Magnolia Studio | Portfolio CharlesFahlen.com Web Site

During the twelve years my studio was located on the Russian River we became good friends with our neighbor, Noelle Fahlen. One day, while walking our elderly dogs, she mentioned that she had a huge collection of slides documenting the decades-long artistic career of her world-renowned, late husband Charles Fahlen. The slides had recently been digitized in high resolution, and she and her children wanted a website that would be both a posthumous tribute to his seminal creativity, as well as a publicly accessible online resource for galleries, art critics, students.

As we discussed how to turn her treasure into a wonderfully beautiful web site, it became clear that we could offer to save the estate a significant amount of money, by utilizing her intimate knowledge of the artwork, the chronology for each image, and her computer skills. Noelle loved the idea of a collaboration, and hired Magnolia Studio and Muiz Brinkerhoff of InsideSkills.com to do the design and coding for what became a massive web site, which showcases more than 300 images of her husband's scuplture and other artwork. She took full responsibility for the image production — making any necessary cropping and color corrections, and creating display- and thumbnail-size copies for each image. She also tackled the very time consuming task of entering informative and chronological details about each piece.

This collaboration resulted in a stunning web site, with gallery pages for each decade of her husband Charles' body of work. Getting so much accurate, hands-on assistance from a client is extremely rare, and without her tireless help, the website would have taken Magnolia Studio several months longer to complete, and would have been that much more expensive.