Science Photo Library

Science Photo Library (SPL) is the world's leading provider of scientific photography covering all aspects of science, health & medicine, space exploration & astronomy, technology & industry, earth science, satellite imagery, nature and wildlife.

Liquid Light was asked to plan, design and develop SPL online, helping to re-brand and reposition SPL with the view to captivating a more design-orientated audience..

The Challenge

To redesign the SPL website, so that it had greater appeal to the target graphic design audience, without alienating the existing publishing-based clients. The additional challenge was to make the website simple and intuitive to use for non-technical users and the large international audience group, whilst also ensuring that the site was efficient and productive for power users who use the site day-in and day-out.

The Result

A unique, highly designed website that has provided SPL with the ability to generate new revenue via the sale of the images online and the number of images online has also increased from 3,000 to 100,000 The end-user benefits from a highly useable website that offers a substantial number of images to search through for their chosen scientific topic.

"We have worked very successfully with Liquid Light for the past twelve months. Their task was the complete re-design of our web site due to our intention of expanding our online database of images from 3,000 to 100,000. We wanted to create a functional, easy to understand and accurate site where our users, a large proportion of which are not English speakers, were able to easily search, select and order images from the ones in our database."

"We found the team at Liquid Light very professional, careful to detail and always delivered their work on schedule. It was also particularly refreshing to work with a supplier that made a special effort to understand the audience that we were aiming at and we have learnt a great deal from the partnership with Liquid Light."

"We were extremely pleased with what we achieved with them and we feel that our new web site has greatly emphasised our leading as provider of scientific images. I would recommend Liquid Light to anybody without hesitation."

Giancarlo Zuccotto - SPL