Oct 13
Time to honor webdesign
In today’s world, where everybody is glued to the computer screen (in a few years, about 40% of all workers will work in an office - as researchers predict), interface design - and its subset webdesign - is getting more and more important.
A recent design which I tend to find spread out across the web is the illacrimo theme for WordPress from designdisease.Over the years they released a whole slew of equally beautiful and revolutionary designs including the design for the nice-to-look-at livespy.com. I don’t know if this is true, but I think designdisease invented the content/navbar/ad layout order of columns.
Update:
Another studio I’d like to add is silverorange, known for their fruitful relationship with mozilla org and their sleek intranet suite and open-source releases.
If you are into art-deco typefaces, you might have come across Hill House, a richly decorated font based on the original handwriting of architect/designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Designer Jon Hicks of UK design studio hicksdesign, which he runs together with his wife Leigh Hicks, is a jack of many design trades and signs, in their typical team-effort way, responsible for such logos as the Firefox/ Thunderbird logos and many more - following their style of graphic, nearly comic logos.
Furthermore and just for the record, we can add some of the usual suspects: In contemporary webdesign, everyone who follows A List Apart knows that we need to add Doug Bowman of stopdesign, the guy who redesigned blogger and did the default blogger themes which are now ubiquitious.
Being an expert in CSS, Jeffrey Zeldman of Happy Cog, also by his blog, regularly makes quite an impact on the scene. For today, he closes our list.
