Amex ripped off Tom.
Tom's portfolio site mycardmywork.com:
THOMAS O'KEEFE :: My card. My work.
Amex's new site featuring Vaginefeld:
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The worst site I've ever visited.
ABSOLUT.COM - The Official ABSOLUT Web Site
You would think it would be a simple operation to find out what artists did the latest campaign. It's bloody impossible.
Sites that suck
I just bought a new watch. I was filling out the little warranty card and I realized I didn't know what the model number was. I didn't feel like taking it off to look at the back, so I went to the company's site to see if I could find it on-line… I couldn't. What a shitty site. Shitty. Shitty. Shitty. Nice watches. Useless web design.
Back, Back, Back… GONE! Well… Reverse That…
I was in San Francisco for the How Conference this week.
The highlight of the conference itself was seeing two presentations by Hillman Curtis, one of the few "big name" web/new media designers that I really respect. His presentations were insightful, fun and inspiring. Very cool.
The highlight outside of the conference was seeing Barry Bonds hit homer number 33 of the season from great (and relatively inexpensive) seats at PacBell (a great ballpark, by the way.)
I've been waiting to see Bonds play live for close to 12 years and on the first pitch of the first at-bat I ever saw from the future hall of famer, he hit a homerun into McCovey cove. I was as happy as a little kid on Christmas. In all honesty I was choked up for about the next half inning.
The lowlight of the week was, without a doubt, being within about fifty yards of a broad daylight shooting. Hearing the sound of gunfire while on my way to lunch (at Tu Lan, a brilliant Vietnamese restaurant,) and then scampering across the street to avoid stray bullets isn't the sort of thing that I want to repeat.
Okay, okay, there are some sites that I think are pretty good
I've linked to a couple of sites recently purely because I thought they were poorly designed. I guess I should spread some good for a change and point out some sites that I think are well designed. For starters there's the personal site of designer guy/ web standards guy Jeffrey Zeldman and the home base for A List Apart, a mailing list "For People who make Websites." Light, crisp and cool…
If there's one thing I know, it's ugly.
Up for a challenge? Visit this over-animated, blue on blue, spinning, flipping, piece of crap web site. It looks like the inside of a pinball machine designed by a thousand flying monkees working blindfolded and on angel dust.
Take a perfectly good company, change its name to something meaningless and…
…all of a sudden I hate them. The Standard has an article about Accenture filing for an IPO. Which, of course, offers me an excuse to say that meaningless company names are a silly waste of time. Not that Accenture is even the worst culprit. No, that title would have to got to Genuity, especially when you factor in their equally obscurely named Black Rocket product.
And have you noticed that Accenture is using State Street's corporate typeface (Rotis for you font geeks)? Oh yeah, State Street, they're definitely the first people I think of when I think "leading edge."