Weekly Roundup

Wonderwall

http://wonder-wall.com/

Welcome back to the weekly roundup, we’ve been away for a while but we have 4 great sites for you to check out this week. First up it’s Japanese interior designers Wonderwall, whose site breaks plenty of the conventions in the web design book. It really works though. Firstly just run your mouse over their list of clients, this is entertaining enough on its own for a few minutes! Delving deeper into the site though the strange fluid cubes are continued in the portfolio making for a very intriguing browsing experience. Well worth a look!

World Domination Design Group

http://www.wddg.com/

Another eye catching and different site is the World Domination Design Group. Using retro graphics inspired by government propaganda videos, this is an excellent twist on the usual portfolio sites we tend to see. The site is mostly based around some flash videos, and the consistency of use of graphics make this site a humourous and unusual browse. We think this site is in slightly reminiscent of the design work for the Fallout 3 game which also makes use of vintage and retro graphics for its look and feel.

Trent Walton

http://trentwalton.com/articles/

A developing trend in web design lately has been to design blog posts individually, often called a “blogazine” as they often resemble the way magazine pages are designed. So we’ve got 2 of the very best examples of this. Each of Trent Walton’s blogs get a custom header and often different fonts depending on what he is writing about. The fonts and images all reflect the individual style of the page and the content, which is a great way of creating diversity in the design but still retaining common elements of the site for easy navigation. He’s not the only one either…..

Jason Santa Maria

http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/pretty-sketchy/

… taking this even further is Jason Santa Maria. Not only do the pages change based on the design, but when needed, all the logo’s links and images are also changed to reflect the nature of the blog subject. The classic example of this is his “Pretty Sketchy” post which changes the whole page to resemble a sketchbook. Not only that but the article itself is definitely a recommended read.