Meat Market
Meat Market
A custom website promoting event spaces for hire and upcoming events at an iconic City of Melbourne venue
The Brief
Built in 1880, the Meat Market building was the centre of Melbourne’s wholesale meat trade for almost 100 years. Recognising the historic value of the building, Meat Market was purchased by the State of Victoria in the 1970’s and has undergone significant renovations to develop the venue into an arts and cultural space. With 50 arts businesses and individuals now operating from the site, along with a variety of spaces available for event hire, Meat Market is an important hub for arts development and presentation within Melbourne’s thriving arts scene.
When a dedicated City of Melbourne on-site management team was appointed to breathe new life into the venue, they required a digital presence to raise awareness of the event spaces available for hire, attract event bookings and promote upcoming events. INSPIRED was engaged to craft a custom website solution that communicated to a variety of audiences the iconic attributes of the venue and the unique events it delivers.
INDUSTRY
Arts and Culture
Venue Hire
INVOLVEMENT
Custom Website Design & Development
Keyword Mapping
Content Brief
Search Engine Optimisation
Strategic Marketing
Brand Signage
VISIT
A custom website promoting event spaces for hire and upcoming events at an iconic City of Melbourne venue
The Brief
Built in 1880, the Meat Market building was the centre of Melbourne’s wholesale meat trade for almost 100 years. Recognising the historic value of the building, Meat Market was purchased by the State of Victoria in the 1970’s and has undergone significant renovations to develop the venue into an arts and cultural space. With 50 arts businesses and individuals now operating from the site, along with a variety of spaces available for event hire, Meat Market is an important hub for arts development and presentation within Melbourne’s thriving arts scene.
When a dedicated City of Melbourne on-site management team was appointed to breathe new life into the venue, they required a digital presence to raise awareness of the event spaces available for hire, attract event bookings and promote upcoming events. INSPIRED was engaged to craft a custom website solution that communicated to a variety of audiences the iconic attributes of the venue and the unique events it delivers.
INDUSTRY
Arts and Culture
Venue Hire
INVOLVEMENT
Custom Website Design & Development
Keyword Mapping
Content Brief
Search Engine Optimisation
Strategic Marketing
Brand Signage
VISIT
Custom Website Design & Development
With a variety of end users including venue hirers, performing artists, corporate clients and event attendees, user experience was a key factor in the design of the Meat Market website. Through a process of stakeholder engagement and discovery, INSPIRED helped Meat Market articulate the requirements of each audience, and developed an information architecture which communicated to each user group.
Segmenting content into spaces for hire; resources for planning an event; and upcoming event listings, helped create a website which is highly functional and provides meaningful and relevant experiences to each user. High impact image sliders are used to great effect, communicating the versatility of the event spaces and wide variety of arts events and performances they accommodate. The home page features an upcoming events calendar, integrated with the event listings page to auto-populate content and provide users with a clear awareness of upcoming events at a glance. The upcoming events pages have been custom coded to display event promotional images, event details and booking links, venue maps and additional event features.
The modern square tile design of image and text sections throughout the site, mirrors the square iconography of the Meat Market logo to create an integrated digital brand presence. This visual branding and high contrast brand colour palette has subsequently been adopted across all marketing collateral and digital media.
Keyword research and website mapping were used to identify optimisation opportunities and a content brief for each page of the site was developed to target specific keywords. The fully responsive site is search engine optimised, using best practice technical and keyword-based SEO principles. Google Analytics and the Google Search Console were integrated with the site, providing invaluable data on user experience and interaction. INSPIRED also provides ongoing site maintenance and marketing support to the Meat Market management team as required.
“INSPIRED did a wonderful job creating Meat Market’s website. The team is professional and make practical and beautiful recommendations on ways to deliver the client’s vision. INSPIRED are always available to support our team and venue ”
– Emma Devereux, Venue Manager, Meat Market