Comments on: Beauty in web design, part 1

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By: Braintree Web Design

Braintree Web Design — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:47:18 +0000

Being a web developer myself its amazing how fast a design can become dated, with HTML5 and AJAX growing in popularity this trend will continue.

You have to innovate its the only way!

By: Travel phorography

Travel phorography — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:09:22 +0000

I think we are not bearing in mind that ‘art’ is not ‘beuty’, but ‘expression’. A way of expression. And a website is a way of communication, a paper, more than a canvas, and we should remind that, because the content is what is important in a website, complemented with the design. That’s the reason for websites to be leaded by the content, any other way, is a painting.

Not trying to offend anyone.

By: Web Design

Web Design — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:24:42 +0000

Thanks – I was not aware of a few of these and a cursory look at them on the web looks promising. Appreciate your time assembling this list.

By: Web Design Maidstone

Web Design Maidstone — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:17:19 +0000

Beauty in web design is a amalgamation of so many disciplines. Layout, Typography, Photography and the written word… for the most part its about conveying information in a direct way but in order to do that you need to elicit an emotional response from your visitor, (just like all art) there in separates the professional from the 13 year old kid in his bedroom with a copy of FrontPage!

By: SeattleDesigner

SeattleDesigner — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:11:48 +0000

There are plenty of beautiful & creative website designs out there. I get directed from Twiiter all the time to innovative sites. Agreed, many large corporate sites are designed like cataloges (not a stunning art format to begin with) they want to get the content out in easily navigated form. They are content driven, not fine art. But many smaller venders, designers & photographers sites ARE quite artful.
Let’s not forget the limitations of the media itself. Visuals created with back-lit pixels, and navigation, animation written in code. As the capabilities of the interworkings of the web and web-publishing tools evolve, so will design.
Besides isn’t “art” subjective?

By: Cole Henley

Cole Henley — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:29:32 +0000

Fascinating article Cennydd and extremely relevant to a dialogue I have been playing out in the way I design for the web (I recently gave a paper on this subject which am in the process of writing up).

A fundamental principle underlying the notion of beauty is the shift from the aesthetics of product to the aesthetics of process. We can see that in the art of the twentieth century where many artists have moved away from creating an art of representation to an art of experience (such as the landscape art of Richard Long and the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock).

I’m interested in art history (and the anthropology of the artistic process) through studies on prehistoric pottery decoration from my days as an archaeologist (but that’s another story).

The relevance of this to your discussion is the study of so-called ‘primitive’ art (that is non-representational and early representational art) by anthropologists such as Gell and Bloch as this concerns the notion of an art of agency rather than an art of representation which is exactly where we can begin to consider the beauty of web design.

If we then consider beauty in terms of the responses it elicits rather than the aesthetic qualities it possesses (not that the two are necessarily mutually exclusive) then we can precisely begin to examine (and see) beauty in web design.

Anyway, look forward to reading the next two thrilling instalments!

By: Oisin Prendiville

Oisin Prendiville — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:58:52 +0000

I think it could be argued that as art progressed through the stages you outline here artists moved away from the notion of an ideal beauty. Tracy Emin has lofty ambitions for her work, but I doubt being beautiful is one of them.

I’m looking forward to reading the rest of this series now but this is what sticks with me after part 1.