M/DELRIO.
These Projects Don't Do themselves You know?
Exercise 4: Understanding Image Slicing
Interesting Links to Link to
with your Linking Clicker Mouse
This is a website devoted to portrait paintings, sculptures, or other art forms
which became the covers of TIME magazine. This site was mainly chosen for
its interesting
style of navigation. Rather than use the scroll bar on the side,
the mouse cursor allows you
to guide over a montage of all the magazine covers.
By doing this, it changes the perception
of window space, and takes the restrictions
off of your typical window box.
I find myself enjoying sites which stray from your typical use of solid bright bricks
of colors
and bars to form the main structure of the site. This website, about a globe
manufacturer, uses color
and line, as well as a classy type face to evoke themes of
cartography and old travel books. It has the
logic of a well crafted web-site but has
a unique interface which seperates it from the norm.
Here is the website of one of my favorite bands, Kraftwerk, which I have always
been quite fond of. It's pretty flashed out, and actually seems outdated in terms
of
techniques and appearance (eventhough Kraftwerk is supposed to be all cutting edge
and shit) but it's got some redeeming qualities. It has some recent photos of the band
and for the song pocket calculator, it has this calculator interface which you can program
your
own songs into and playback. Jazzy.
Here is a nice website for an odd client. The company sells original tapestries, as in painted,
wall sized art from way long ago. It seems that only a slim demograhic of people would really
look
at this site seriously, but the site has a nice look. It's also quite flash-y, but flash is used in a nice,
effective way. The various info-panels will load by sliding in or fading, and there are no time consuming
animations. The pictures of the tapestries add a nice texture to the site, and the color scheme fits with
the site subject.
Here is website which exists only to glorify that sacred fluid, beer. Again, what I liked about this
site is that it doesn't stick to solid block of color to organize information, but rather uses rich
textures from photographs to give the site its atmosphere. The site is also flash heavy, but it's used in
a clean and timely fashion. The site has a complex busy look, but its system of organization is clear and
easy
to navigate. Watch out for the annoying soundbytes though.