Winter Editions
Client: Winter Editions (independent literary publisher), New York, NY
Scope: Website redesign, information architecture, catalog structuring, visual system refinement
Role: Design, UX, front-end implementation
Platform: Squarespace
Timeline: November 2025 – January 2026
URL: wintereditions.net
The Challenge: Winter Editions maintains a substantial and growing catalog of poetry, fiction, and translated works, alongside a complex editorial ecosystem of authors and translators.
The existing website needed to:
Support a large, evolving body of content
Present books with clarity and editorial dignity
Balance discovery, browsing, and deep reading
Remain manageable for a small publishing team over time
The challenge was not simply visual redesign, but building a durable structure—one that could grow without becoming cluttered, confusing, or brittle.
The Approach: Rather than treating the site as a static showcase, I approached Winter Editions as a content system.
The redesign focused on:
Clarifying relationships between books, authors, and translators
Establishing consistent typographic and layout rules
Designing navigation that supports both casual browsing and scholarly exploration
Creating templates flexible enough to accommodate future growth without redesign
This work unfolded iteratively, allowing the site’s structure to respond to real editorial needs as the catalog expanded.
Design Approach:
Information architecture as foundation
The existing catalog structure was preserved and clarified, with emphasis on consistency, legibility, and meaningful relationships across books, authors, and editorial contexts.
Editorial-first visual system
Typography, spacing, and hierarchy were refined to support long-form reading and literary tone, avoiding stylistic trends that would date quickly.
Scalable templates
Book, author, and archive layouts were developed as repeatable systems rather than one-off designs, supporting ongoing catalog growth.
Thoughtful constraints
Design decisions favored restraint and structure over novelty, prioritizing longevity, coherence, and ease of maintenance for a small press.
The Result: The Winter Editions website now functions as a clear, navigable publishing platform that reflects the press’s editorial values while supporting ongoing growth.
The system accommodates:
An expanding catalog
New authors and translators
Evolving editorial priorities
What This Project Demonstrates
Designing for scale and longevity, not just launch
Structuring complex literary content with clarity
Translating editorial values into digital systems
Long-term collaboration with a publishing organization
Information architecture as a design practice
