Back in 1998, Moiano, the Ghent based soul / funk / hiphop
collective, addressed SuspiciousMinds
for designing the moiano.com website. As I reckon, it was
our first project with real money involved. Say what? Real
money? So we were actually making websites and getting paid
for it? How about that!
Moiano is a soulful group of various musicians, with Peter
Lesage as the leading front man. If you’ve
never seen Moiano performing live, you should definitely check
this year’s Blue Note Festival at the
annual "Gentse Feesten". Moiano is scheduled to
play the 24th of July. Especially all Moog™, Fender
Rhodes© and Wurlitzer® fans should come out of their
dusty cribs because Peter Lesage has some of the finest vintage
keyboards around, producing that typical de-la-smooth seventies
sound.
At the moment they’re recording their third album.
Should be in stores later this year, but you can already visit
the restyled moiano.com website.
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Only fanatic freaks like us turn down a client’s proposal
of launching a Flash website and having it in dHTML
instead. You know, dHTML, where the D stands for DODGY (meaning:
one hell of a job to make that shit cross-browser cross-platform).
It seemed to be working out pretty nice for "Gent
Heen & Terug", a small promotional website
for the city of Ghent. The city was participating in this
year’s national Erfgoedweekend, by having several expos
all around the city. One of those expos was held at the railway
station of Gent Sint-Pieters, showing old footage on how the
station was built.
The website serves as a summary of the exposition, with the
ability to browse through all the footage once more. We went
bottom line whilst developing the website. Experimenting a
lot with these so called "web-standards". The result:
a mixed bag of javascript spielerei, dHTML, iFrames and CSS-positioning.
Client: Stad Gent
Agency: MARKEE (designers do have daytime jobs, you know)
>> www.gent-ht.be
Sven Tauras from the German designportal Cobalt Revolter had
me interviewed last month. Check
the interview for the full lowdown on what’s behind
suspiciousminds…
Raw Photoshop power, dazzling production speeds and colour
schemes to cry for. These are some of the main ingredients
of "pHake.be",
the multiplayer make-place-for-madness Photoshop webjam. The
idea is very simple: an image is chosen to start with and
will be modified and trashed up in Photoshop. The image will
be passed to the following person in line. Each designer has
exactly one hour to do his/her remake.
pHake.be
(a suspiciousminds / usaps joint) is having a new session
next month. Apply
to participate. As always, suspense guaranteed!
(On a personal note: designer-freshmen who link phake.be
to the excellent Coudal Photoshop Tennis are advised to dig
just a little deeper into the almighty web archives. Photoshop
jams were already launched in '98, with Harsh Patel, Jay David
and Justin Fox as the main curators. Those times were rockin’,
baby…).
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