pixelsurgeon/k10k/surfstation
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- organicgrid0
What was the designer's name who designed his black plastic tower with his logo embossed on it, and had a hidden tray slide out with a brochure and CD inside it?
- Luda0
Surfstation and Stereotypography were my first ports-of-call back when they were up.
I remember LOVING Thomas Brodahl's work - thought his style was the best around.
I also remember visiting holodeck73, designiskinky and k10k regularly (around 1998/99). Golden days. :)
- ezkl0
Bring back newstoday (complete with the sound). that time webdesign/digital was so exciting. It was really an explosion of creativity, experimentation, people trying to figure out what can be done. Now, to use that article's title, design is all dribbblified. Shit that looks nice but that's pretty much it. Shit's boring
- instrmntl0
surfstation.com pulled all three feeds.
- monNom0
I was kinda bummed when linkdup stopped updating, but now I'm happy that it's stuck in the past. Good resource.
- I need a Hubble Space Telescope to read the text on that page.organicgrid
- woahbenfal99
- Lots of stuff still up, surprisingly.monNom
- the era of the bitmap font.CyBrainX
- formed0
I think WP, and maybe others, will continue to provide easier (and safer) solutions that anyone can implement. There will always be a place for niche designers, if only to decide the colors and do the labor.
Most people have horrible design taste, so even when presented with good options, bad ones get chosen.
The problem with bigger things like you guys are talking about above is the ads. We are getting inundated with stupid ads. This movement to satisfy WallStreet is destroying a lot of decent services while they chase profits (LinkedIn just killed their free search).
- trooperbill0
@mekk nah next step is googles knowledge vault displaying answers in search so you dont have to click through to sites. theyre intent on making an answers engine and have been working towards it since mid 2000s. rumor has it that on 21st april they'll switch off knowledge graph and move to vault... might even mean links arent a factor any more... we'll see what happens.
- kinda what I sad; the device in this case would be googlemekk
- mekk0
Those new template fuckers will go down, too.
Next step: Delivering content with plain, semantic markup, let the displaying device care for styling (Like the reader in iOS).
No more small online shops, just a system with a connection to amazon or whatever place is best. No more styling, only content and function.
- dmay0
- Nathan_Adams0
Sites come and go, just like real businesses.
- animatedgif0
It's not really because of templates. But something definitely did put a stop to them all around the same time. It felt like in the space of a year that entire scene completely died down.
Although design blogs still exist, surely It's Nice That is like a modern version of those sites?
But for "design stars" it's more about being a twitter bigshot these days.
- sureshot0
I used to troll on where-here.com back in 2000. was a great place.