At the forefront of heritage management, Curio Projects stands out through their holistic approach, blending innovative interpretation, storytelling, and placemaking to preserve and celebrate history. In our collaboration, Evolut played a pivotal role in translating Curio Projects’ profound expertise and unique methodologies into a digital format that does justice to their distinguished brand. Together, we crafted a website that not only showcases their comprehensive services and impactful projects but also enhances their online presence, allowing them to connect with clients and communities in meaningful new ways.
Objective
Curio Projects deals with projects ranging from the redevelopment of iconic cultural heritage precincts to the reinterpretation of forgotten heritage assets. Their projects are historical, interesting and bring together a broad number of creative disciplines. They truly wanted to showcase their work, their team and their services in a way that brought them to life – but had been struggling to do so on previous attempts of their website.
Approach
Evolut took the time to understand the inherent beauty and intrigue within Curio’s projects and services and realised their was a significant gap to close between their current website and what it could and should be. The challenge was to help bring a new level of engagement and interest to the site and encourage users to engage further with the content within. The resulting site embraced a much refined design and layout, but also a lot more animation, interactivity and video throughout – creating a far more compelling and engaging experience.
They have a great balance of being both commercial and creative. They’ve got the technical expertise but they really go beyond with the mix of both design and commercial understanding so we can really build something that’ll achieve the desired outcome of the business. They worked with us through that. Additionally, we're impressed with their strategy. They didn’t intend to build a site that’d be demolished in a couple of years’ time. Their team is being scalable so they’ll reuse the work that they’ve done previously to build. They don’t have to restart. This shows that they’re being very careful with our money as well. Additionally, we’ve had a great flow in sales. We’ve had $7 million worth of preorders since we went live. This is far exceeding our expectations and targets. The fact that it flowed and worked well without any errors is a win.
Matthew Muller
The team has been amazing to work with. As someone who doesn’t have a solid background in media and communications, they’ve been able to get me through the process. They make things very easy to understand, and they’re agile and responsive to our needs. We’ve had really tight timeframes, and they’ve come up with out-of-the-box, intuitive solutions to offer our stakeholders during COVID. They’ve always been accessible and able to bring me on the journey very quickly, allowing me to understand web development, web design, and why we do things the way we do. They’ve come up with solutions I never would’ve thought of that have been fantastic and absolutely hit the mark.
Robyn Littlewood
Since the launch of our website in February, we have seen it make great gains when it comes to audience figures and attracting quality leads throughout the site. With the digital realm changing everyday, Evolut have been working closely with me and my team on improving the website to better attain and qualify potential leads, always ensuring that the site's mechanics, creative and analytics are kept up to speed with industry standards. I am very pleased with the level of service that I receive from Evolut and their genuine interest in our products and brand.
Helen McCabe
They have a great balance of being both commercial and creative. They’ve got the technical expertise but they really go beyond with the mix of both design and commercial understanding so we can really build something that’ll achieve the desired outcome of the business. They worked with us through that. Additionally, we're impressed with their strategy. They didn’t intend to build a site that’d be demolished in a couple of years’ time. Their team is being scalable so they’ll reuse the work that they’ve done previously to build. They don’t have to restart. This shows that they’re being very careful with our money as well. Additionally, we’ve had a great flow in sales. We’ve had $7 million worth of preorders since we went live. This is far exceeding our expectations and targets. The fact that it flowed and worked well without any errors is a win.
Matthew Muller
The team has been amazing to work with. As someone who doesn’t have a solid background in media and communications, they’ve been able to get me through the process. They make things very easy to understand, and they’re agile and responsive to our needs. We’ve had really tight timeframes, and they’ve come up with out-of-the-box, intuitive solutions to offer our stakeholders during COVID. They’ve always been accessible and able to bring me on the journey very quickly, allowing me to understand web development, web design, and why we do things the way we do. They’ve come up with solutions I never would’ve thought of that have been fantastic and absolutely hit the mark.
Robyn Littlewood
Since the launch of our website in February, we have seen it make great gains when it comes to audience figures and attracting quality leads throughout the site. With the digital realm changing everyday, Evolut have been working closely with me and my team on improving the website to better attain and qualify potential leads, always ensuring that the site's mechanics, creative and analytics are kept up to speed with industry standards. I am very pleased with the level of service that I receive from Evolut and their genuine interest in our products and brand.
Helen McCabe
They have a great balance of being both commercial and creative. They’ve got the technical expertise but they really go beyond with the mix of both design and commercial understanding so we can really build something that’ll achieve the desired outcome of the business. They worked with us through that. Additionally, we're impressed with their strategy. They didn’t intend to build a site that’d be demolished in a couple of years’ time. Their team is being scalable so they’ll reuse the work that they’ve done previously to build. They don’t have to restart. This shows that they’re being very careful with our money as well. Additionally, we’ve had a great flow in sales. We’ve had $7 million worth of preorders since we went live. This is far exceeding our expectations and targets. The fact that it flowed and worked well without any errors is a win.
Matthew Muller
The team has been amazing to work with. As someone who doesn’t have a solid background in media and communications, they’ve been able to get me through the process. They make things very easy to understand, and they’re agile and responsive to our needs. We’ve had really tight timeframes, and they’ve come up with out-of-the-box, intuitive solutions to offer our stakeholders during COVID. They’ve always been accessible and able to bring me on the journey very quickly, allowing me to understand web development, web design, and why we do things the way we do. They’ve come up with solutions I never would’ve thought of that have been fantastic and absolutely hit the mark.
Robyn Littlewood
Since the launch of our website in February, we have seen it make great gains when it comes to audience figures and attracting quality leads throughout the site. With the digital realm changing everyday, Evolut have been working closely with me and my team on improving the website to better attain and qualify potential leads, always ensuring that the site's mechanics, creative and analytics are kept up to speed with industry standards. I am very pleased with the level of service that I receive from Evolut and their genuine interest in our products and brand.
Helen McCabe
The Curio Projects
DSM™ Blueprint
When you’re dealing with architects and designers, it’s incredibly important their work is represented in a highly aesthetic and refined manner. Designs need to be pixel-perfect. The right photography must be used. The subtleties of animation and timing make a real difference. Everything needs to come together to deliver both a compelling and highly-refined experience. One that doesn’t draw attention away from the work, but rather heroes it to it’s full potential.
Utilising a clever-CMS approach and subtle animations throughout we collaborated closely with Curio to deliver this outcome in spades.
A key success criteria for this project was simply to bring to life the amazing services and capabilities that Curio Projects had but simply weren’t being given justice previously.
We worked tirelessly with the team at Curio Projects to truly capture the essence of their wonderful services and projects and bring them to life in a way that is both comprehensive and compelling. Helping bring the world of Heritage Experience in a way that hadn’t been seen before.