Tag Archives: web 2.0

Vimeo is absolutely gorgeous

By Sarah W. Rose | Published: 2, June 2009
Sorry to state the obvious : Perhaps it is so beautiful that somehow I feel less inspired to mindlessly browse videos like I do in YouTube (say, for example, Keyboard Cat videos (arguably brillant in their own right)).  Vimeo makes me more inspired to search for, I don’t know, interpretive dance or clips of opera singers.  [...]
Posted in Web Design | Also tagged Vimeo, Web Design, YouTube | 2 Comments

How good graphics can change everything…

By Sarah W. Rose | Published: 27, May 2009
Since living in France, I have become accustomed to home rental services, or “gites” as they are called in French and there is a wide internet network that catalogues these homes and creates a connection with the host and the renter (to name a few: www.gites-de-france.com and www.homelidays.com). I would argue that in general, Europeans [...]
Posted in Web Design | Also tagged airbnb, Barbara Krueger, couchsurfing, design, Joe Gebbia, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, Web Design | 1 Comment

Choose your colors, wisely.

By Sarah W. Rose | Published: 26, May 2009
My friend in San Francisco has the best job on earth : “color analyst” for a major clothing company.  The company is very successful thus they have the means to create such a position and value the importance of such a position…  A lot of designers treat color like an instinctive child-like reflex…a lot of [...]
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