Re: UKNM: Web Design Agencies

[Sam Carrington]

That was overly harsh IMHO - as a piece of information design it does

need some work but as a piece of creative it excellently captures the

work and style of amon tobin - its obviously intended to preach to the

converted - and as such it is a great success. It not only engaged me to

explore it and admire it, but other people looking over my shoulder too. 


When will marketeers understand that it is sometimes alright to indulge

in a bit of creativity for its own sake. Its not an ecommerce front end,

its a teaser; a trailer. Art w*nk perhaps, but innovative and

interesting too.


I loved the sequencer, and some of the use of rendered images was great.

Good colours too. All in all a very good looking poster. Are you going

to have a go at David Carson now because his text is hard to read?

Designers Republic because they cover their lovely photos in strangely

coloured masks? volumeone.com because he's not selling anything? Dogme

fillms because they dont use the same rules as hollywood pap? 


Music is an abstract art form, therefore it strikes me as legitimate

that a multimedia/hypertext representation of a musical work should

contain some level of abstraction.


After 5 minutes I was entertained, had an engaging experience, and was

left with a nice warm 'I like amon tobin' and 'I like hi-res' feeling.

Oh and it stayed stable on my panrix, but then its not as creaky as a

vaio ;-)


I could rant for longer but I really can't be bothered getting into

another circular 'we love/hate flash' debate. If you want to use it, do;

if you don't dont.


Chill out michael, have a cuppa and enjoy the abstractions that

hypertext allows. Its not always about selling books (its about selling

albums too *g*).


Michael Reidy wrote:

> 

> Excellent piece of work?

> 

> When will designers learn that people want information fast, not

> pseudo-entertainment from clever, but vacuous flash sequences. After five

> minutes, I don't know who they are or what they can offer.

> 

> Get real.

> 

> Michael Reidy


-- 

    sam carrington  //  senior web developer  //  sensei.co.uk


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