KonzeptioNerd

What’s Wrong With arpeggiata.com?

L’arpeggiata are an early music ensamble, lead by lutist and harpist Christina Pluhar (no relation to Erika, I was told). To sample their music, go Amazon, iTunes or to their surprisingly contemporary website.

The website is aesthetic and atmospheric, with lots of content (text, images, video), e-commerce integration, and a busy forum (that’s really a guestbook, [...]

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Do Not Disturb

This webpage has an obtrusive banderole ad of 870 by 270 pixel, covering the width of the page with a video-ad.

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Kind of love Odol

Germany’s most traditional mouth wash, Odol, have updated their website. The screen-layout scales well from ca. 800×700 (weird choice) to full-size on my secondary screen (Apple Cinema 24″ - sorry to boast). I love the rasterized look of the dynamic yet generic summer imagery. Fucking brill. Great backdrop e.g. for video placement in the main [...]

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Long Journey

Frankfurt’s Senckenberg Museum have extended their latest display extravaganza Safari zum Urmenschen till August 15. Reason enough to recap my visit of a few weeks ago.
Safari zum Urmenschen - Die Geschichte der Menschheit entdecken, erforschen, erleben (Safari to the prehistoric man - discover, explore, experience the history of mankind) follows in the footsteps of last [...]

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Beautility

More timeshift-blogging (i.e. finishing a draft months after it was current news). … I guess the first time I looked at UNIQLOCK was back in 2005 just after its release. And in truth I was, well, underwhelmed. The featured fashion by UNIQLO does not match my style and the hypnotizing beauty of the dancers totally [...]

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Don’t Touch

With half a free day in London on Sunday, I skipped into my favourite Science Museum. After five minutes or so I realized my mouth was hanging open in a rather stupid manner. But that was fine, as in most other museums, I catch myself after five minutes muttering agck agck under my breath. The [...]

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Yes - but, wait, no

You cannot fully evaluate any creative work unless you know the constraints within which it was created.
… said Jesse James Garrett on his blog yesterdy.
First reaction: sympathetic. Ah, the temptation to present a newly launched project with a caveat in the lines of “but, of course, the client insisted … and then the lead designer [...]

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Bottle business - how user testing might have saved my shirt

If you’re familiar with German meeting rooms, you probably know the single serving Granini juice bottle that are often part of the catering: stubby little glass bottles with wide necks and nubbed bodies. There’s a typical gesture to drinking Granini from those small bottles. Grab the neck with your right hand. Place your thumb firmly [...]

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To name is to create (on Mark Bernstein on Wikis)

Mark Bernstein asks interesting things about Wikis these days, for example: is it possible to link ironically, or lyrically, in a wiki?. Mark argues that “to name is to link” and that “a link to SomePage goes to that page; it can’t easily lead to a commentary or a rebuttal or an alternative or an [...]

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see #3 conference

Visualize Information
Third see conference in Wiesbaden, yesterday. Cool location Caligari FilmBühne), relaxed atmosphere, nice conference.
The see series focuses on the visualization of information and the organizers, web design agency Scholz & Volkmer, managed a lineup of resounding names, engaging speakers:

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