Orla Boylan, Soprano


We created the website design for opera singer Orla Boylan, along with new portrait photography. Her new online presence was designed to showcase her as an international Soprano, whilst reflecting her on a personal level too.

We outlined a brief to create an easy to navigate site that would engage users, have a lasting impression and function across all devices. 

Orla’s unusual past as a cell biologist and her love of the sea and natural elements was a huge inspiration for our designs. We found interesting textures and applied a magnified effect to imagery – using fish scales, butterfly wings, raindrops and crashing waves. We cropped the textures to form an O, for Orla, and manipulated the patterns to imitate an eye – as Orla’s eyes are such a striking feature. These graphics are complemented with an elegant and bespoke logo typeface that reinforces the circular designs.

Project type
Portrait photography
Brand identity
Website design & build

Project link
orlaboylan.com

With the new brand identity in place we focused on the structure of the website and focussed on different user journeys. We produced a design style using black and dark grey background colours and scattered different O textured graphics throughout each page.

The home page features an opening animation to immediately capture the user’s attention, followed by beautiful portrait imagery that feature colours and fashion accessories that link with our “natural” theme. We chose a pink highlight colour to contrast with the darkness and an elegant font in italics to finesse the designs.

Orla Boylan logo development – Marshall Light Studio
Orla Boylan, Soprano – Photo by Frances Marshall (Marshall Light Studio)
Orla Boylan responsive website design by Marshall Light Studio
Orla Boylan, Soprano – Photo by Frances Marshall (Marshall Light Studio)
Orla Boylan, Soprano – Photo by Frances Marshall (Marshall Light Studio)

What we did

  • Market research and analysis
  • Logo and brand identity design
  • Logo animation
  • Portrait photography
  • Digital and content strategy
  • Site architecture, UI and UX design
  • Website design for opera singer
  • Responsive website development
  • CMS integration – Wordpress
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Orla Boylan
Soprano

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Orla’s site flows with natural elegance on both desktop and mobile devices. We love how the textured graphics look and feature throughout the site, hinting at Orla’s inspiration and former career in cell biology. This originality has ensured the website is meaningful and unique, while looking visually intriguing to site visitors. Orla now has an online platform to showcase her achievements and triumphs as an artist.

Orla Boylan, Soprano – Photo by Frances Marshall (Marshall Light Studio)
Orla Boylan website design by Marshall Light Studio
Orla Boylan, Soprano – Photo by Frances Marshall (Marshall Light Studio)