Walden Street Web Studio

Welcome to Walden Street, and thanks for visiting the studio. My name is Stephen Lapointe, and I'm devoted to helping public-minded organizations, companies, and individuals succeed online through the power of excellent information design.

Since 2000, I've been consulting as a web developer for a branch of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, in the south of Norway. During this time, I've worked as lead developer for a number of challenging web projects that serve policymakers, environmental journalists, managers in the private sector, and citizens around the world. You can learn more about some of these projects in my portfolio.

Prior to the UNEP consulting work, I worked for WGBH, the American public television producer, developing content management applications for documentary film production and footage research.

My undergraduate training at the University of Pennsylvania encompassed a wide variety of subjects, including coursework at the Wharton School of Business, public policy studies, and studio courses such as oil painting and printmaking. My technical qualifications include certification as a Macromedia ColdFusion Developer.

This varied background is what drives my integrated approach to information design. Excellent web services depend on elegant visual design, robust functionality, lucid and well-edited writing, and a process that can bring these critical elements together in the partnership that forms between you as the client and me as the consultant.

Undergirding my training and experience is a firm belief that inspired information design can change the world. Thoreau might scoff at the notion of his work inspiring the name of an internet consulting firm. (I took the photograph on the front page of this site while walking to Walden Pond.) But fundamentally that's what Walden Street is about: applying the Thoreauvian ideals of simplicity and environmental stewardship in the arena of information design, working with you to make the world a better place.

If you'd like to discuss such possibilities, please feel free to call or drop me a line.