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Essay :: Another Take on Color Selection
By Thomas Van Hare – For the past four years, quite a lot has been written about the 216 color “Netscape Color Cube” and the limitations it entails. Sadly, not only are most web surfers now viewing in at least 16-bit color, but this is about as far as most Internet designers delve into color ...
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DX Award :: The Process
The Process, designed by Juxt Interactive, is a powerful example of self-promotion online. The site was created to highlight the extraordinary design talents and strategies of Juxt, well-known in the marketplace for its work through the last year on such sites as LundstromARCH and PruLITE. What sets the site apart is that it is a ...
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DX Award :: Cartier
There are a few times online when you are surfing and you come across something that is so dynamic, so beautiful, and so well-conceived that you just sit back (as a designer) and say, “I wish I had done that.” The Cartier website is just that sort of site. Fine jewelry, typography, romance, design, and ...
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DX Award :: Dreamworks Records
Unlike past reviews, we would like to take a moment and editorialize about this Web thing we’re all in. One of the reasons why we do reviews is that it helps point the way to tomorrow. For this reason, we selected Dreamworks Records for this week’s award. It gives us all a peak at the ...
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DX Award :: Neiman Marcus
The Neiman Marcus website is a perfect example of how to market a department store online. For this fine piece of work, you can thank the design team at CircumStance Design, and their parent agency, Big Hand. CircumStance is a San Francisco-based shop and is one of the best you’ll find on the West Coast. ...
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DX Award :: Thomas Popinger
Thomas Popinger’s photography portfolio is one of the most interesting sites we’ve reviewed. Still photography, by its nature, is not a motion graphics or audio art form, and yet the Popinger site threw away the dull traditions of the past and used the Net as a medium for the experimental. Sound and motion are seamless ...
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DX Award :: Strange and Beautiful Music
Strange and Beautiful Music is yet another in a series of IPPA reviews of entertainment and music industry sites. The reason why we’ve recently featured so many sites from this category has nothing to do with the reviewers’ personal tastes in song, but much more to do with the fact that the entertainment industry has ...
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DX Award :: Starbucks
Starbucks is another example of fine design from the leading shop, Organic Online, a San Francisco-based design and integration firm with offices in the “gulch”, New York, and Chicago. Their talents span the Net itself — if you know Apache, then you know of Organic’s first success; and if you see a fine website chances ...
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DX Award :: Disappearing Inc.
The Disappearing Inc. site was created by Red No.40, one of the hot, cutting edge design shops hailing from a New York City. In the world of online design today, San Francisco isn’t the only address to have; talent lives everywhere, and particularly in New York. ARCHIVED DESIGN AWARD PAGE :: 1998 DX AWARDS This ...