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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- www.frick.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Joan Benedetti > Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 1:07 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Beauty on the Web > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Colleagues: > > At a dinner party the other night an old friend who is a movie writer and > director (and in an earlier life a graphic designer) and who is relatively > new > to the web was lamenting the lack of what he called "beautiful web sites." > He > went on to explain that he meant really aesthetically beautiful, not just > charming or intellectually delightful. He said that as someone with a > special > interest in graphic (and moving picture) design, he was very disappointed > in > the visual aspects of the web. I had to admit that I have also not had a > really memorable cyber aesthetic experience--but I am also relatively new > to > it. > > I am wondering if any of you have found sites that have delighted you > visually--in addition to or in spite of their functionality? I know that > there is an organization of cyber artists (and even, I think, a cyber art > festival?), but I (and my friend) were thinking more about functional > sites. > Seems like this is something ARLIS/NA might even want to encourage in the > form > of a sort of cyber-Wittenborn-award? Especially if the site dealt with > art > information. > > I wish I could nominate even one to get the ball rolling on this, but I > can't. > Maybe Lois Swan Jones could suggest a few. . . . > > Joan Benedetti > [log in to unmask]