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@supercooldesign.bsky.social
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Friendly, straight-talking folks who craft flexible, accessible websites for arts, cultural, and heritage orgs. We aim to make life easier for you – and your audiences 🧡 (We also plant trees 🌳)

More about us and our work: www.supercooldesign.co.uk
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Hey, Arts Marketers – want a handy round-up of useful/interesting stuff happening in the arts and culture sector?

And to be mildly entertained at the same time? 👍

Sign up for our monthly newsletter for those very things! (BONUS: You’ll also get invites to FREE #SupercoolSessions webinars)
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January 20, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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artsprofessional.co.uk
This webinar introduces The Space’s simple evaluation framework and shares insights and learnings from two digital commissions we have applied it to.
How to evaluate digital work - Arts Professional
There’s a lot to think about when you’re producing digital work. And let’s face it, evaluation probably isn’t the part you’re most looking forward to.
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 12:06 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
22 years later 🎉 …

From three people in a leaky garage in Birmingham, Supercool has grown into a Climate Action Workforce of 18 excellent humans.

We’re now dotted all over the UK, but are still crafting excellent websites for some of the UK’s leading arts, cultural, and heritage organisations.
In a bright office with white walls and skylights covered in newspaper, three people in ascending height order (Katie, Kris, and James) stand with their backs to the camera. They're looking up at a tall, wide wall. On that wall is huge map of the world.
January 14, 2026 at 11:42 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Happy new year – and happy Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 Jan 2026

🌳 5,802 trees funded

🌍 523.02t CO2e avoided

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool
A rugged coastal rock formation in the foreground and midground, topped with vivid blue sky and some wispy clouds. In the foreground, the rocks are covered in orangey-brown sponge structures, along with patches of bright green algae. The sun is shining brightly from the right, casting bold shadows; accentuating the rocks' crags, crevices, and rounded, sea-worn edges.
January 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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artukdotorg.bsky.social
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'sisterhood' for Women of Influence: The Pattle Sisters at Watts Gallery 💞

The exhibitions tells the story of seven sisters who helped shape the 19th-century cultural spirit 👉 https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/women-of-influence-the-pattle-sisters
Victorian-era green dress displayed in a glass case within an art gallery featuring framed paintings and portraits on mauve walls. Gallery room showcasing portraits and information about the Pattle Sisters under the title 'Women of Influence'
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Launching a new website is always exciting. Try adding a big season on-sale, and celebrating a major milestone anniversary. Exhilarating!

(If also a tad scary – but read the article to find out why that 'on-sale fear' isn’t always a bad thing.)
December 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 Dec 2025

🌳 5,730 trees funded

🌍 511.02t CO2e avoided

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool
A landscape of frosty fields in the bottom half of the image is topped by a clear, bright blue sky – just one long, thin white cloud coming in from the right. In the background, green hills are catching the sun. In the mid-ground , a light mist sits over frosty fields. The fields are separated by low hedgerows, dotted with bare trees which are casting long shadows from the rising sun to the right. In the foreground, the top of a hedgerow’s leaves are curled and covered with crisp white frost that’s catching the sun.
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Ever looked into ‘creative problem solving’ – but then been bamboozled by all the different systems and frameworks and courses and jargony names for it?

Well, now Andrew’s done the hard graft for you, by finding, understanding, and then distilling umpteen different problem-solving frameworks 🙌
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
We’ve been thinking about when cultural websites should embrace creativity – and when they should just stick with the tried-and-tested stuff.

Hmmm 🤔

So, there’s now an article about that very conundrum, over on our website: supercooldesign.co.uk/articles/cre...

#ArtsMarketing #DigitalMarketing
Creativity vs. Convention - Supercool
When should websites embrace creativity – and when should they stick to what's tried-and-tested?
supercooldesign.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 November 2025
🌳 5,658 trees funded
🌍 499.02t CO2e avoided
🙌 32 projects funded, including the prevention of deforestation in eastern Colombia

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool
Pastoral landscape just after sunrise. In the foreground, to the right, a wooden sign featuring a walking symbol points towards the centre of the image – that is, through a gate and downhill across rolling green fields, dotted with orange-brown ferns, mist patches, and black cows. Multiple fields are divided by green hedgerows and trees – some still with green leaves, others with leaves turning orangey-brown. White-facaded buildings are dotted across the landscape, and there’s a field littered with bright orange pumpkins. Behind all this, tops of distant hills are just visible through a ‘dragon’s breath’ mist, which is sitting over an unseen river below. The sky is multi-coloured – fading from pale yellow, oranges and pinks, up to a bright blue. Wispy, soft, blue-grey clouds float horizontally overhead.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 Oct 2025

🌳 5,586 trees funded

🌍 487.02t CO2e avoided

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool

Image: Sugar Loaf, Abergavenny, 5 October 2025
A foreground of orangey-brown, windswept ferns takes up half of the (portrait) image. Behind, a rusty-coloured hill with a distinctive flat peak. Weaving paths are worn into the sides of the hill, and a wide mown area has created a yellowy-green ‘belt’ to about halfway up. White dots litter the hillside, as sheep graze freely on the slopes. The top of the hill is slightly misty, and above sits thick, billowing grey cloud.
October 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
James and Andrew are here in Cardiff for the @museumsassociation.org Conference 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙌

If you’re here too, come and talk to us about all things digital – especially highly flexible websites, nifty ticketing and CRM integration, #DigitalAccessibility, and #DigitalSustainability.

In the meantime …
October 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
At the beginning of the year, in collaboration with Digital Carbon Online, we measured the carbon footprints of 66 cultural websites.
October 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
#ArtsMarketing folks! Register for our next #SupercoolSessions webinar:

How to make your website more sustainable 🤓💻🌳
Wed 24 Sep, 1pm
A laptop is sat, open, on a bed of moss, in a verdant, light-dappled woodland. (We don't know why it's there – that's not important right now.) On the laptop is the cover of a report: on the minty green background are the words “Cultural Website Sustainability Benchmark Report 2025”. To the bottom right is the Supercool logo.
September 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 September 2025

🌳 5,522 trees funded

🌍 476t CO2e avoided

🙌 32 projects funded inc. avoiding methane emissions from landfill in Brazil

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool
Close-up of five dusty-blue sloe fruits growing on a blackthorn tree. The bark is covered in white and yellow lichen. The lightly curled leaves are a rich, deep green and have jagged edges.
September 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
We’re hiring!

🧡 Client Services – Consultant
💰 £24-27k
📍 Remote (UK only)
👉 Permanent, full-time, flexible hours
⏰ Apply by Sun 24 Aug

We’re looking for a tech-savvy arts and culture fan to join the team.

Full details and how to apply: supercooldesign.co.uk/articles/cli...
Client Services – Consultant - Supercool
We love crafting websites, digital strategies, and brands for arts and cultural organisations
supercooldesign.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 August 2025

🌳 5,458 trees funded

🌍 465.68t CO2e avoided

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool
In the foreground, a hilltop field of sun-scorched grass with a dozen of so sheep close-by looking towards us. Top left, a tree pokes into view – shading several of the sheep. Another couple of dozen sheep are further away, dotted around the field. In the mid ground, another hill – this one packed with lush green trees. Behind that, a hazy patchwork of fields on another hill. The top of it is encased by low white clouds. Above that, breaks in the cloud reveals a bright blue sky.
August 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
We’ve launched our Cultural Website Sustainability Benchmark Report 2025 🚀

It’s a report.

About cultural websites.

And their carbon footprints (and how to reduce those footprints):

supercooldesign.co.uk/cultural-web...

Hope it’s useful! 🤗
Cultural Website Sustainability Benchmark Report 2025 - Supercool
We love crafting websites, digital strategies, and brands for arts and cultural organisations
supercooldesign.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 July 2025

🌳 5,398 trees funded

🌍 455.68t CO2e avoided

🌼 20m² of habitat restoration

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool
A clear, sunny day – under the bright blue sky, a distant black hill is visible as a strip across the horizon. Beneath the hilltop is “dragon’s breath” – a thick mist, following the course of the river below. In the mid-and foreground, rolling green hills are dotted with trees, with lush ferns cascading in from the lefthand side of the frame.
July 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 June 2025

🌳 5,338 trees funded

🌍 445.68t CO2e avoided

🙌 Projects funded include avoiding methane emissions from landfill in Brazil

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool
Bright blue sky is covered with a blanket of cloud in parts. In the foreground, lush green ferns sit in front of a grassy hillside field. There are sheep dotted around. Behind this, a line of broadleaf trees, then sun-dappled hillsides and mountains in the distance. The unmistaken pert silhouette of Abergavenny's Sugar Loaf Mountain can be made out.
June 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 May 2025

🌳 5,278 trees funded

🌍 435.68t CO2e avoided

🙌 32 projects funded inc. protection of the Matavén forest in eastern Colombia

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool
Dark, dark green seaweed with bobbly, oblong pods and blue-grey mussels cling to a knobbly rock in the foreground; which takes up half of the picture. The background is all blurred but more seaweed and mussel-covered rocks sit behind the in-focus ones. And behind them, two curves of green hills, and a blue-grey cloudy sky.
May 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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themerl.bsky.social
"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak"

our beef:
An extremely stocky and muscular ox, painted by George Garrard in 1813.
April 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
Climate Action Workforce* update of the mooooonth!

🧡 Apr 2025

🌳 5,218 trees funded

🌍 425.68t CO2e avoided

🙌 32 projects funded inc. avoiding methane emissions from landfill in Brazil

More details over here: ecologi.com/supercool
Close-up of a host of 22 vibrant yellow daffodils growing on a verge. In the background are twists of gnarly brown twigs, yet to sprout – and a bright blue sky.
April 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
A super-interesting case study here from our friends Digital Carbon Online – all about how we've helped @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social on their journey to a lower-carbon website.

The full workings and background are in the article, but the headline stat is a 72% reduction in carbon emissions! 🙌
April 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
supercooldesign.bsky.social
With changes to PCI compliance, and a rise in cyber threats – including some aimed at cultural institutions – we’ve prioritised #DigitalSecurity across the agency 🤓🔒

James has written this overview of some of the things we’ve done / are doing: supercooldesign.co.uk/blog/the-imp...
The importance of digital security | Supercool
Digital security has become an increasingly important part of our day-to-day operations at Supercool. With changes to PCI compliance and a rise in both th...
supercooldesign.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM