June 2012
208 posts
Awwwards critique series: Movie Trivia →
awwwards.com
I’m left torn after going through this site. I love the quiz. The interface is a great use of dragging, the design is fascinating, and the content is rich. However, the overall design leaves me empty. Paragraph text is almost unreadable partly due, at times, to lack of contrast with the background and almost all the way through due to being way too small. There’s also the matter of the interface breaking in Chrome; perhaps, if it can’t be fixed, there can be a fallback? There just seems too be too many things that could have been fine tuned.
Awwwards critique series: Homo studiosus – interested man →
awwwards.com
Now as a rule I typically stay as far away from audio in websites but I think this site is the perfect exception from the rule. I view it as a video that you can explore on your own afterwards. I’m getting tired of the paralax family of web animations though and the styling of websites that it produces. This would have been amazing if it had steered away from that. But I guess one can only experiment with so much at a time and I believed they pulled off the audio experiment in an amazing way.
Unpicking the Assange myths, and how survivors of rape have rights too →
sianandcrookedrib.blogspot.co.uk
Really amazing piece by a woman called Sian.
If you can still say you 100% support Assange after reading this you’re a misogynist and a rape apologist. Having sex with someone when they’re asleep is never fucking ok, it’s not ok if they’re in your fucking bed or if they went home with you the night before and it can have untold effects on a victim/survivor’s life.
polinski: Nothing is Louder than Zero →
polinski.tumblr.com
There’s a paragraph in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age that has always stayed with me. It’s not particularly poetic or profound, it’s just a nicely-put distinction:
Hackworth was a forger, Dr. X was a honer. The distinction was at least as old as the digital computer. Forgers created a…
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Fairy tales have gotten kind of a bad reputation, especially among women…So what I was trying to do was just turn everything on its head. Merida is not upset about being a princess or being a girl. She knows what her role is. She just wants to do it her way, and not her mother’s way.
I wanted a real girl…not one that very few could live up to with tiny, skinny arms, waist and legs. I wanted an athletic girl. I wanted a wildness about her, so that’s where the hair came in, to underscore that free spirit. But mainly I wanted to give girls something to look at and not feel inadequate.
s” —‘Brave’ Director/Writer Brenda Chapman describing Merida, Pixar’s first female protagonist (via atouchofvenus)
I think the last time I posted this it was a shorter version of the quote
(via feministdisney)
Awwward critique series: Evolution Bureau →
awwwards.com
I like it. Its clean, the content is clear, navigation is smooth. I appreciate the lack of “scrolling animation”, seemed like that was a prerequisite to win an awwward lately and was just being way too over used. I agree with toy_division that they didn’t really take any imaginative risks with their design or technology but sometimes you don’t have to. Sometimes you just need to use universally proven methods of getting you point across. I think they succeeded in this. Two things that bug me though. The splash page left me clueless as to what kind of company they were. After checking out the “work” section it was clear but it felt too much like I had to hunt for this info. Also… why does this company need so many suits? Seriously? There’s more suits than creatives.
My score: 8/10
http://trystero.me/634tb →
trystero.me
Nothing to see here
