Going simple. Going easy navigation. Going pink for the Sopp Collective new website. You like?
Like the idea of including everything you’ve done. seen, written and snapped in a single page and this approach was embraced by Paul Witherden, a London based designer.
Layout and image sequencing are key to avoid a drab listing.
Of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Jahn 
is an artist whose work explores, constructs, and intervenes natural and social systems and, a MIT graduate in Visual studies.
Ranging in practice from deeply personal to highly participatory, her work often relies on the collaborative authorship and distributive intelligence of surrounding people and situations.
Discover her latest public art and literacy project: Bibliobandido – simply awesome!
Animals and bugs are serving as section icons on Simon Collison website. Past the weirdness and first visual impression, you will grow an appreciation for the taglines that defines these. Such as “Potted Biography” and “Bloody Facebook”, for example, because he does state: “Warning this content is wry and deranged.. but 100% trustworthy and bonafide.”
Wit always puts me on high alert intellectually and indeed found a pearl for you. Access his Thoughts on FOWD 2010 with loads of references.
School will be back shortly and it’s fine time to introduce you to one of my fav. I’ve been following Hyper Island (located in Sweden) since almost onset and the sheer amount of top of line creatives that have graduated and who are moving and shaping the design world is unsurpassed.
Want to find out more about HI and why its different? Watch this video: Hyper Island in a Nutshell.
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Every year, a graduate website is released but the Cloudania version, is very different. Based around keeping in touch and networking as well as exploring avenues of creative experiments together – they created a nation from scratch.
(Was invited to teach, hope to do it soon.)
Check it out!
Blowing me away right now! Canvas Cycle: True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5. Art by Mark Ferrari. Code by Joseph Huckaby
Feeling ambivalence towards the Sample Gallery blog design. Appreciation for the do it different approach which by using huge turquoise (a bit faint as a color choice imo) titles scrolling over each blog entry and their approach to covering exclusively the best blogs out there.. the constant title repitition makes it somewhat hard to view the content behind.
So what do you think, works or not?
Very very very pretty triangular gradient shape (wish I had designed that) as well as splash landing page design dressed in a deep purple textured background for the Kaleidoscope application.
Not really sure what it does though. Enlight me.
Yummy! Pieoneers does awesome web development using Rails and their website is as awesome! Luv the creamy palette! Large illustrations and typography makes it stand out. Simple. Simple. Simple but not boring.
Gotta luv the Estudio RJDesign website. One pager with nav that lides over background and client work presented in a large panning visual! Nice!
Sidlee is a multidisciplinary creative team of 250 artisans (of many persuasions). They work globally for top-tier clients from their Montréal, Amsterdam and Paris ateliers. They are people passionate about embedding brands, products, spaces and services with meaning and resonance.
Their new website under the guise of a deceitfully simple interface hides manifold navigations which are easy to uncover, leading you to explore their creative world and achievements.
