Boutique Gin Distillery
Chemist Spirits approached us to help them develop a beautiful custom product showcase website for their fine craft liquor distillery in Asheville, NC.
One of the most pervasive myths we hear among the web design community about our preferred platform is that Squarespace websites aren’t customizable.
Our answer: “Oh yeah? Check this out.” The Chemist Spirits website is a fine piece of evidence that Squarespace packs plenty of design features, especially for developers experienced in CSS customizations.
Chemist Spirits owner James Donaldson came to us with a fun challenge for the growing distillery’s website re-vamp: to translate a static website design mockup created in Photoshop into a fully interactive website that would maintain most of Squarespace’s user-friendly features. An impressively talented graphic artist himself, James had heard that Squarespace templates are only partially customizable, and he was willing to compromise on some details if necessary in order to create a website that staff could maintain and update without need of special web development skills.
We’re pleased to note that the project required no such compromise. LightPress was able to develop custom code to harness each of the Brine template’s image block, gallery, and collection page styles to deliver exactly what the Chemist team had envisioned. The website became an excellent platform to showcase their products, along with all the refinement of their gorgeous vintage hand-drawn botanical brand assets.
If you ever find yourself thirsty for something other than beer in Beer City, you really owe yourself a trip to the Chemist Spirits downtown Asheville location, over in the historic South Slope neighborhood. Their delicious hand-crafted botanical gin is extra refreshing after a jaunt around the River Arts District.
Since its initial launch, the Chemist staff has continued to update the website’s graphics, but the original vintage flavor of the design remains.
If you need a website that can grow with your business, feel free to reach out for a consultation.