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Please try the website of the summer 1999-exhibition 'Panorama 2000' in
Utrecht, the Netherlands: sober, efficient, and at the same time highly
inventive. A good specimen of 'Dutch design'. I especially like the way
the links in the site are made.
Although I am a person concerned (working as librarian in the Centraal
Museum Utrecht, the organizing museum), I truly think this is one of the
best designs.
The adress: www.panorama2000.com

Roman Koot



Joan Benedetti wrote:
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> 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
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