I found this site completely by accident. I was looking up Alex Fowkes, whom I found in Communication Arts (Nov/Dec 2013) in the "Fresh" section, and saw his mudguards for bicycles. This led me to the company he designed them for - Full Windsor. This site is so "over-the-top"! It's logo is an ape wearing a tie and a watch. The Ape hand, pictured at left, is actually your mouse. Wild I know!!!
As you scroll the mouse the ape's hand will move, grab, etc. It'll grunt if you take too much time, too. It's pretty crazy and the sounds could drive you a little bananas (haha - pun intended) but, I just felt the urge to share.
In the third picture you'll see what I was looking at that took me to their website.
The design on their mudguards and some of their t-shirts was done by Alex Fowkes.
He is a graphic designer, typographer, illustrator, etc.
I was looking at a previous issue of Print magazine (August 2009) - The Food Issue - and came across Celia Cheng. She founded Cravings. It is a website designed to guide you to restaurants in and around New York.
She has added other locations to her site since her original "start up." Some of these places include Las Vegas, Houston, Chicago and Charleston.
The first image is at the top of her home page, with the second image below it. Then there are a more images and links with this third image being at the bottom.
The fourth image is an inside page - Who wouldn't want cookies every night?
Yum!
I've been doing some research in preparation (hoping it will help) for the forms on Project 4. I found this site called JotForm and it has some basic guidelines in creating clean attractive web forms. Just thought I would share it with you.
They also have templates, apps, and support. You can design your own forms and upload them, use theirs, etc., etc. There are different pricing levels if you want to use their advanced features. To be honest, I hope I don't have to use forms in the future.
I've been on "Delicious" quite a bit lately and have run across some interesting things there. This is the website for 344.
"344 is a full service design and illustration studio with a wide array of capabilities geared toward... Sweet Lord. Are you bored already? Yeah. Me too. My name is Stefan G. Bucher, and I'm the only one here."
That is the first paragraph on the "About 344" page of the website. I LOVE it already! His sense of humor is pretty obvious and just keeps getting better.
The "Projects" page is equally funny... "While I tend to advocate for the cheap thrills of 'pretty little pictures', I can't deny the obsessive pleasures of a spreadsheet. Therefore I'm please to offer you all the work on this site in the form of an interactive list." You must check out this site if you enjoy a good sense of humor.
Notice the banner at the top? That's the links. As you hover over "Projects, Dailymonster.com, About 344, Say Hello and Store" the creature's eye follows you.
This 3rd image is of the landing page - each image, when you hover, gives another view of the one you are over.
The Daily Monster is great! I'm so jealous! The idea of making something out of an ink blot or tooth brush smudge just amazes me. I'm definitely going to return to this site to check out all of his creatures.
Yes, this is McDonald's. Believe it or not, I found a two page spread in Communication Arts (November/December 2013) Advertising Annual 54 covering a website where "people could ask any question about McDondald's food." The ad agency handling this promotion is DDB Canada/Tribal (Toronto, Canada).
As it says, they were allowed to ask anything; and everything was answered. On the site you can choose what category you want to view - Beef, Chicken, Eggs & Dairy, Potato, Ingredients, Nutrition, Produce, Sourcing, Values & Other.
You can read all of the questions & their answers, and if you don't see something that you're curious about, you can ask. Who hasn't wondered what's in a chicken "nugget", or how do you keep the sesame seeds on the buns? The answers to these questions are there; I saw them.
Check it out here and ask a question if you feel like it.
This site is a feast for the eyes and ears. It is a web documentary about the homeless in Canada. I found this while thumbing through my Communication Arts Interactive Annual 19 (March/April 2013). The article in the magazine didn't do the site justice. You have to see it to appreciate the work put into it. The site is
Here At Home.
Please go and check the site out - each little dark colored circle is a clickable link with information on it & in some cases other links - just explore...
I'm not going to say a lot here, I'm just going to share some screen shots with you...
The client was The National Film Board of Canada & there are so many names attached I don't know which ones to include, so I'll list "Departement.ca - Project Design and Development."
I was researching websites for Project 3 and ran across these. They are all for the same Champaign restaurant - My Thai. Why in the world would they have three different websites? It is beyond me. The first one is the one that I would assume to be their main one; the url is www.mythaichampaign.com which is pretty straight forward. I found it really odd that this site doesn't have a single picture on it. The only thing I can say positively is that it does seem to have all of their menu items. Also note, that they not only have a horizontal link menu at the top, but it is duplicated down the left side.
Then I came across this one www.champaignmythai.com not what I would think of first when searching for a restaurant's website, but, it works. This one is by far the best of the three. It has some little "sparkly" things in their logo that flash and they have lots of pictures (Yea!). This site also has a way for you to order online. So, I would give this site a pretty good rating.
This one was the third one I found. It is www.mythairestaurantchampaign.com which in my book is too wordy. I don't see anything really wrong with this, I just don't understand why in the world they would have three different sites. If they are using an ordering company, they could still just use one site & have that be their default.
Oh well, I just wanted to share my dismay with you.
