Minimal style never dies
The minimal style will never die. It is often born out of practicality or even a lack of time. But most often it is the result of man hours laboring to refine a design down to its most functional core. Enjoy this focused set of Architectural company sites done in the style.
http://thedesigned.com/2010/01/24/36-minimal-architecture-website-designs/
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What strikes me is that the majority of these sites depend so abnormally heavily on Flash. From my experience that’s too often the case with arts sites – be it fashion, photography, interior design etc.
Apart from wondering why that is, it annoys me to no extent. Sites like these especially make you want to explore them, view their images, share bits and pieces – but no go.
What kind of webdev/design firms do these people work with?!
I hear what your saying. It does seem odd that they so often end up with flash. It’s hard to say if that is client driven or if the agencies they work with just gravitate to that approach.
Sometimes it’s very strange that they decided to use Flash, because I don’t see the point – HTML(4/5) would be sufficient for 99% of all minimalistic sites.
Some technical directors have their own ways of working… and unfortunately don’t care about search engine findability and/or cheaper/easier ways to maintain websites.
I am a [very] amateur web designer. I come from a very technical background so i find it rather easy to implement a design with (x)html and css. I think the reason most designers use flash is the visual approach to laying out the art and quickly add dynamic interactivity. Most of the designers i have met aren’t comfortable with sitting in front of a text editor manipulating tags and stylesheets. That isn’t a criticism of them, its more a criticism of website IDE’s I think that dreamweaver is very good (last time i tried it) but it still looks like a glorified text editor. What there needs to be is a package to bridge the gap. Thats just my 2 penny-cents. I think the world is going to have to move away from flash, what with HTML 5 and an non-flash iPad influenced market. Why bother making a separate site for another device?