Höyrygalleria

Hoyrygalleria ("Steam Gallery") is the new soon to be opened gallery, which is owned by Emalipuu / Enamelwood owners Ulla Huttunen and Arto Salminen. The gallery will open to the harbour of Korpilahti, Jyväskylä (Finland), in the beginning of June, 2011. The name of the gallery comes from the old steam saw building where the gallery now takes place.

The gallery website is very simple and is based on the logo graphics designed for Hoyrygalleria by Tiina Leino. As any CMS wouldn't have worked and Ulla would like to update the new herself, I used very basic site plan and then implemented some rss feed includes from Höyrygalleria's blog, so that the news always show on the first page. There is also Admarket's flickrSLiDR used in the front page: it makes the photo gallery automaticly of the images uploaded to Flickr.

This is propably only the temporary page - as the gallery starts running and all the smaller things are cleared, we'll propably rock the site - totally!

www.hoyrygalleria.fi

Emalipuu - Enamel Wood

I can't really remember when did we first start to plan the website project with Ulla and Arto (a couple who owns Emalipuu), but it was years ago. About five or six I guess? But it was a good thing that we could stew the project long enough, because now when it's done, I can proudly say that this was the most interesting and intriquing project in this year (I bet there are none web commissions like this coming, at least this year). I have visited Ulla and Arto in their home in the countryside several times with Tiina Leino who has made the printed material (calling cards, brochures, packages...) We've enjoyed coffee and talk a lot of other stuff too.

This project has been some kind of therapy for me, even though these kind of forever-lasting projects can be a pain in the ***. This wasn't. That doesn't mean that I wasn't relieved when the site was finally published.

I usually don't write any content to my commission websites. Normally I may advise with the headlines and content in general but I won't write the stories and do the copy writer's job at all. This time I took the copy writer's job as well as Ulla and Arto gave me free hands to write in my way. The texts came out a bit sentimental but overall good.

Only in Finnish: www.emalipuu.fi