Archive for the ‘design’ Category

Web Design: Impresses

May 17, 2007

Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talented web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style. Let’s take a look at their masterpieces.

Great collection and great websites. I wish I could design this way some day. As for now I just admire these designs and think over how to achieve similar results.

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The Floating City of the Year 2000 (from 1979)

May 17, 2007

The Sea City 2000 shows some great paleo-future technology such as the dish-shaped antenna that “beams microwave energy, generated by solar cells, to a receiver on the nearby coast.” The bottom right corner shows a Buckminster Fuller design for a floating community. His design includes shops, schools and homes for 5,000 people.

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