16:42
Kashiwa Sato: Interface for kashiwasato.com
It’s rare that something gets blogged on Generator.x simply because of its wow factor. There are plenty of design blogs out there to take care of that end of things. Even more rarely are “cool web sites” reported here It’s quite rare these days to see anything that’s really all that surprising in any case.
Despite all this, something just clicked when the Flash-based portfolio site of Japanese art director Kashiwa Sato came up while blogsurfing. Simultaneously minimal and gorgeously over-the-top, it has to be one of the sexiest interfaces out in a long time. The elements used might be nothing new, but the combination is unusually potent.
The front page of the site displays a large grid of projects, each listed with a title and short description. But what steals your gaze is the animated color bars over each project, combining to turn the page into a constantly moving RGB space. Each color bar contains a selection of colors from the project in question, brilliantly giving a unique visual identification. The resulting look is not just gorgeous and visually complex, it also instantly communicates a sense of Sato’s design aesthetics.
[Via Yukio Andoh]
The overall design is good, but I didn’t like the _animation_ of the color bars. High-contrast elements moving rapidly make focusing on anything else difficult.
I’ve been obsessing over this for a little while now, I love it and hate it more than anything else I’ve seen recently!
It’s by http://tha.jp I think, the DNA from sites like http://yugop.com and http://amaznode.fladdict.net/ kind of jumps out if you follow their work…
I follow it at http://del.icio.us/fladdict/ and http://del.icio.us/yugop naturally
That’s an interesting state of ambivalence, Tom! There are obvious drawbacks to Sato’s site design, but if the intention was to impress they’ve surely succeeded. How many tedious paint-by-numbers portfolio sites do we need anyway?
For the record: For those who find Generator.x a little harsh on the eye, it was designed to be that way. It’s better to be bold than to be boring when you’re trying to reach a visually biased audience. But I think this particular design has outlived its usefulness. A redesign is in order, perhaps even something minimal…
There’s no ambivalence here – I am not sat on the fence. I love it! And I hate it!
The first comment is right that the animated bits and bobs are distracting if you’re trying to look at the site. But they’re awesome. As you mentioned on infosthetics.com the beeping is gratuitous, but unashamedly so. I agree, and I wish I was so bold. But it’s still beeping
PS Please don’t minimalify Generator.x, heaven forbid it should ever blend in!
Oops, you’re right, sorry! Just checked the definition of ambivalent to be sure. I guess I am.
[...] I usually hate sites like this, but Kashiwa Sato’s portfolio is undeniably cool. (via Generator.x) [...]
its quite similar to yugop site,maybe they are friends…
what do you think?
otherwise it look very original as well
nice job
that’s great, i found this post following a link from http://poietic-aggregator.com/ap/netart … colors and meanings are varying slightly during the surf..