Squarespace & WordPress Website Design
Shari Z Art & Design helps artists, nonprofits, and small businesses establish their online presence with user-friendly and visually compelling Squarespace and WordPress websites. With over twenty years of experience in graphic design and art direction, Shari blends professionalism and creativity to deliver clean yet surprising design solutions that resonate with audiences.
As a print designer, Shari enhances digital branding through cohesive visual storytelling. She creates striking graphics that integrate seamlessly with a client's website, ensuring harmony between print and digital elements. By translating brand identity into compelling visuals, Shari establishes a strong online presence that elevates aesthetic appeal and reinforces brand recognition. Her attention to detail ensures that typography and imagery align with the overall brand strategy, creating an immersive visitor experience.
George Family Foundation
When the George Family Foundation requested a redesign of their website using the Squarespace platform, a few of their must-haves were an easy user interface, an updated brand look and features that could be easily updated internally.
Pages were designed with custom illustration and animations by Egle Plytnikaite to highlight key messaging and consistently reinforce the organization’s mission and guiding philosophy as a whole and behind each of seven grant focus areas. Shari Z Art & Design worked with the George Family Foundation team in a highly collaborative process that resulted in a visually beautiful, responsive and interactive site that provides multiple ways for users to access the information they need to apply for grants.
Buffalo Art Guild
The Buffalo Art Guild sought to enhance its online presence to increase public visibility and community outreach. Our design services started with the development of a comprehensive website, www.buffaloartguild.org, which prominently features the Guild’s mission, membership details, event calendar, and newsletter. The site is regularly updated with monthly content and includes email campaigns to engage subscribers.
Additionally, Shari Z undertook a complete redesign of the Guild’s brand logo, capturing the diversity of art forms while paying homage to the iconic buffalo sculptures that are a hallmark of the community.
Dakota Sporting Specialties
The Dakota Sporting Specialties site was designed and created in WordPress, featuring the product launch of this newly branded company’s firearm safety product, Action-Chek, and highlighting the company’s mission to promote firearm safety training.
Hello Cookie
In collaboration with founder Pat Wright, the Hello Cookie site was created to deliver cookies and connections. Pat provides the brand vision, imagery, photos and content, and relies on Shari Z Art & Design to set up, style and regularly update the site, as well as provide light photo retouching, design feedback and suggestions, and Squarespace consulting.
Education for a Bright Future-Tanzania
Website design and launch for a nonprofit organization supporting the Kikatiti Secondary School in Tanzania. Primary goals of the site were to provide a modern and professional web presence , introduce the organization’s mission and background story, visualize the area served with photos, video and maps, communicate immediate needs, provide an introduction to the board of directors, accept donations , and build an email subscription list. Shari Z Art & Design created the site design, working with the client’s provided content and imagery and partnering with a content editor.
Paula Blanz Fine Art
This online portfolio serves as a digital showcase for Paula’s first major body of work. It has been designed to establish her presence both online and in art galleries. As Paula evolves as an artist, this site will grow and adapt to include new pieces, exhibitions, and projects.