the ‘favourite website awards’ have announced their winner for 2010: arcade fire… seems fair enough to me, it was one of the most talked about & innovative things around this year (online)
me news
daily things
here’s another interesting ‘make something everyday’ project:
i received mail from utrecht-based illustrator ‘joost stokhof’ (aka the things we are) who is going to make a collage six days a week, for the coming year, using only images culled from that days’ edition of the dutch newspaper ‘de volkskrant’, nice…
updated online
an updated ipad friendly new website from pentagram, a fairly typical example of the ‘new simplicity’ on the web
some ‘dude’ is posing as me on the message board
sites where illustration and hand lettering is used extensively or even exclusively are few and far between, ones where it is done well are even scarcer, this one does just that…
the tone of voice, the content, the illustration style and the way the information has been placed just all seems right in my opinion, it’s a breath of fresh air in terms of the browsing experience for me, no… it wouldn’t work for lots of things and it does get tiring after say five minutes or so, but for a brief visit it simply works…
oh yeah… and the most surprising thing is who owns the website and has made all of the illustrations & hand lettering, it’s the ‘dude’ himself a.k.a. the actor jeff bridges…
often when celebrities decide to do ‘something else’ creative it can be embarrassingly awful, in this case much like the actor ‘yul brynner’ (see yesterdays post) it does feel very authentic