The Client
Maury Yeston is a Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist, responsible for writing scores for Broadway productions such as Titanic and Nine.
Maury Yeston is a Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist, responsible for writing scores for Broadway productions such as Titanic and Nine.
Maury moves easily between the worlds of theater, film, and academia – writing concert music, Broadway shows, scholarly works and holding teaching posts as a musicologist and music theorist.
Maury moves easily between the worlds of theater, film, and academia – writing concert music, Broadway shows, scholarly works and holding teaching posts as a musicologist and music theorist.
Outcome
Composer website with content management
Approach
UX strategy, visual design, front-end development, CMS implementation
Focus
Showcasing a lifetime of acclaimed work in an engaging and modern digital format
The Project
A career of this scale didn’t need a complex or flashy website. It needed clarity, restraint, and intention.
A career of this scale didn’t need a complex or flashy website. It needed clarity, restraint, and intention.
We designed and built a website that features a compilation of theater music, a slideshow from Broadway shows and a news ticker with Yeston’s career highlights.
We designed and built a website that features a compilation of theater music, a slideshow from Broadway shows and a news ticker with Yeston’s career highlights.
Design & Build
We designed and built a streamlined website that puts the work first.
We designed and built a streamlined website that puts the work first.
The visual system is deliberately understated, allowing typography, structure, and spacing to create hierarchy and rhythm. Navigation was simplified to help visitors quickly explore productions, credits, and background without friction. From a technical standpoint, the site was fully custom-built with a flexible CMS, giving the client the ability to update and manage content over time without compromising the design. The result is a site that feels enduring, easy to maintain, and appropriate for the stature of its subject.
The visual system is deliberately understated, allowing typography, structure, and spacing to create hierarchy and rhythm. Navigation was simplified to help visitors quickly explore productions, credits, and background without friction. From a technical standpoint, the site was fully custom-built with a flexible CMS, giving the client the ability to update and manage content over time without compromising the design. The result is a site that feels enduring, easy to maintain, and appropriate for the stature of its subject.
