I Miss the Old CNet Logo
That is all.
redesignblog is an exercise in
collaborative design education. It is an open discussion of design
principles, which are then applied. Blog
entries document this process. The changelog shows progress.
Comment on posts to discuss the design.
That is all.
I recently came upon this gem entirely by coincidence: http://excalibur.happycog.com/projects/
I’m not saying it’s bad—it isn’t. But it does lack the polish, the spacing, color, and typographic details, that make a website look great. The current Happycog.com does. Now, I’m not talking usability, accessibility, cross-platform compatibility, just shallow visual professionalism. This is really exemplified (for me) by sites like Concentric Studio’s and holy-mother-of-Moses THIS.
What I’m really getting at here is that Happy Cog didn’t start as Superman and no one else should expect to, either. If you look at your sites and feel you’re lacking that polish, you’ll get there. At least you can recognize it! My personal site, twelve8.net definitely lacks a bit of this and redesignblog is questionable at best in this department, though head and shoulders above most of the web, including a few pretty prominent sites. To that end, any suggestions on adding ‘polish’, oh loyal readers?
From a CR Blog post on Creative Review creativereview’s new identity:
“Following a universal brand audit instigated in the wake of an immersion expedition led by a cohort of leading brand ideators, we engaged in a thoroughgoing knowledge accumulation programme to facilitate blue-sky thinking and empower Creative Review® in the vanguard of world class best practice in thought-leadership.”
Really? Really?
Universal brand audit? Instigated? Immersion expedition? Cohort of leading brand ideators? Yes, ideators. Thoroughgoing knowledge accumulation? Blue-sky thinking? Thought-leadership? And this is an identity? What identity exactly? We here at Creative Review have the best goddamn thesaurus you’ll ever find. But we’re so creative we even add to it.
Lord, have mercy. Link