Handcrafting Code in a New Way
Turning pages from technology textbooks into an art installation for our office window display
By Nina Rogers
Industries
We understand the unique values and priorities to consider when designing and building digital solutions for arts and cultural organizations. When you’re fundamentally focused on how we experience our surroundings — our environments, community, space and time — then you approach the digital experience as a part of the overall human experience. It requires just as much thought and attention.
We have experience redesigning websites and custom building integral organizational software for institutions including museums, nonprofits in the arts, and cultural societies. Whatever we're working on, form and function remain essential qualities. We partner with our clients to ensure we understand their histories, missions, and intentions, and we work hard to deliver solutions that are powerful and uphold inclusivity, accessibility, and beauty.
We rescued and redeveloped DataArt's flagship software — a custom application that serves as a national resource for data collection, analysis, and insight about arts and cultural organizations. The platform is an online financial management, data collection, and research tool that provides data-based insights for arts and cultural nonprofits, grantmakers, researchers, and advocates.
“When DataArts needed to rebuild a complex data collection web application and migrate more than 20,000 active users, Foster Made stepped into the breach providing sound project management, quality code, and the flexibility to work in an aggressive agile environment with frequently shifting priorities. Foster Made provided more than developers; they were vital thought partners for our internal product team.”
- BLAKE HOLMES, DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY, DATAARTS
Turning pages from technology textbooks into an art installation for our office window display
By Nina Rogers
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Foster Made worked with us to create an intuitive, robust, and beautiful website that gives us incredible flexibility and capability to better serve our artist constituency, and support the legacy of Joan Mitchell. The well-considered content structure, ease of the CMS, and technical chops of the development team all leave us feeling confident that our website can grow and adapt to our mission for years to come.
- Melissa Dean, Design & Media Manager, Joan Mitchell Foundation