Mike Tucker is a designer and developer in New York. He has always had a fascinating body of work and now he also has a fascinating website. It’s nice to see someone still experimenting with Flash and how to interact in new and different ways with the internet. You can view his all new updated website along with some very interesting new work at his website: Ludosabato.
I saw this image today and it really cracked me up. Building this blog just about killed me this year and I swear I am paying someone to do it next time around. I am super particular about design and typography and web design is just pure hell for someone with that special form of neurosis. I think this diagram is almost precisely accurate to the time spent building this blog (especially the bit about Internet Explorer). Will someone just abolish that damn browser already? I swear you should be able to trace a suicide to building a compliant website for that browser by now.
The boys at Joyengine also work under the name Cypher 13, where they work across mediums from digital to analog. They just relaunched their website in a big way where you can now see a lot more of their most recent work. They are based out of Boulder, Colorado where they also run the Joyengine storefront. They are a great group of guys and really work hard at what they do whether it be designing a logo or painting a painting. Sometimes it is as much about facilitating creative and encouraging it in others as doing it yourself.
Bak Magazine just dropped Issue 12. These guys take the “e-zine” to the next level. Much respect to them. 295-pages… and a custom page-flipper that loads onto your machine. Great issue, I especially enjoyed the interview with Alex Trochut.
The new May 1st Reboot website has launched along with this years competition.
May 1st Reboot has been around for 8 solid years now and has become a bit of a phenomenon in the Web Design community. Their new website is online now and open for entries.
If you have never heard of Reboot, it is an interesting experiment in how the creative community communicates globally now with the invention of the internet. The ‘event’ which is a better term to describe what May 1st Reboot is than competition, starts on the eve of April 25th. Participants are asked to shut down their website and put up their ‘Reboot Holder’. According to the Reboot crew, this is important in drawing attention to the even and making it distinctive. A momentary pause followed by a resurgence of new material and creative experimentation by a global collective of participants.
The actual Reboot happens at 2PM GMT. The precision of the timing is key as it shows the singularity of the event occurring across the unrestricted plane of the internet in a single instant.
It’s an interesting concept and always a fun ‘happening’ to watch year after year. If you are working on a site redesign or need one, then you should look into it and participate. If anything, to feel like you are a part of something larger and potentially make contact with your peers floating in the internet ether.
My favorite design/art/fashion/culture website, ffffound.com is quickly approaching 1000 pages of inspirational content. Thats approximately 60,000 “ffffound” images… and they are all great! This is definitely a website worth visiting everyday. Now, if someone would just write some code to make ffffound TV… with each image getting 2 seconds of air. I could spend an entire rainy sunday geeking out to that. Congrads guys and gals of ffffound. Great work!
This came onto my radar this morning and was quickly dealt with. Apparently, a certain design college class thought it would be a good idea to turn my online presence into a “web design project”… and push it “live” onto the interweb?! I am not going to put the school on blast because I have been assured that it will be yanked asap. It is flattering that students picked my work as their content for learning Dreamweaver, but I don’t know why it was uploaded to the “real-deal” internet. They even copy/pasted my bio and client list. Now, someone looking for me could accidentally find this site and think it is me… Oh, the horrors of “protecting your brand” in the “digital age”.
I don’t know why I have never seen this before but Design Charts has been linking the net’s best designed websites since June of 2007. Even better, the site itself is well designed and fun to navigate. The site makes the claim that web designers are the new rock stars. I don’t know about that. I worked for several years as a web designer and recall spending around 20 hours a day in front of a computer. I thought rock stars traversed the globe, picking up hot ladies, slamming beers all while building up a tolerance to controlled substances. I think if given the option, I would choose to just go ahead and be a real rock star.
Anyway, if you have the internet generation attention span, Design Charts is the place to give your itchy mouse clicking finger a quick fix.
Discovered via The Denver Egotist
Clever new site from advertising agency Modernista I really like this idea of pulling information from social / alternate websites to showcase a portfolio or profile. I’m really enjoying the new look, which is a refreshing move from some of there past sites here, here, here, and here. Another site that employs a similar technique is Zeus Jones, a group of ex-Fallonites that seek change.
GravisFootwear.com full re-design. New kicks and bags. Nice work homies!
Issuu.com is the definitive cyber newsstand. Definitely peruse around and keep Issuu on your radar. I bet they will trump the magazine selection of your favorite bookstore by the end of this year (100% free + 100% green). Nice work Martin!
White Void is an interactive art and design studio located in Berlin. Their website has an intuitive navigation that has to be seen to be believed. Awesome is the applicable word I think.
