Archive for July, 2006

choose your language

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Japanese. check.
French. check.
Italian. check.
PIRATE??? YARR!
If only more sites like this one had that option!

Netflix Rolling Roadshow

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Netflix Rolling Roadshow.
Roadtrip Anyone?

Nike

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Really cool use of video here.
http://www.nike.com/nikeair/us/

HP Big Print

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Simplicity + user interaction = the best banner ads.  This HP ad I think proves it.
As a designer, you can so very easily reverse-engineer their thought process to figure out how they arrived at the concept, but that certainly doesn’t mean it was easy to do it the other direction.  Often, the toughest part of […]

Admitting it is the First Step

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

The IFC Films site is, in my mind, very, very good.
It is all in Flash. It does not load a new HTML page. It loads rich, big, well-designed content about small independent films and it loads it quickly and without refreshes.  It is gorgeously representative of the independence and spirit of the films […]

Renaissance

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Renaissance has the visual style of the best indie comics, infused with a healthy dose of the style and polish of The Matrix or Aeon Flux (the original series, not the sad live-action flick).  While I can’t be sure, I assume that this was done using RotoShop, ala Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly. The effect […]

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Internet ‘96!

The Internet is a Series of Tubes

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Senator Ted Stevens is now internet-famous for offering his technical explanation of how the internet works (in defense of killing Net Neutrality)
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?Because it got tangled up with […]

Bodyworlds 2

Monday, July 24th, 2006

YAY plastic cadavers!

The Ice Man

Friday, July 21st, 2006

The Ice Man has a hot site.