The American Council of Learned Societies needed to upgrade their website to convey its active role in the advancement of humanistic studies and its position as a leader among peer institutions. As part of ACLS’ migration to a database-driven and content-managed site, CGP built an intuitive and friendly user interface.
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The American Council of Learned Societies needed to upgrade their website to convey its active role in the advancement of humanistic studies and its position as a leader among peer institutions. As part of ACLS’ migration to a database-driven and content-managed site, CGP built an intuitive and friendly user interface.
From a site of less than a hundred pages, we built a global navigation system that contains thousands of pages with valuable and easily navigable information, such as profiles of ACLS fellows and grantees, informative member society profiles, calendar of societies’ meetings and searchable directories of ACLS and Fellows’ publications. Additionally, we created extranets for Fellows and Administrative Officers to facilitate member communications and submission of up-to-date information for the ACLS database.
Our visual solution incorporated the newly branded logo, an extended color palette in order to not rely solely on the mark, and an expanded visual vocabulary focusing around a custom-photographed series of emotive and abstracted images of an open book. Additionally, we assembled a library of images — from old manuscripts to archeological findings, textiles, stained glass and photography — dispersed throughout the site to better convey the richness of the humanities and its various manifestations.
