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Vintage Websites
I designed these low-res sites in the 90s and early 2000s, at a moment when many commercial websites were made first in Photoshop, then sliced up into pieces—each becoming a weblink—to be reassembled in your browser, which was usually Netscape back then. I’m somehow able to get all sentimental for the diffusion-dithered GIFs. I can smell the dial-up modem just looking at these, and remember the excitement of designing for a new medium that didn’t yet have agreed-upon norms or conventions. Now I look back at them and think about ways I could bring back some of the richness of these as I design and build today.
First Sundance Institute Website | 1996
Sundance Film Festival Website | 1997 | front page of “official website”
Sundance Film Festival Website | 1997 | Could a web menu be this lush today? I think so if its information has sufficient complexity to demand a degree of line-by-line differentiation.
My Very First Website | 1997 | A feeling of awkwardness at launching a personal site manifested as the site title, “Shameless Self-Promotion.” Does the image of a bleeding Jesus behind my name betray an underlying messianic complex? Who knows?
Bleach Magazine Pilot Site | 1996
Steelcase Details | 1995 | Survival Guide for the Computerized Office
Glamour Magazine @ Swoon | 1996 | I designed monthly cover pages for four magazines at Swoon.com, one of Condé Nast’s first forays online.
GQ Magazine @ Swoon | 1996 | I designed monthly cover pages for four magazines at Swoon.com, one of Condé Nast’s first forays online.
Tailwagger Dog Care Site | 2003
Corporate Newsletter | Monsanto | 1999