L’épi-cerise
- Release date
- November 16th, 2011
- Type of work
- Gaume, website
- Full description
L’épi-cerise is a very warm and friendly grocery store in Chiny, a small and ancient village in one of Belgium’s most beautiful corners: La Gaume.
Pierre-Rémi and Anne-Sophie’s Grocery store downtown Chiny is a great place to start your discovery: they sell all kinds of organic products from the farms and small producers in the area: Cheese, bread, fruits, vegetables, meat, beers (obvious to anyone knowing a little bit Wallonia – try their Old Orval), apple juices, comic books, etc.
They’re also the info center for every initiative taking place in the area, served with an always-ready-to-help smile that strikes my urbanity as being simply… extra-terrestrial.Why giving a website away?
I needed to know their opening time last week and couldn’t find anything, so i made this one-pager which i gratefully offer them as a token of my personal support for their project. This young couple has many qualities i wish i had, but they’re not exactly tech-savvy so i’m glad i could improve my karma by doing something slightly good for them.
Besides, it’s obvious they don’t need more than a brief page so it seemed manageable from the start (says my right brain).Design
The design is simple: by displaying random background pictures of the Gaume area behind the core information that their audience may need, it aims to convey the message that the épi-cerise is an entrance point to the magnificence of the area.
Development
Development-wise, the one-page website is based on html5boilerplate and is responsive so that Hickers with a smartphone have a good experience visiting the épi-cerise website.
