minimalist fad?
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- phatlee0
I love minimal...
- ********0
I love minimal...
phatlee
(Feb 14 06, 00:16)I love manimal...
- mr_snuggles0
you're site is pretty minimal neon...
I also remember you being a bit of a fox, so I'll let this oversight slide this time....
- mr_snuggles0
you're = your
* bangs head on desk
- ceephax0
i don't mind a bit of minimalism but a lot of the sites i see posted on nt lately seem like little thought, originality or creativity has gone into them :(
- krust0
one page folios are all well and good, and dont get me wrong, i like them. but i think designers are afraid of a bit of style sometimes (the helvetica generation!).
i'm a bit bored of one page folios unless the work is mega-exceptional (which is rare).
i like simplicity but thrown in with a bit of originality. e.g:
www.inthehabit.comp.s. dont bother checking out my site cos it doesnt exist yet (designers are also dirty lazy human beings)
- krust0
KRUST (AKA 'conversation killer') strikes again!
- boxcar0
Even in the age of high speed internet access, one page portfolios are about the worst route a designer take / should take. Why?
Even with a high speed connection, it takes far too long to download the entire site, and more times than not, the content does not justify the long download process.
This is the deal: you all are designers. True graphic design should communicate what you want it to AND provide a worthwhile user experience. It's not all about pretty graphics. People actually need to use this, and scrolling down a page that can take multiple minutes to download piled ontop of the fact that you are making your user scroll (which, last time I checked, most people do not like to do) creates for a terrible user experience.
All this is not even stopping to consider that most of these one page books pretty much a cookie cutter as you can get.
I personally think that the one page book is a terrible idea, right from conception. This is not minimallism, it is maximilism in sheep's clothing. Dear lord people: If you are a graphic designer, design for your end users, not you. That's what you are supposed to be doing.
- shilohous0
are you posting from 2002?
jpolk
(Feb 13 06, 19:33)
- ********0
he's talking about the new retro minimalism
- ********0
I love minimal...
phatlee
(Feb 14 06, 00:16)I love manimal...
wristtattoo
(Feb 14 06, 00:25)manimal!!!!
- rise0
I've been making the same type of sites for myself since 2000.
I did a one page in like 2002~ I didn't like it,
one page, sorted by client, it wouldn't load until you clicked on the flash tho, so it was really streamline and very low-bandwith accessible.
- uncle_helv0
Minimalism isn't a style or a fad, it's a way of thinking, information boiled down, stripped of all un-essential decoration, space rather than form. And as many have said in this thread, to deisgners their work is most important so an enviroment to showcase the work, should not be an over complicated practice.
- sherman0
mnml is not a fad - its a way of life.
:)
- sherman0
ps - see here for more minimal. QWERTYlove.
- ********0
I've never understood the idea of obscuring the presentation of work with other conflicting or obscuring work
- krust0
I've never understood the idea of obscuring the presentation of work with other conflicting or obscuring work
Rand
(Feb 14 06, 08:10)the trick is not to, that's what designers should be doing best man.
- nooner0
exactly. and i have to just to keep me from wanting to change it every 5 secs.
- sherman0
dos
- ********0
changing it every 5 seconds is very minimal...
i am the same way...and i keep changing it....i dont know if i would consider myself minimal and i dont know if i wouldnt...why not both and every 5 seconds?