Projects / Web design / Education

Ignite
Art University

A prospectus site for an art school, where the course finder has to work for a seventeen-year-old and their parents at the same time.

Client
Ignite Art University
Discipline
Web design / Education
Year
2026

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Ignite Art University homepage
01 / The brief

What the site had to actually do.

University sites serve two readers with opposite needs. The applicant wants to know whether they will belong there. The parent wants outcomes, fees and safety. Most institutions pick one and lose the other.

On top of that, an art school has to look like somewhere art gets made. A conservative template would undercut the entire proposition.

02 / What we did

Four decisions that shaped it.

Course finder Filter by discipline and level Ten degrees across six disciplines, filtered live, with a hover detail card that answers the next question without a page load.
Student work The gallery leads, not the copy Work made this term, hung at angles that straighten on hover. The building is the argument.
Two audiences Studio culture and outcomes, both first-class Testimonials and campus life for the applicant. Graduate outcomes, staff ratios and parent notes for the person paying.
Exchange Erasmus+ given its own section Thirty-eight partner schools, grant figures and the application timeline, because study abroad is often the deciding factor.
03 / The result

What shipped, and why it works.

Sixteen sections including a three-slide hero, a filtered course finder, a student work gallery, a horizontal alumni rail and a full admissions path. Built on a proper token system, with the CSS split into tokens, components and page layers.

What is in the build

Live course filtering by discipline and level

Three-slide hero with keyboard-accessible controls

Token-based CSS architecture across six files

Mega-menu navigation with a mobile panel

04 / Start here

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