2021 (ongoing) · Brooklyn, NY
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Lighting Workshop
Overview
The Challenge
Services
- Web Design Partnership
- Web Development
- CMS Architecture
- Responsive Design & UX
- Ongoing Support
- Azure Hosting
- Design by Team
- Design direction and UX were provided by Team; we partnered with them to bring the vision into a working, client-managed product.
- Client-Owned Content
- Prismic covers every surface of the site. Lighting Workshop publishes projects, case studies, press, team changes, and job openings without contacting either partner.
- Ongoing Since 2021
- We work directly with the studio on support and new features, with hosting and deployment on Azure.
Filterable Portfolio
160+ projects, findable three different ways.
The portfolio is the center of the site, and it has to answer very different questions: a hospitality developer wants hotels, a Brooklyn architect wants local work, and a returning visitor just wants Rockefeller Center. We built browsing that combines category filters (workplace, hospitality, retail, residential, culture and education, exterior, building repositioning), location, and free-text search, resolving instantly across the full archive without a page reload.
Case Studies
Long-form pages that let the photography lead.
Selected projects get a full narrative treatment: architect, category, location, photographer, and awards presented as structured metadata, followed by alternating passages of writing and full-bleed imagery that walk through the lighting decisions room by room. The templates are built for high-resolution photography on mobile connections, with responsive sources and lazy loading so a page dense with images still opens quickly.
Press Archive
A press feed the studio updates the day coverage lands.
Lighting Workshop is covered regularly by Architectural Record, Interior Design, Dezeen, WWD, Fast Company, and The New York Times. The press archive stores each item with its publication, date, and outbound link, and optionally ties it back to the project it covers, so a case study page can surface its own coverage and a press item can send readers into the portfolio.
Prismic Content Model
Every surface belongs to the client, not to us.
We modeled the site in Prismic around the way the studio actually works: projects, case studies, press items, team members, capabilities, and open roles are each their own document type with the relationships already wired. Adding a project to the portfolio, publishing a case study, posting a new opening, or updating the team roster are all editorial actions. Nothing routine requires a developer.
Practice & Careers
The studio, the capabilities, and the hiring pipeline.
Beyond the work, the site carries the practice itself: a roster of designers with credentials, a detailed capabilities list covering everything from photometric analysis to final aiming of lights, a sustainability section on LEED and WELL credits, and a careers section with live openings. Contact and newsletter forms route inquiries to the studio without a third-party form service in the middle.
Ongoing Partnership
Five years of support, not a launch and a handoff.
Since the 2021 launch we have worked directly with Lighting Workshop rather than through an intermediary. New features arrive as the practice grows: additional portfolio filters, template refinements, performance work, and content model changes as the studio finds new ways it wants to present the work. Hosting, deployment, and maintenance run on Azure and stay our responsibility.
Stack
A Node.js stack chosen in 2021 for editorial flexibility, image performance, and a long service life, still in active development today.
- Azure hosting
- Handlebars templating
- Node.js
- Prismic CMS
- Sass compiled to CSS
- Vanilla JavaScript
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