Restaurants & hospitality
Trinosophes
A Detroit cultural institution, finally online like one.
The Eastern Market café, concert hall, and gallery — home to experimental music, exhibitions, and the Two Rooms Records and Three Fold Press imprints.
Cargo → custom
Off the template, onto a system
6 programs
Events, exhibitions, editions, café & more
100%
Custom — no templates
Challenge
Trinosophes does more than almost any space in Detroit — nightly concerts, gallery exhibitions, a café, art editions, two publishing imprints, and venue rentals. All of it lived on a dated Cargo Collective page that buried the programming and read nothing like the room itself.
Approach
We built a single, elegant site that moves the way the space does — a quiet, editorial design set in Cormorant Garamond, with events and ticketing up top, a scrollable exhibitions gallery, editions, the café, and the people behind it. Every section updates through Saystage, so a new show or concert goes live without touching the design.
Outcome
A site with the same restraint and warmth as the room — programming that is finally easy to find and book, presented with the seriousness the work deserves.
Visual breakdown
Built for a space that never sits still.
Trinosophes changes nightly — a concert, a reading, a new show on the wall. The site was designed to keep up: calm, editorial, and current, with everything bookable in a tap.
Desktop — editorial hero
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Hero
A full-bleed image of the room — light, lantern, and long tables — sets the tone before a word is read. Restraint over noise, the way the space feels in person.
Desktop — events & ticketing
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Events & ticketing
Upcoming concerts with dates, door times, prices, and direct ticket links — plus the Tuesdays at Trinosophes weekly series featured, so the room’s rhythm is obvious at a glance.
Desktop — exhibitions archive
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Exhibitions gallery
A scrollable gallery of past and present shows — visual art, archival prints, and group exhibitions — each with artist, dates, and context, drawn from years of programming.
Desktop — about & publishing
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About & imprints
The full breadth in one place — concerts, exhibitions, and publishing via Two Rooms Records and Three Fold Press — with co-artistic directors Joel Peterson and Rebecca Mazzei.
Mobile — homepage & events
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Mobile-first
The same calm experience on phone — where most patrons check the calendar and grab tickets before they head to Eastern Market.
What we delivered
- Events with dates, door times, and direct ticket links
- Tuesdays at Trinosophes — the rotating weekly series, featured
- Scrollable exhibitions gallery across the venue’s history
- Editions, café, and venue rental in one place
- Two Rooms Records & Three Fold Press surfaced as imprints
What they can manage
The team adds concerts, exhibitions, and editions through Saystage in plain English — the calendar stays current without a developer.