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
I custom-designed all content pages for the site’s first two years. Pixel files like this went to developers for slicing and coding.
front page of sundance film festival‘s “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 this 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.
St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital, NYC
tailwagger dog care site : 2003
corporate newsletter : monsanto : 1999
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