Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground - Softcover

Cloninger, Curt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735710740 ISBN 13: 9780735710740

Publisher: New Riders, 2001

Synopsis

In a light and friendly voice, the author introduces the reader to new ways of styling websites. With specific examples for each of ten categories, he provides a wealth of techniques for the designer who wishes to apply these approaches in their own work. The styles are broken down into ten categories, which are:

• Gothic Organic School
• Wireframe Icon School
• Lo-fi Grunge School
• Paper Bag School
• Mondrian Poster School
• Pixelated Punk Rock School
• 1950¿s Hello Kitty School
• HTMinimaLism School
• DraftingTable/Instruction Manual School

Super Tiny SimCity School Further explorations in the book help designers determine which style choices would be most appropriate when changing the look of their own sites.

About this title

About the Author

Curt Cloninger is a web designer, writer, and net artist. His commercial design portfolio includes sites like the award-winning (and revenue- generating) integritymusic.com. Curt is also a popular speaker at industry-wide internet conferences, and a regular contributor to design zines such as A List Apart. His net art has been exhibited at the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil, archived on rhizome.org, and featured in digital art publications like On/Off and Neural. Curt lives at lab404.com, plays at playdamage.org, and continues to hold the heretical belief that beauty enhances usability.

From the Back Cover

Looking for inspiring design ideas for your web projects? Why waste your time trying to make boring, print-based strategies work, or copying from some humdrum corporate brochure-ware site? Instead, whet your creative appetite with the unique and refreshing examples you'll find inside this book. Check out the experimental web design subculture and change the way you think about-and design for-the medium. FRESH STYLES FOR WEB DESIGNERS focuses on how these innovative approaches can be practically incorporated to improve any site-whether commercial or personal. Each of ten different "styles" of web design is explored in detail, along with a wealth of techniques for implementing each one. And while you might think these styles are useful only for the occasional avant garde artist's site, you'll find examples of corporate sites that are already successfully using these groundbreaking approaches.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Riders
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735710740
• ISBN 13: 9780735710740
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224