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- prophetone0
group94 = my early inspiration
- fadein110
is wordpress the new whipping boy? people who haven't used it seem to criticise it. Its just a CMS - the front end can look however you like. wordpress is good for certain sites and although a lot of people are lazy and use themes it certainly doesn't deserve the slating its getting here. I don;t have to pay a programmer to do the CMS anymore so double the profit :)
- Twitter Bootstrap will be the new whipping boy soon.Continuity
- Continuity0
WordPress gets heat because of its ubiquity, kind of in the same way Microsoft does. It's the Ugly Beige Box of a Computer of the design world, united in a sort of lazy mediocrity of sameness. It gets slagged off precisely because it's too easy to implement on a basic for even the most dunderheaded out there. It provides _just enough_ aesthetic to make it not look like the site was designed using Paint Shop Pro/Netscape Composer, which is good enough for the overwhelming majority.
Hot on its heels, as I mentioned in my note above, is Twitter Bootstrap. It, too, is customisable, but it also is in the 'just enough' aesthetic category as WordPress out of the box, that many of its users just implement is as-is, unleashing even more mediocre, banal websites on the world.
Never mind RIP Flash ... RIP Creativity.
- there were a lot of boring flash sites as well. thousands of themfadein11
- fadein110
^ thats a criticism of the people who use the software not the software itself. An easy to use CMS for all (or most) is surely a good thing.
- prophetone0
what the misinformed cheddar heads choose to ignore is that wordpress has nothing really to do with looks or even set info architecture. it's an engine. wrap your brilliant design around it and do something different.
as for bootstrap, well, it suffers a fate even worse as most of the bootstrap-driven sites i've seen so far don't really push it beyond the out-of-the-box look/feel. it's great. but in the end, it's a grid system with the side of extras, there are others out there. a few i like better, personally.
but why are we here? well because group94 ruled the skool and it was a delight to check out their work when flash was my girlfriend.
r.i.p. flash. i loved you so.
- prophetone0
amen
- prophetone0
pass the mashed potatas
- Continuity0
There are a few shops that were awesome, and then totally lost the plot.
Lost Boys — back when they still had their cactus logo and only had their office in Amsterdam — were one of them. Then something about Framfab (which were also cool) and hey presto, we have boring old LBI cranking out boring old stuff.
Meh.
- Thankfully, North Kingdom still silently hang on to awesomeness.Continuity
- chrisRG0
Chrome is the new Flash
You just need to make clients accept that nice stuff will only work on it.
Also you can always make an App.
- GeorgesII0
I went through their showcase and they still got solid work,
reading their project synopsis, you see that they are slowly updating their work to html5,ps: site's too dark
- fate0
intelliboy, you sound truly uninformed in this thread.
Companies used to try pulling off campaigns on the web. We have so much more investment in digital now, but the work is lame and nowhere near as creative/cool as it used to be.
Back in 2000-2007, you would see crazy, beautiful stuff from BMW, Diesel, Absolut, Nike....they used the web a place to experiment with their brands.
Nike's Art of Speed
"An extension of the acclaimed nikelab.com, the Nike Art of Speed site presented 15 artists’ renderings of speed. Inspired by the spaceship-like environment of Nike Lab, the gallery guided visitors through a tunnel where they were greeted with an interactive trailer showing all the speed-inspired films. A virtual planetarium showcased the 15 artists’ films on floating movie screens and provided details about their creation. Nike Art of Speed became a destination for people looking to get inspired by art and performance."- Yep, it was an explosion of talent and creativity. Now not so much :( its fucking heartbreaking.chossy
- fate0
- fate0
Just a few more high-profile brands & campaigns from the past:
Lexus Minority Report
Donnie Darko
Xbox live experience
Vodafone Future Visions
DIESEL
Sony's "The Third Place" for PS2And I just looked up another one of my favorites: The beautiful and lush "Forests Forever" site put together by Fuji Film. What a shame to lose that site.
- fate0
Absolut always did some incredible campaigns on the web:
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a1.jpg">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a2.jpg">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a3.jpg">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a4b.jpg">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a4c.gif">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a4d.jpg"><img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a4.png">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a5.JPG">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a6.png">
- fate0
- fate0
DIESEL always had some wild sites. This one is style live, from HiRes
- chossy0
Remember the mill used to have a sweet flash site... not now it just looks like all the others, completely forgettable :(
- Continuity0
Other memorable campaign microsites (Flash):
- Vodafone Future Vision (North Kingdom — and a major inspiration for me)
- Being Henry (Quite recent, can't remember the agency responsible)
- ONLY The Liberation (Again, North Kingdom, together with Uncle Grey)