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Perception
Perception is a (marvellous) design studio, and this web site is eye candy too. Don' miss the page "temporal image" -- otherwise you might think it's just a brilliant PR-site with the latest works and websites of these guys, who also designed "24 hours in cyberspace" or the San Francisco International Film Festival. "Temporal Image" is "committed to the presentation of thoughtful visual work" and it presents a gallery with three sections, a photohall, a symposium with several topics (enter your comment online) and a "cineplex" with a (quicktime) film.
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The Birdhouse
The Birdhouse is a loose-knit collective, a platform for essayists and writers, painters and digital artists, for surrealists and situationists, ranters and rationalists, collagists and collaborators -- this is how they portray themselves. You'll find here a large gallery with words (essays, rants, fiction, true lies...), images (collage, paintings, photographs, digital art...) and dreams (surreal excursions we didn't just make up...). And don't miss the two "Spong" sections (HTML-art, Web-based creations) and "Happening" ("the best of The Birdhouse at any given moment")
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The Speared Peanut Design Studio
Paul and Kristina Kremer run this aesthetically brilliant website, presenting their works and projects and more. "Portfolio" features their websites, among them: Moe Tuecker's (a member of Velvet Underground) Taj Moe Hal. The "Introduction" shows you the skills and awards of the studio, while "Capabilities" offers some artsworks and a "3d-sizzler-page" (you'll need 3d glasses and a special plug-in)
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Prophet Communications
This exhibition displays art works (fine arts, design, multimedia) by students who took their exams at the Ghk Kassel (a town you probably have heard of: the documenta takes place there). Have a look at Karin Bille presenting product design about "meals on wheels," Peter Hecker poses the question: "How do I become a rich and famous artist?," Stefan Veit would like to establish a new culture of public baths with his design drafts. Or visit Eve Tenschert's page, which focuses on illness and impairment, sex and the sex industry by means of objects and installations.
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Lance Arthur's glassdog! & SOULFLARE
This site is a must see for web bon vivants. Lance Arthur will not only give you detailed information on relatively intricate HTML-stuff like frames and sounds, fonts, structures and charts, but there is much more to enjoy on his site as well. What´s more, everything is presented in an aesthetically outstanding fashion. The glassdog laboratories inform you about several web projects, SPEW is a page with many features and essays.
And don't miss SOULFLARE, a gallery really worth seeing with a lot of works by Lance Arthur himself as well as by guest artists, including collages, paintings, poems. Personally, I was mostly enchanted by Lance's "The sculpture garden."
This ever expanding part now has an own URL: SOULFLARE.
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Doc OZONE
This Website presented by DocOzone does nothing other than present graphics - with an outstanding layout and design. The homepage offers a variety of sections with quite bizarre names as "TICKTOCK", "HANDS-ON" or "ONLINE with APOCALYPSE". And then graphics come along, unusual textures (with coffee beans, rust and moss), virtual landscapes with moon and sea, real canyons, photographs of Albert Einstein, images with skies and clouds. Pages just for sensual enjoyment -- and it seems as if the navigation bars and graphic interface would change as often as you visit this site.
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ProGrafik
Designer David Drilling presents here many of his computer-generated graphics, explains graphic software and tries to make a website with a somewhat different design. And you'll have trouble finding a layout and a color- and graphic composition like this anywhere else. And don't miss his new virtual gallery "Art" with an ever increasing number of exhibitions, paintings, photos, digital art. Often it's really different to decide, what you like more: the page design or the presented art works.
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H O M E
It's just fun to look at the pictures, animations and layout on this site. Ralph Segert has created a style of ist own, obliged to some kind of minimalism or "Arte Povera". Instead of large graphics, he prefers variations of typography and background, font colors and small graphics or animations. A deatailed index presents the large number of sections: a Shockwave gallery, art & design resources, the "Gallery Home", a guide to (often unknown) web galleries and "HTML-Dreams" with graphics and animations.
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The Blue Dot
Many things can be found on this site, and they all are amazingly well. The Designers of BLUE DOT like animations as much as netscapes server push, for instance developed within the poem "Myching." We are reluctant to single out individual pages since that would mean neglecting others. A small selection nevertheless: Typography: Evolution and Aesthetics of fonts - a never ending quiz and psycho test: Are you intellectually normal? - Phramed: How many frames fit on one website? - Never again waste money for new calendars: An animation and building instruction - F.I.R.E.: US stamps that never appeared. Also worth a visit: several outstanding galleries with photographs and paintings
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Entropy 8
Auriea Harvey is 25, studied sculpture and lives in New York. On her site she wants to present creative multimedia design. "Can you foresee a time when this interactive medium will experience a movement where many artists will choose the Web as an interface for you to communicate with? that is why I have been seeking ways to define this idea online," she tells us. Without doubt, each page of Entropy8 takes a long time to download. But when the data transfer is satisfying, the site is really eye candy, offering unusual gif animations and collages, innovative photographic experiments and enchanting surrealistic images.
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