[Sigia-l] Google introduces animated icons on homepage

[Eric Reiss]

Ja. Der findes grimt, men brugebart design fra alle lande.

I'm speaking of the design aesthetics espoused by the likes of Arne
Jakobsen, Alvar Aalto, and Bruno Mathsson. Online. Offline. I'm not
making a distinction here. 

See:
http://www.norway.org.uk/culture/design/design/designdag.htm

for a more typical example of "clean" design.

Honestly, Are, compare this to the examples you provided. Which site
make you more proud of your national heritage? Which one best
represents "Norwegian design"? 

I rest my generalization.

Best,
Eric
FatDUX Copenhagen (Denmark)
www.fatdux.com


---- Original Message ----
From: a.d.gulbrandsen at usit.uio.no
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Google introduces animated icons on homepage
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:06:21 +0200

>
>On 25. jul. Eric Reiss wrote:
>> Here in Scandinavia, we're particularly keen to produce "clean"
>> design with lots of white space. Invariably, I hear from colleagues
>> in Asia (particularly Japan) in response to something we've done,
>> "Great design. When are you going to finish it?" The suggestion 
>seems
>> to be that white space is a waste of space.
>>
>> I don't pretend to fully understand this penchant for clutter, but
>> there certainly seems to be a sociological factor playing out here.
>
>I think you have to be more careful when generalizing. Take for  
>example the popular Norwegian portal
>http://www.startsiden.no/
>
>In the middle of july it was ranked as the third most used portal in 
> 
>Norway:
><http://www.tns-gallup.no/index.asp? 
>type=tabelno_url&did=185235&sort=uv&sort_ret=desc>
>
>The first two on the list being an unusually visually cluttered  
>newspaper site (Norway's largest newspaper) and no.msn.com:
>http://www.vg.no/
>http://no.msn.com/
>
>I can't really se a big difference between the east asian examples  
>and the norwegian examples. - At least not enough of a difference to 
> 
>support a theory of scandinavian clean design or correlation between 
> 
>interpersonal bubbles and web design.  :)
>
>
>Best Regards,
>Are D. Gulbrandsen
>The XML-group,
>Center for Information Technology Services
>University of Oslo
>
>
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