WEBSTYLES WEBCANDY FROM THE UNDERGROUND. GOTHIC ORGANIC STYLE

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WEBSTYLESWEBCANDY FROM THE

UNDERGROUND

GOTHIC ORGANIC STYLE

Organic: uses human forms, plant forms, organic shapes and textures as building blocks

Gothic: death rock, black clothing, self mutilating performance art, cadavers, decay, dark backgrounds

Guggenheim New York

Guggenheim Bilbao

Entropy8.com by Aurelia Harvey:webmuseum

.dk: http://wm.re-cph.com/39

Analogue Background Textures.

Foreground Images with Irregular Borders.

Transparent Animated Gifs.

Controlled Window Sizes.

Intentional Exploitation of Vertical Scrolling.

GRID-BASED ICON STYLE

Respect for Bauhaus Design

Fetish for maps, charts and graphs

Exploit the limits of the web for fun and profit

Found objects

Melding Photography with Grid-Based Layouts.

Using Chartjunk as Design.

LO-FI GRUNGE STYLE

Color bleeding

Smudges

Irregularities

Dirty

Pre-digital underground poster

Anti-Grid

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Control skateboards, deck graphics 1998

By Miika Saksi http://www.sueellen.org

Mesoa by gamedesigner and webdesigner Jukka Merikantos, 1999 sampling and montage – inspiration: David Carson and 1990’ies magazines Emigre and Beach Culture.

Scanlines.

Brushes for Smudges.

Motion Within a Collage

PAPER BAG STYLE

Cartoonish

Playful

Seemingly sloppy design

Colorless palette

Asymmetrical fonts

Scanned sketchbook drawings

Paperbag texture

King Kipplehttp://funnygarbage.com

1996 Dada-aesthetics - newspaper cut up, sketches, gif animations and humor

Christopher and Matthew Pacetti:

/http://www.p2output.com

http://www.stereomedia.net/

Paper Bag Textures.

Intentional Misalignment and Sloppy Boundaries.

Judicious Color Usage.

The Nomadic Navigation Bar.

MONDRIAN POSTER STYLE

Advantage of negative space

Bold blocks of color

Full screen

Minimalistic

Piet Mondrian, Compositions 1930

http://www.bauhaus.de/

Joshua Davies: http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com/

About his colors: http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/joshuadavis/

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Holistic Browser Window Design.

The Frames Solution.

The Full-Screen Flash Solution.

The Fixed-Size Solution.

The Pop-Up Window Solution.

Navigation Integrated into Overall Page Design.

Intentional Color Palette.

PIXELATED PUNK ROCK STYLE

Media aware webstyle

Off-putting

Disorientation

Annoying

User-unfriendly

Dada

Abstract

Surrealistic

Rogue Multimedia.

Full-Screen Control.

onmouseover Functions.

Big Old Ugly HTML Text.

SUPERTINY SIMCITY STYLE

Pixel Picassos:

Low-res video game designers from the 1980’ies - darlings of the modern web design underground

Tiny Pixelated People, Buildings, and Objects.

Pixelated Fonts.

Extreme Compartmentalization.

HTMininimaLism

Guru Jakob Nielsen

Beauty from the code

Effective communication

Clean, uncluttered look

Quick loading Gifs

No-nonsense attitude

http://www.gettyimages.com

http://www.useit.com/ Jacob Nielsen

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.apple.com/

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DRAFTING TABLE/TRANSFORMER STYLE

Bold conglomeration of 3D shapes floating in seminegative space.

Futuristic sci-fi look

Inspiration from instruction manuals and small print disclaimers

Cryptic navigation elements

Edgy and aggressive

Mike Young’s http://www.designgraphik.com/

Arkitekt Zaha Hadid

3D Modeling Software. 3dsmaxOpen Source: Blender 2D til at skabe 3D: Auto-Illustrator

Tiny Illegible Type.

1950s HELLO KITTY STYLE

Funky amalgam of Japanese comics, Swiss marionettes and 1950ies chrome metal campers

Amy Franceschini

3D bubble people

Surrealistic environment

Retro futuristic from the 1950ies

FutureFarmers i 1950er Hello Kitty Style

Milkyelephant.com

Tiny 3D Bubble People/Large 3D Text.

Rounded, Organic Borders.

Pastel Palettes.

50s Fonts/50s Art

Kilde:

Curt Cloninger: Fresh Styles for Web Designers. New Riders, 2001

http://lab404.com

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