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Food, Drink & Hospitality

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Tobacco Factory

A full rebuild for Bristol’s much-loved community hub, the Tobacco Factory. I moved the site from WordPress to Squarespace and added a custom automated events calendar, integrated table booking, Wi‑Fi newsletter sign-up and brand-led design throughout. I prioritised accessible web design: contrast, readable fonts, alt text, WCAG-minded build so the site works for all users. The team now has a site they can easily run themselves.

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Tobacco Factory, Bristol
A website for a building with a big heart

The Tobacco Factory is one of Bristol’s great rescue stories. The old factory was facing demolition until founder George Ferguson bought it and turned it into a community hub. Today it’s home to a theatre, a busy cafe-bar, a thriving Sunday market, Mark’s Bakery, Five Acre Farm Shop, and thriving workplace, home to businesses that help the local community grow. It hosts a packed calendar of events that give back to the people who support it, and you can feel the love and care behind everything they do.

They needed a website that lives up to that. It had to be warm and approachable for visitors, and easy for the team to look after themselves.

The build

I spent months on this project, much of it close to full time. I moved the site from WordPress to Squarespace, so the team now has a site they can confidently edit, update and grow without needing a developer every time something changes. Seeing how relieved they are to have that freedom has been one of the best parts of the job.

I worked closely with their brand guidelines throughout. I used their official colour palette in its accessible, contrasting pairings and built their typeface into the site’s code, so every page feels unmistakably Tobacco Factory.

Going beyond the template

Squarespace gives you a great starting point, but this site needed more. Features I built in include:

A custom events calendar with its own look, designed to mirror the style the team use when entering events, and improved so regular events like the market and weekly sessions appear automatically instead of being added by hand every week
Integrated table booking through Collins, with pop-up booking windows that keep visitors on the page
Newsletter sign-up connected to the venue’s Wi-Fi data-capture system, replacing their old Mailchimp setup
Sticky sections and scroll animations showing opening times as visitors scroll, plus fine-tuned spacing and site behaviour so it feels polished on every screen size

Working together

A building with this many sides means a lot of voices. I worked with people across the organisation to develop ideas, balance priorities, and shape a site that works for the Sunday Market team, the cafe-bar, Mark’s Bakery and the wider community all at once.

What I took away

This project stretched me in the best way. Booking integrations, data capture, coded calendars and automation were all new territory, and I’m proud of how much I learned along the way. Most of all, I’m proud to have built something worthy of a place that means so much to so many people.

Lee Kum Kee

We design and create a wide range of promotional literature, recipe cards, trade catalogues, packaging and email newsletters for Lee Kum Kee, a multi-national, Hong Kong-based food company. Lee Kum Kee produces a wide range of Chinese and Asian sauces which sell in Tesco, Waitrose and Asian food supermarkets.

We have a long-standing relationship with their European marketing team and have designed promotional and campaign literature in several languages including recipe booklets, recipe cards, leaflets, labels for sauce jars and neck tags, brochures, calendars, adverts, and we also handle on-line graphics and banners for their social media and generate their email newsletters in three different languages.

Lee Kum Kee often teams up with food celebrities, culinary authors and other high profile characters, involving their products and edoresements within their marketing campaigns.