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- longman
i want to do a very minimal site you know something like the new becks.co.uk maybe with a little more design , but god dam its hard trying to get the boss to like it, he think there should be loads more design ( probably so the client thinks he's getting he's moneys worth.) i don't know
.anyone else find it hard when trying to push a new style you've seen.
- unknown0
my boss still loving the 3d-photoshop-effect logos. that's pretty fucked up, i think.
- Bluejam0
Style follows content, if it doesn't then that's why it's questioned.
Design isn't just a visual thing either, your boss is probably trying to get you to 'think' how to design the project at hand, how to make the content work, how to present the information, give something to the user/viewer ...etc.
Don't think you can apply style, that's not design. That's just lazy and missing the point.
- longman0
i know but the clint does 3d drawings of building etc and there images are really strong they also want very little content so i think going down the minimal route on this one ios fine its just hard to get the boss to agree, he's used to seeing strong design...
- Blofeldt0
yes, depends upon the subject. If there's text to read then the design should step back.
- ********0
"minimal" isn't a concept, its an approach to the vernacular in this case.
- longman0
what do you mean by vernacular the look of there industry
- ********0
vernacular:
The idiom of a particular trade or profession (ie.in the legal vernacular)
An idiomatic word, phrase, or expression.
In this case, in the minimal vernacular.
- unknown0
had a discussion somewhere about minimalism, maybe Flashkit, maybe NT.
It's a confusing term because where one person saying "I want my site to be minimal" means they want the site to be simple and free of too much graphics, another person saying the same thing may mean that they want their site to follow the look of minimalism artwork and design as a style.
It's like a buzzword sometimes. A few times I've seen sites criticized for being terribly plain and boring, very basic and you got the feeling they were new to web design and were still learning alot of basic stuff.
When they were told in so many words that the site was lacking in a few visual aspects aka "There's really not much there," their defense was to say that they wanted it to be minimal, in the sense of the artistic movement that is represented often in web design.But it wasn't...a few seemed like very incomplete sites overall.
Maybe that thread is here somewhere (not about specific sites but about the difference between the minimal/basic/lacking vs. minimalism as a style.
Where do you draw the line between the two?