Weird companies
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- NegativeSpace
I sometimes don't understand why some companies make weird design decisions.
There is this local exhibit design company near my house, I have actually poked my head into their office before. They have a great logo, really colourful, its on their building, its in their office, their office is painted nice to match from what I saw. I wish I had an example with me but their website is totally different.
Oddly enough they had their website designed recently and it is so horrible in my opinion. I actually met some guy in my area who was designing this website and wanted me to work with him. Looking at his other work I was far from impressed but he wanted me to teach him flash. I left some source files with him after showing him some stuff so he could try to understand the code. I told him after I was too busy for the site as I got the feeling he was just going to get me to do alot of work and nickel and dime me with the way he was talking. I later found out they he got paid over 15 grand for it, thats right for his first flash website.
Anyways check this site out, be intesting to see what others think. Funny that an ActionScript debugger reveals that he used all the same methods as I did in my files (I am sure he just copied my code directly). I guess he took it upon himself to make the website not follow the companies identity while he was at it.
Enjoy the lack of consistancy and gut wrenching typography, for those who have a fetish for copperplate, you will really dig this one:
- van_rijn0
in my experience, its not so much the designer that makes the call at times... the front office likes shit work and chooses it most of the time
- photovoltaic0
Wow. A paycheck of 15 grand for this site?
... what a waste :-/
- NegativeSpace0
They are a design company and deal with exhibition graphics on display booths and stuff all the time, every other thing they have is intact with their identity, but for some reason decide to forget about it for their site.
- jevad0
jesus christ
fucking idiots
- mowax0
that is like a dirt cheap job...why did they pay 15k for that..i think a student can do
- Goozebump0
fuck me 15 grnd for that and im worrying about making the "perfect" site so i always destroy designs 1000x better than this. wow thanks for giving me some perspective.
- kyl30
did they scan the images out of a newspaper?
- jevad0
did they fax the images to him?
- kyl30
let's face it, their exhibit work isn't ground breaking but you see their client list and you look at the site and you think WTF.
How could they get those clients with this site?
- Goozebump0
a good business card. research has shown 40% of clients number 1 reason for using the agency is business card design.
- jevad0
what research is that you've been reading then - Noddy and Big Ears Big Day Out?
- Goozebump0
lol
- antoine_1010
Probly one of the most hideous things Ive seen all day. The animation on it is very similar to a bad powerpoint presentation.
Yeah probly a good thing you werent involved, you wouldnt want that attached to your name/portfolio.
- NegativeSpace0
I knew by the way this guy talked to me as a high school student who knew more about alot of stuff than he did, he was trying to take advantage of me, thats why I did not get involved.
Their exhibits for Mercedes were really good a few of the years, its hard to make the connection between stuff like that and this awful website.
- ants0
look! the people are looking UP!
THEY ARE LOOKING UP!!!
UP!
what a concept.
- dbloc0
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- waynepixel0
You are fucking joking wright. £15000 for that flash site.
You are fucking joking wright. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
- stewart0
nice how the whole site scales like it's 1999!
- waynepixel0
I love the sharp images he has used in the flash site. Bring out all the details in the clients work.
Fucking Dick.
- ethios0
is anyone else here crying at the sight of that design?