As part of his talk at FOWD London 2009, the Future Of Web Design sem­i­nar, Mike Kus screened this short film to help illustrate the process he went through when design­ing the individual slides for his presentation. I always find it so inspiring to see other artists’/designers’ techniques in motion.

Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard - Slides in 3 Minutes from Carsonified on Vimeo.

With the rapid advance of web design, more and more designers are utilizing the many powerful tools of Photoshop to illustrate some very creative (and very graphic) websites. Only recently, I’ve stepped fully into this method by experimenting on my own site to best learn what to do and, probably more important, what not to do. If you’re highly influential, there’s a risk that you’d be sucked into recreating what are fast becoming trite trends that seem to pop up around every corner you look. Bubbles, for example. Bubbles and deco foliage. It’s a good bet that 6 out of 10 graphic sites you visit nowadays will have one of the two (if not both) oozing out from the header and trickling down the sides like some fungal overgrowth threatening to swallow the entire interweb. I’m not entirely sure from whence this viral sense of design first sprang into being, but it has definitely spread like wild fire. And frankly, I don’t care for it anymore. It’s been around for a few years now and was initially viewed as quite an interesting approach, but lately, and as with most trends, it is clearly being overused. It simply is neither unique nor interesting. Continue »