foundation, a charitable body set up make accessible the legacy and archive of artist-filmmaker Stuart Croft, to exhibit his moving-image works, and to provide grants for new moving-image productions, research, publications and exhibitions.

In addition to an archive that features direct access to films direct from the Vimeo-hosted stock, the site has been developed with Wordpress, and incorporates a form-based submission system for the annual Foundation grants, with CV-upload and user-tested interface, and background administration system to sort applications for the three awards.

Date: April 2017 / Client: Stuart Croft Foundation - for Taylor McKenzie / Up design agency / Role: Front-end designer, Wordpress developer / URL: www.stuartcroftfoundation.org /

Graceful slideshow of three full-screen photographs with captions introduces three key ways into the website.

Gallery of Croft archive films, with elegant hover to summary titles, and pop-up to view uncluttered films hosted by Vimeo in the browser. Admin have the ability to add to and maintain the archive in the Wordpress dashboard.