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[Mario_Hugo]

http://www.loveworn.com/ikea/parent.html

Working on an Ikea branded dating game for an advertising art direction class. Still very early--wanted to see if windows users can help me work out some kinks (I'm on a mac). Only login and living buttons work and they don't take you far--curious about animation speed and font issues. THis is merely a mockup for a client--it is not the functioning website that would allow you to profile your furniture choices against others. thanks!

 

[aoi tsuki]

1. Tile animations should be at least 2x faster.
2. Subtle highlight fade is annoying, especially when rolling over furniture.
3. i actually prefer the darker official IKEA colors -- much easier on the eyes, the the gradient in your logo helps.

Other than that, great work!

 

[Mario_Hugo]

thanks very much, and I will heed all but the color complaints.

 

[Ill Saint]

The diagonal lines... they kill me. One design cliche I'd love to see disappear forever. But that's jut a personal irk.
The yellow and cyan on the Ikea logo are a definite strain, gotta agree with aoi there.

Aside from that, slick. Very nice.

 

[Mario_Hugo]

are you guys on macs or PCs--gamma settings might be the culprit for the color issues...I'll change it if it's really illegible though. I have a medical issue with my eyes averaging colors of similar tone, so I'm surprised they seem defined to me...As per the lines--I realize it's become something of a design cliche (particularly these last few years, with Jemma Gura and the Archinect crowd leading that trend), but my affinity for diagonol lines is a product of years of avant-garde, suprematist, constructivist design studies--my love of these lines, however ludicrous, will probably never go away (and they become more difficult to deny as more than a flavor of the week when you begin to think of them historically). In any event, I think the diagnols fit contextually 'cause of Ikea's modernist trimmings, and redefine the gird without breaking it.

 

[iapetus]

I'm saddened that nobody has yet pointed out that you can't spell 'compatibility'.

 

[Minotauro]

No offense to your particular site but I absolutely cannot stand Flash-based websites. You can't open new tabs, you can't bookmark specific things, you can't save images, you can't highlight text, etc, etc. Sometimes they're cool on an aesthetic level but there are basic functions that are just unavailable.

 

[RedDwarf]

The tile speed critique is the one I agree with most. It needs to be sped up a bit.

 

[gblues]

PROTIP: 8pt white bold text + robin's egg blue background = illegible.

BTW, I have my monitor calibrated via Adobe Gamma so I know my monitor settings are fine.

Nathan

 

[Ill Saint]

but my affinity for diagonol lines is a product of years of avant-garde, suprematist, constructivist design studies--my love of these lines

Ahhh, a fellow Malevich / Rodchenko / Lissitzky / Tatlin et all fan? My work too, is hugely influenced by theirs. Nice one.

PC here, and my monitors properly calibrated via Adobe Gamma, too... I'm sure the smallest of changes in the saturation or brightness of the colours will mend the issue.

 

[temp]

Why is a chair talking? This game defies logic.

 

[Mario_Hugo]

Ill, you absolutely must buy the Moma Russian Avante-Garde book. They don't really show much in the way of paintings, but some of the Malevich and Tatlin prints are gorgeous.

Chair talking has to do with print campaign. thanks for the protip, be it snide or not, btw.

 

[Ill Saint]

Ill, you absolutely must buy the Moma Russian Avante-Garde book. They don't really show much in the way of paintings, but some of the Malevich and Tatlin prints are gorgeous.

Been there done that I have a small collection of art books, a lot of it comprising of the Russian Avant Garde. Buying all these books is making me very poor though, but I can't help it... :lol

 

[Mario_Hugo]

haha. Well, one more on that list--Josef Muller-Brockman's History of the Poster. Good guide to post bauhaus swiss design (it is a brockman book after all), but has really great chapters about art nouveau, arts and crafts, constructivisism, through post modernism. late.

 

[Ill Saint]

Cheers, I'll look it up!