bigspaceship new site
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- neue75_bold0
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the approach but more so with the execution.. wordpress allows all sorts of customisation that can produce something more interesting, interactive and/or even just something that looks like it's been 'designed' and considered..
interesting link leigh, makes a lot of sense on many levels but will this approach ultimately shoot ourselves in our collective designed feet? I mean clients [in general] already have little appreciation for our role[s] in their successes, to me this makes what we do seem even more viable for them to do in house...
there are many ways to produce something that allows easy updates, can communicate effectively and be user friendly, but I think that's not the end all be all for an agency site, granted in this economy it's probably wise to play it safe, tick as many boxes as possible and if you ruffle feathers, it may as well be only those in the industry...
- designblotter0
Reminds me of: http://odopod.com
- twokids0
its just what is happening today. next year, who knows?
everything will be papervision 3d environments!
- ukit0
Wow, this got a lot of responses.
- ********0
i can understand why they and a lot of other big agencies are moving in this direction... not least because every single client that works in digital wants to know what you can do for them in terms of social networking and user generated content. can i have a twitter? do you know what twitter is? no, but can i have one anyway?
a few years ago it was all about what you could do with full screen immersive content, lots of video, fancy transitions... and agency sites reflected that and pushed the boundaries of what could be done. but that is no longer what the clients want... they see the stats on their flash microsites, their returning visitors, the duration of their stay and then they look at the staggering numbers of people on facebook, youtube and the like and feel that they have missed out.
so, in order to appeal to the clients that open meetings with 'what can you do for us on facebook?' (which appears to be all of them these days) the obvious step is to build a site that says, quite loudly, web2.0.
as for the big spaceship site itself... well, i think it could have been put together a little cleaner... a little tighter (why the fuck are the next and previous buttons so big?) but i think they have mostly achieved what they set out to do.
their audience isn't us lot, (the two bit designers screaming 'shite', 'looks like it was built by a ten year old', 'looks like it is for retards', 'i saw a nicer site somewhere before once') it is the potential client.
- homeostatic0
You people have got it all wrong.
The future of the internet is actually Gorean, BDSM-themed strip clubs in Second Life.
- rpdTwo0
THESE GUYS KILL IT, YOU DON"T.
- Pupsipu0
I remember on the old site I tried to look at the internships page and it was some weirdly anti-aliased little Times New Roman flash text that was hard as fuck to read. And it said you have to intern 3 months minimum. Strict.
You can't argue with their decision to ditch Flash and provide content in their blogs. It could look a little better and cleaner, but maybe a sloppy look will make them seem closer to the other big internet success stories like Twitter, Facebook and Google. All of those look down to earth, no super perfect grid or fancy typography.
- ********0
this site is inherently sexist and anti-womyn