Monday, February 9, 2009

long pages^^

I've been appreciating the "looooong" page lately. If the Book's "double-spread" has defined modern graphic design habitually since the advent of the printing press, then the long page is becoming the digital double-spread format for the "post-paper" digital age. The long page is the blog format, the most volatile and immediate form of communication next to email. I love how intuitive it is to scan those long pages, slipping past embedded images and hyperlinks to www.youtube.com, www.veoh.com, artists pages, whole cultural movements I never knew existed. I've found that visually surfing blogs has become the predominant way I interface with the internet. I have a few blog-style long pages that I check regularly including www.woostercollective.com, a great culture jamming jump-off point, www.rojo-magazine.com, an interesting Japanese magazine and design-heavy site, and although it's not a long page, ya gotta check out www.etsy.com. The long page is interesting and I want to play around with that format this semester. Anyone have a favorite blog site or looooong page they wanna share? 

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