Elegant websites
- Started
- Last post
- 15 Responses
- vuc
The IWC website is one of my favourites.
I really like the product photography and the layout of information on the product pages.
Yours?
- vuc0
Nothing beats the elegance of the dog-ear.
- CALM DOWN ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !monospaced
- I'll do none of the sort, not till you offer me an alternative.vuc
- OSFA0
Willow Club was prob my favorite. Don't know what happened tho...
- vaxorcist0
ok.. possibly serious now.....
I'm more of a developer than designer, but I found out early in my web career that it seemed that:
The more elegant the design, the more fragile it is....
(risk of design being wrecked by content shoe-horned into it)So... I figured out the hard way, that an elegant design, for me at least required a higher-end, branding-serious client, and a strong restraint over content specs, as the slightest extra word here or there could wreck things, and/or one photo that's not quite as good as the others could ruin the whole effect, not just that photo.....
Whereas, less elegant designs were more likely to survive extra crap being thrown at them, and not such great photos could be radically cropped in order to maintain some semblence of good design....
Any thoughts? I'm sure we all have slightly different definitions of elegant design, but I think it's also a "know it when you see it" kind of thing....
- monNom0
^ this is the holy grail of web design. a site that can continue to look good despite multiple and ongoing client attempts to destroy it with their grubby little hands.
I thought I had came close a number of times, but alas, some clients are craftier than others.
- ********0
Dam, that IWC website is just class.
- Daithi0
IWC is lovely
http://achronology.com/ is elegant in a very different wayhttp://www.bertellibici.com/ is also elegant
and it's built by http://www.francescobertelli.com… who seems to specialise in elegance- Yeah, I have seen that site before, also very good.********
- Yeah, I have seen that site before, also very good.
- toodee0
http://www.mrporter.com/ is pretty spot on.
- ********0
- vuc0
I think IWC is still the best.
- 23kon0
http://www.iwc.com/en-us/experie…
"digital wizard"
fuck off!- ha - would have been better if they stopped here. 'Josh Spear is a nomad'vuc
