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Fireflight - iamunbreakable.com

Fireflight - iamunbreakable.com

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Artist: Fireflight
Album Site: iamunbreakable.com
Album: Unbreakable
Label: Flicker
Designer: ???
Release Date: March 4, 2008

After a passable intro we’re brought to an interesting interactive page where the user clicks on various clearly-labeled links and a photo of a certain aspect of the artwork theme pops up (I’m guessing the photos are part of the physical layout). It was interesting enough for me to click on each link and see all the photos, but if you’re not into this sort of thing you can click the center graphic to get to the main site, which is mostly a souped up e-card.

The content is kind of the stock promo material but exciting if you’re a fan of the band. I definitely do like the photo theme interaction after the intro. It might a small peek into the future where physical CDs will be phased out almost completely (it’s bound to happen) and the internet will be the primary content delivery tool.

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Written by † Jay
Posted on 27 May 2008 at 9:00 am
Filed under Album Sites, Designs, Internet
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The Manchester Orchestra - themanchesterorchestra.com

The Manchester Orchestra - themanchesterorchestra.com

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Artist: The Manchester Orchestra
Designer: Ginger Group Designs

I like this…the disorganized look hasn’t been too big in site design the past few years, and for some good usability reasons. I’m on the fence in this case. This can get a little too busy/distracting for some people, but maybe some of us have been so desensitized after a good decade’s worth of internet usage that it doesn’t really matter anymore.

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Written by † Jay
Posted on 21 May 2008 at 8:00 am
Filed under Designs, Websites, Internet
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Taking Over - taking-over.com

Taking Over - taking-over.com

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Artist: Taking Over
Designer: Shorthanded Studio

Strong and blocky layout with nicely defined border which makes for easy content reading. I did find it odd that the right sidebar is the same width as the content area, but it almost doesn’t function as a sidebar. The meta-info area is relegated to the bottom, as wide as both columns - a design trick that I’ve seen elsewhere but also isn’t the blogworld’s modus operandi. It works well either way.

[hat tip: Indie Vision Music]

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Written by † Jay
Posted on 09 May 2008 at 9:00 am
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Damiera - damiera.com

Damiera - damiera.com

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Artist: Damiera
Designer: ???
Latest Release: M(US)IC

Nice, simple design that is more blog than actual site, which seems to be the way of all things official website these days. The left column could use some de-cluttering organization, but with more content, this will be a golden site.

[hat tip: Buzzgrinder]

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Written by † Jay
Posted on 19 February 2008 at 12:00 pm
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Crash Romeo - Gave Me The Clap ecard

Crash Romeo - Gave Me The Clap ecard

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Artist: Crash Romeo
Release: Gave Me The Clap
Label: Trustkill
Designer: ???
Release Date: March 25, 2008

Not as good as a lot of ecards I’ve seen. The intro is a little bland, and there’s a little clutter and unreadability of the text on the main page, if you can manage to not be distracted by the tiled background.

It sounds like I really don’t like this, but I don’t mind it. Its main attribute is its unobtrusiveness, whatever that means.

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Written by † Jay
Posted on 13 February 2008 at 12:00 pm
Filed under Designs, Ecards, Internet
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Demon Hunter - demonhunter.net

Demon Hunter - demonhunter.net

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Artist: Demon Hunter
Designer: Online Revolution Design
Latest Release: Storm the Gates of Hell

Looks similar to their last design, which was also good. The photo animation can get a little taxing for some people. ORD use those navigation rollovers elsewhere, and it always makes me spend a little more mouse time. Get to it!
[hat tip: Indie Vision Music]

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Written by † Jay
Posted on 05 February 2008 at 3:00 pm
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Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

Gnarls Barkley

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Artist: Gnarls Barkley
Release: The Odd Couple
Label: ???
Designer: Siggi Eggertson
Release Date: April 2008

Haven’t actually seen the design credit but am 100% positive that this is Siggi Eggertson’s work. I’ve been a fan of Siggi’s for some time now and it’s always exciting to see others find him and his work. Given the amount of artwork floating around for Gnarls’ first album I have no idea if the is the actual cover design… one could hope. I have to thank Alex at Pink Ring for bringing this to my attention.

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Written by † Mike
Posted on 05 February 2008 at 2:00 pm
Filed under Online Covers, Designs, Websites, Internet
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Once Nothing - First Came The Law

Once Nothing - First Came The Law ecard

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Artist: Once Nothing
Release: First Came The Law
Label: Solid State
Designer: Online Revolution Design
Release Date: January 15, 2008

Nice gritty and film-grainy intro to this “blue collar metal” band from Steel City. I feel like I’m watching film rather than a .swf file. The actual ecard is a lot plainer but it gets the job done well.

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Written by † Jay
Posted on 22 January 2008 at 9:00 am
Filed under Designs, Ecards, Internet
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Albumart.org

Albumart.org

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If you’re like me, you use iTunes. And sometimes with iTunes, an album’s artwork won’t download or you’ll get an image version too small for even the cover flow view. Enter albumart.org, where you can find the most obscure of covers. At the very least it saves some time from flipping through Google image search results.

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Written by † Jay
Posted on 17 January 2008 at 9:00 am
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Daybreak Media - daybreakmedia.com

Daybreak Media - daybreakmedia.com

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This is a redesign of my portfolio site. I’ve done more complicated and content-y ones before, so I thought something much simpler would be a nice switch. Refreshingly free of boxy tables or other unnecessary HTML markups, and using the fabulous Lightbox scripting for displaying images.

Yes, I am trying to resurrect the courier font from the late nineties.

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Written by † Jay
Posted on 15 January 2008 at 12:00 pm
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