Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground

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New Riders, 2002 - Computers - 211 pages
In a light and friendly voice, the author introduces the reader to new ways of styling websites. With specific examples for each of ten categories, he provides a wealth of techniques for the designer who wishes to apply these approaches in their own work. The styles are broken down into ten categories, which are: Gothic Organic School Wireframe Icon School Lo-fi Grunge School Paper Bag School Mondrian Poster School Pixelated Punk Rock School 1950's Hello Kitty School HTMinimaLism School DraftingTable/Instruction Manual School Super Tiny SimCity School Further explorations in the book help designers determine which style choices would be most appropriate when changing the look of their own sites.

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Chapter 1 Introduction
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 2 Gothic Organic Style
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About the author (2002)

Curt Cloninger is a web designer, writer, and net artist. His commercial design portfolio includes sites like the award-winning (and revenue- generating) integritymusic.com. Curt is also a popular speaker at industry-wide internet conferences, and a regular contributor to design zines such as A List Apart. His net art has been exhibited at the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo, Brazil, archived on rhizome.org, and featured in digital art publications like On/Off and Neural. Curt lives at lab404.com, plays at playdamage.org, and continues to hold the heretical belief that beauty enhances usability.

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