Ivan Obolensky

An author site that needed to do more than display a bio. The catalog had to function as a shoppable index, with each book carrying its own page, metadata, and purchase routing. The site also had to read as a literary object in its own right — typography-led, restrained, contemporary — while remaining maintainable by the author over time as new titles were added.

A Webflow build organized around an extended discovery phase given the editorial nature of the project. Information architecture was structured around the book catalog as the primary CMS collection, with custom interactions reinforcing the literary tone without overpowering the content. The engagement ran across discovery and benchmarking, design across two review rounds, and build.

Ivan Obolensky now publishes new titles directly through the CMS without needing engineering involvement. The site functions as both an author profile and a working catalog, with the brand identity carried consistently across every surface.