Designchuchi

I’ve been enjoying Business Week at the gym lately. They always seem to have the latest issues and surprisingly good articles. They’ve even got a few sections about blogs and technology (actually, a lot about technology). The latest issue has a feature on failure, and how businesses who really succeed have learned to overcome failure….

The Media Boom web site is really cool. It’s drawn in an old postcard style but without the cheesy feel. I noticed a button at the bottom which allows you to change the scene to night or day. That’s cool.

The Karastan Showroom web site caught my attention. I’m always on the lookout for sites that utilize video in a good way. This is one of those. They used a bluescreen to capture video and put it over nice backdrops. This site is doing a lot of things really well, and one of them is…

Check this out people. It’s a 3D cutaway of a Black and Decker drill! Produced and illustrated by my good friend Gary Smith at Performance Design (Phoenix, AZ). He’s the best illustrator I know who does this sort of thing so if you ever need a cutaway or 3D work, or product industrial design get…

A client pointed us to the Ligne Roset web site this afternoon, and we really liked it. Very clean, and to make the pages appear wider, they set it up so that the background stretches and is attached to the right corner of the browser window.

I really like the new design for the Heinz products web site.