Illustrators.co
A curated marketplace for contemporary illustration.
1 September 2012
Background
Illustrators.co was a curated multi-vendor marketplace for illustrators to promote and sell their artwork.
With a similar model to Etsy, sellers were responsible for managing and dispatching orders, with the site taking a small fee from each sale. Launched in 2012, it was joint project between and Oliver Jelf and myself.
↑ Illustrators.co homepage.
We featured over 30 artists, both up-and-coming and well established, including Tom Gauld, Tony Meeuwissen, Martin Grover, Laura Hughes and Marcus Walters.
While Illustrators.co had to close in 2018 due to work and family pressures, it was an enormously fun project: it kicked off a career in user experience and web development, I met loads of interesting people and had the chance to stage an exhibition in a major national gallery.
↑ Customisable business cards.
Technical notes
I built the site with Drupal 7, Ubercart Marketplace and Stripe. This was the first project I'd built of this scale and complexity - a head-first dive into Drupal, front-end development, SEO and e-commerce.
↑ Early wireframes showing page hierarchy and content blocks.
↑ Selection of key pages throughout the site.
The site itself is no longer online, but a static archive can be viewed here »