After a few weeks of planning, tweaking, and general debugging, we’re finally pleased to announce that the new o,u is up and running. It’s been an interesting process, one that began with an interest in StaceyApp, an interesting CMS that throws the SQL out the window in favor of a folder hierarchy, and a simple drag and drop content from desktop to server. It’s implementations of Markdown as it’s markup-of-choice was also appealing. The best part of Stacey—for us, anyway—has been the ability to simply and effectively implement a few flourishes, and not to have to worry about it functioning within a larger behemoth CMS. There’s the new Featured Projects drawer, which also houses all of the base text about what we do. We’re planning on making this more editorial soon. We also implemented Isotope for project sorting, but not in a hit you over the head way. You can now sort projects by name and size, but we’re hoping to add ways of look at what we do soon. The biggest organizational sorting came with the re-structuring of the base categories for an architectural or design practice—installations, residential, commercial, urban—which we’ve never felt we fall into. The key came in the emergence of the Cities/Cultures/Constructs trope, which allows us to showcase all that we do in a way that allows projects to be much looser in their categorization. And just because we could, we added a sortable Oeuvre Complete list, as over the five years of our practice, we’ve done many things that, for one reason or another, didn’t make the cut—some will be added soon, some will remain unseen.

After a few weeks of planning, tweaking, and general debugging, we’re finally pleased to announce that the new o,u is up and running. It’s been an interesting process, one that began with an interest in StaceyApp, an interesting CMS that throws the SQL out the window in favor of a folder hierarchy, and a simple drag and drop content from desktop to server. It’s implementations of Markdown as it’s markup-of-choice was also appealing. The best part of Stacey—for us, anyway—has been the ability to simply and effectively implement a few flourishes, and not to have to worry about it functioning within a larger behemoth CMS.

There’s the new Featured Projects drawer, which also houses all of the base text about what we do. We’re planning on making this more editorial soon. We also implemented Isotope for project sorting, but not in a hit you over the head way. You can now sort projects by name and size, but we’re hoping to add ways of look at what we do soon.

The biggest organizational sorting came with the re-structuring of the base categories for an architectural or design practice—installations, residential, commercial, urban—which we’ve never felt we fall into. The key came in the emergence of the Cities/Cultures/Constructs trope, which allows us to showcase all that we do in a way that allows projects to be much looser in their categorization. And just because we could, we added a sortable Oeuvre Complete list, as over the five years of our practice, we’ve done many things that, for one reason or another, didn’t make the cut—some will be added soon, some will remain unseen.