Method.
Method has a new website – and first of all: I like it a lot.
Back in the days, the old black and white Method website was one of my favorite agency websites (they had it at least until 2003, says archive.org). I liked the way they were so clear about what they do, how they achieved to communicate very well on different levels and being very appealing design-wise, although it was “just white and grey text on black background”. In my opinion a good example of a content-driven design, yet avoiding to be just another minimalism stereotype. Focus on their work and their method, no distractions, but without the website design itself being too reduced and –as many other examples– just boring.
The next version of their website was full Flash as far as I remember. I did not pay too much attention to it – not because it was Flash, I just thought it looked a bit too generic and to me personally, it didn’t fully feel like Method. I just tried to link back to the site or take a screenshot, which does not work since the old Flash detection always redirects to method.com, showing the current website.
Well, I think the current redesign is another Wow finally. Again very content-driven, clear and with a highly appealing visual design. I like the quite sublime and charming concept of featuring people and their statements as short built-in video interviews, where answers are given to questions that are not explicitely (and not necessarily) being posed. But I mainly like the focus on the design of the website’s behaviour – which to me does not feel Technology-driven at all (not reloading pages and using opacity fading for transitions is en vogue). I think it is best shown in the way the grid of teaser boxes behaves according to resizing the Browser window – a topic quite many designers and web developers are agonizing over these days:
Now just get rid of the horizontal scrollbar. And the text zooming behaviour could be improved (I know this criticism is very nerdy and anal, but these are the things that stick out with those close-to-perfect examples ;-):
Back to work.
New autechre album
The new Autechre album is now for sale at our favorite download store. I haven’t heard it yet, but check this out:
.. or listen to it here directly:
The 2007 Feltron Annual Report
Don’t miss to check out the 2007 Feltron Annual Report. You can also order a print edition.
humani TV
“kein platz für schlechtes benehmen”
“ich habe die wirklichkeit gesehen”
“ich kann mich jetzt besser entscheiden, was ich anziehen soll”
CTV084 Citizen Cam via Chaos Computer Club TV Podcast.
blog modern
basically anygivenname.org is a simple weblog, but it feels like visiting an art exhibition. very interesting. thanks andrej.
Golf Auditions
Here’s a cool web feature for Volkswagen Sweden done by Acne Digital – Web 4.0. I was laughing several times although I don’t understand a single word of swedish. Refreshing.
Der Killer von Wien
Nachdem ich vor einiger Zeit Dario Argento’s Suspiria im TV gesehen hatte und begeistert war, freue ich mich nun über die Entdeckung des Giallo Genre.
Als ich dem Videothekar mit der Hülle des genial klingenden Der Killer von Wien
Und Der Killer von Wien
Mehr Giallo-Informationen:
http://www.killinginstyle.blogspot.com
http://giallo-fever.blogspot.com
Englische Wikipedia-Seite zum Giallo
Und hier ist ein sehr ausführliches Review zu Der Killer von Wien
Barfin’ Arfin.
Some of you might know Lesley Arfin because of her regular column in Vice magazine where she published her very own diary from age 11 to 25. Honestly i never happened to read her column though i read Vice magazine every once in a while and dare to say that i really enjoy that kind of stuff. When Johannes showed me their newly launched website a few weeks ago (which i think is also genius because it turned into a very entertaining web-tv website) i discovered the “Dear Diary” channel by Lesley Arfin (subtitled “Digging into the past with Lesley Arfin and her celebfriend Chloe”). I was immediately hooked because i am always interested in diaries and teenage angst (and also celebrities to be honest - i need my daily dose of d-listed and Perez Hilton..).
I myself never wrote any diaries. The few times i tried to do it i always had to barf all over the pages i just wrote because i couldn’t stand the blabber. I guess Lesley wasn’t so uncomfortable with her own writings, she just wrote and wrote and wrote about being popular in junior high, being an outcast in junior high, having bad ass friends in high school, being into hardcore and punkrock, then being into raves and special K, then going to Hampshire college where she started the harder stuff, finally living in New York City and becoming a full-blown junkie ending up in rehab twice.
Today she is clean and a while ago she dicided to turn her column into a book. Besides the diary entries there are little passages where she is interviewing her friends and enemies from the past (some of whom she hadn’t been in touch for years) which makes the book different from the vice column. When i read this book there were a lot of things that sounded familiar (okay, just to be clear here: i was never into the heavy narcotics department and therefore never had any excursions to the Betty Ford Clinic ;-)). Sometimes it makes you laugh hard and sometimes it even makes you almost cry, but after all it is a very honest book! Buy!
Peecol toy series
A new creation by eboy: The Peecol toy series. Is there a way to get around these? Especially due to their very clever release announcements ready for christmas trade.
Every peecol character will have its own Myspace page. And there is a flickr group. Damn, these guys already own these guys.
Beautiful login page
Login pages are tricky. Whilst we as designers appreciate the clear focus and the beauty of space, very often clients think it looks “empty”, “too boring” or “not entertaining enough”.
While watching this great video, I found that beautiful vimeo login page:
number27.org
www.number27.org - the work of jonathan harris.
i really like his work, probably you know it too, but this showcase shows all his projects and gives great texts and explanations about them. some directs links to the projects themselves (but make sure you read the texts on his site too):
universe.daylife.com
www.wefeelfine.org
timecapsule.yahoo.com
Spätzle
Ich hatte gerade einen Spätzle-Workshop bei meiner Mutter, da fiel mir das geniale Otl Aicher-Zitat wieder ein:
Die Relation von Form und Material lässt sich nirgendwo so gut nachweisen wie bei Nahrungsmitteln, also etwa Teigwaren. Maccaroni schmecken anders als Spaghetti – nur aufgrund der Form. Es gibt Maccaroni die sind glatt und es gibt welche, die sind geriffelt. Es gibt gedrehte, es gibt Gnocci, es gibt gewirbelte, verzwirbelte und immer, immer schmecken sie anders. Doch die wirkliche Urform der Teigwaren – das sind die Spätzle.
Kapitulation 3
Kapitulation 2
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