FT Plays Follow the Leader
It’s sad sight for a web-designer, and probably a pride-swallowing moment for the Editor of Financial Times website FT.com, when they are forced to quickly patch up their website to the standard of the new Guardian website.
The Guardian website, from the point of view of a web designer, is immaculate. The response from FT.com is rather disappointing. For one, the influence from the Guardian website is so obvious as to be libelous, and the fact that the rest of the website reverts to the old design betrays its motives. Further, the design team seems to have opted to imitate the pink-sheet printed version by leaving the background in that odd pink colour, which, in effect, actually makes the page look unfinished.
Although at first glance the makeover seems awkward and unfinished, it still is an improvement over the previous version. It’s simply a shame they couldn’t be bothered to do the job properly. There is little more disheartening to a professional web-designer than to see an agency, with plentiful resources, resorting to myopic plagiarism to stay in the game.
Check out guardian.co.uk and ft.com
DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
Death from Above. Great music, crazy album cover….
For more information… http://www.deathfromabove1979.com/
Mux Tape
Great example of simple design which recreates a sensation. This site takes me right back to those school days when swapping tapes was all in. This is a great way to find new music and identify with anonymous strangers.
The design is great; simple, straightforward and fun. Just as we like it.
Stunt Company
Apart from a sexy web design by a favourite illustrator and designer Stuntkid (incidentally there are some great downloads available at StuntKid’s website). There are also some cool tunes.
Check it out at http://www.stuntcompany.com/
Young Love, you rock!
Threadless Tees
Threadless is a fantastic website offering professionally designed T-shirts. Beautiful designs combined with a sleek and sexy website, which works!
A winning formula!
What the f*** is typography?
If anyone has ever wondered what the f*** typography is (if you have ever heard of it at all, of course), take a look at this video and it should all become clear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v/syf8olcM0z4
It’s the classic dialogue from Pulp Fiction, in typography (“Kinetic Typography” to use the technical term). There is also the great speech from Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate there somewhere (I’m not sure what the film was called here).