{"id":1221,"date":"2013-04-12T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notes.nicedream.net\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2013-04-12T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:12:21","slug":"where-are-the-canonical-web-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/where-are-the-canonical-web-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the canonical web designs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armin Vit at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/speakup\/archives\/004033.html\">Speak Up<\/a> asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Milton Glaser\u2019s Dylan poster. Paul Rand\u2019s IBM logo. Paula Scher\u2019s Public Theater posters. Massimo Vignelli\u2019s New York subway map. Kyle Cooper\u2019s Seven opening titles. These are only a few landmark projects of our profession. Design solutions that, in their consistent use as exemplary cases of execution, concept and process, don\u2019t even need to be shown anymore and that, for better or worse, (almost) everyone acknowledges as being seminal works that reflect the goals that graphic design strives for: A visual solution that not only enables, but also transcends, the message to become memorable in the eyes and minds of viewers. Whether these projects are indeed as amazing, relevant and enviable as we have built them up to be is cause for a separate discussion but it\u2019s safe to say that, as far as designs recognized around the profession, there are a certain few that invariably make the list, usually without question. Myself, I could list projects in every category from logos, to annual reports, to magazine covers, to packaging, to typefaces, to opening titles that could be considered landmark projects\u2026 But when it comes to web sites, I can\u2019t think of a single www that could be comparable \u2014 in gravitas, praise, or memorability \u2014 as any of the few projects I just mentioned. Could this be?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armin Vit at Speak Up asks: Milton Glaser\u2019s Dylan poster. Paul Rand\u2019s IBM logo. Paula Scher\u2019s Public Theater posters. Massimo Vignelli\u2019s New York subway map. Kyle Cooper\u2019s Seven opening titles. These are only a few landmark projects of our profession. Design solutions that, in their consistent use as exemplary cases of execution, concept and process,&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/where-are-the-canonical-web-designs\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}