Seven people,
one long table.
A designer and a developer started Scrollwork in 2016, after years of throwing work over the wall to each other.
Odile Fontenot designed websites. Renard Guidry built them. They worked at the same agency on different floors and spent most of their time explaining to each other why something could not be done. In 2016 they rented a room on Calypso Street and pushed their desks together.
It still works that way. Designers and developers sit at one table and start every project together. There are no account managers passing messages along, so the person you meet on the first call works on your site.
Why
Scrollwork
Scrollwork is the curl of wrought iron on a New Orleans balcony. It takes a smith all day and looks effortless from the street. That seemed like a decent job description.
Three house
rules
The person you meet does the work.
No sales team, no handoff after the contract. The same people stay with you from the first call to launch.
If it matters, it goes in writing.
Scope, price, dates, changes. You should never have to remember what somebody said on a call.
Bad news travels first.
If something is going to run late or cost more, you hear about it the same day we find out.
Who is at
the table
Odile Fontenot
Founder, creative director
Sets the direction on every project and still draws the first homepage.
Renard Guidry
Founder, technical director
Decides how each site gets built and answers for how it holds up.
Camille Arceneaux
Project lead
Keeps the calendar and the scope honest. Knows where everything is.
Thuy Pham
Senior designer
Type systems, page layouts, and the occasional strongly worded note about margins.
Imani Thibodeaux
Designer
Interface and motion. Usually the first to notice what a page is missing.
Desmond Robichaux
Developer
Front end, CMS setup, and the redirect maps nobody else wants to write.
Noah Prejean
Developer
Integrations, forms, and making sites behave on old phones.
Some of the companies
we have built for
Deadhead Millworks
Hotel Ombrage
Wren Hill Pediatrics
Banquette Quarterly
Bevnap
Crestgauge
Gulfward Freight
Saltmeadow Trust
We hire about once a year. If you design or build websites and want to sit at this table, write to hello@scrollworknola.com.