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posted by cehannon @ 8:29 PM 1 comments

www.thefishcansing.com

This is the site for the business THEFISHCANSING. They are international advertisers with a pretty slick site. Not from what it presents, but how it presents it. They keep their page very clean, and at first glance, strictly typographic. However, after a little exploring, a potential client interested in seeing some work, can actually do so. From the home page, you are redirected towards the six links along the bottom: about us, clients, services, people, press, and contacts. As each are clicked the corresponding information scrolls up into view, and as each successive link is clicked more info scrolls in and out of view. But the neat little feature they added essentially acts as a back button (there is none because the site is entirely flash) as someone can scroll up or down through all their previously viewed content. Plus, each section is color coded which helps establish a little variety, however minimal it may be. But like I said before, their work. Where is there work? Well, under the services link, it should bring up all the fields they dabble in as well as a section of current or archived case studies. Clicking on either will bring up a straight-forward list of campaigns, and its corresponding work. Hiding their work (more or less) seemed to have made the site focused more so on its clients, its people, and their methodology, which is refreshing.

posted by cehannon @ 8:34 PM 0 comments

The clover has been appropriated countless times, and each time it takes on a new connotation, as its context derives its meaning; whether that meaning be luck, beer, cereal, football, or even a symbolic representation of Irish ethnicity itself.

posted by cehannon @ 1:20 PM 0 comments

www.quiresiste.com

This is a site of what appears to be a group of French designers (they never really say explicitly, but it comes with accessibility for both English and French speaking patrons). It is quite contemporary, not only in its exhibited graphic design but in its structural simplicity. The site is broken up into a very visible grid wherein there lies four distinct columns. The one on the far left acts as the main navigational guide as it colorfully seperates the sections of the site: in progress, works, who which what, links, and a language toggle. The other three act as the containers for the content. This structure is carried throughtout the site, which creates a nice sense of rythym and stability, yet it never gets stale. And there seems to be a nice balance of work to be viewed as well. Ranging from magazine publications, book covers, type development, video, and motion graphics (especially the "peursdunoir" link from the works in progress). If you like what you see, check out the links section as most of their friends and affiliates also have pretty cool sites.

posted by cehannon @ 10:10 AM 0 comments

For our peer site review I looked at Gina's site more closely. She depicts the narrative Ellis Island and the countless immigrants that passed through its halls, through the use of simple layouts, contemporary imagery (relative to the 1900s), and hotspot links, like in her first project. And I still really liked the idea of exploring the page and finding your way in the narrative through observation. And in this instance I believe it is more successful, especially in regards to creating non-linearity. Overall, the site's atmopshere, pacing, and narration is good. The several paths that were constructed take the viewer from a rather general to a more focused and specific perspective. This aids in creating a more believable narrative so it doesn't feel just like a slideshow. Now the images themselves feel authentic and appropriate, but the lack of text diminishes their overall effectiveness. I feel that there is a more personal narrative hidden underneath that a textual component could remedy. Because as is, the narrative is focused on the Chinese immigration of that time, which I myself am not familiar with, but I would have liked to learn.

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