I was cleaning up my compy & migrating stuff to Dropbox when I came across this. It's over 6 years old, and was part of a flash site I cooked up really early on.
I thought it'd be fun to invite you all to rebound this with the oldest piece of design you can find on your computers... GO!
This was a blogging experiment I had back in the day... trying to turn $14 into $1000. A total failure in that respect, but it did get me hooked on conjuring up web projects.
This was one of my first live websites back in 2000. Jeez 10 years ago!!! I did the whole thing, Photoshop Flash and HTML. I have no idea why, but it is still live. You can go view it in all it's table glory.
I was still quite a web design noob back in high school. This is a "design" of my personal site. I didn't know that it wasn't good practice to use a splash page AND set the window to a specific size. Also, is it too pink? LOL
Oh, and here's the artwork I started my business with in 2005. I couldn't think of a company name, so I went with the "Howard Roark, Architect" approach.
One of my very first web sites. Thought using a pay phone on my contact page would be ironic. About as good of an idea as calling myself In Front Designs.
The first, oldest thing I could find on my computer was for my wedding. Couldn't find the .psd or .pages (yup, mostly made in iWork) . . . so a photo will have to do . . .
This was a joint project from my last year of technical illustration at college, 1990. (I did the engine and fuselage, my friend did the wings and tail). Drawn in pencil using elipse guides and a perspective grid. Then traced in ink with good old rotring pens on clear film. Wonder if anyone is still doing that now, it seems like a lifetime ago?
This was my first comic ever published (for the school newspaper). The OJ Simpson portrait should give you a pretty good idea of when this gem was drawn.
This will be my last contribution to the old skool design thread started by Trent. This piece was inked, scanned and colored in 1997.
This dude was a time cop just strolling down the street (note the swank insignia on his shoulder) - I never did finish the building for some reason.
I later transferred it to clay and meticulously carved this scene into the slab (took me about 2.5 weeks), fired it up and now it sits in the basement at my inlaws. It weights about 8-10 pounds.
Wow, to participate on this I will need to look on my WINDOWS computer... ya, I mean I have to go the whole way back before I was a convert to the Cult of Mac :)
Here's what I dug up: an illustration I inked around the age of 15 of 2D from Gorillaz. There's a little Jamie Hewlett in just about everything I made as a teenager. (Except the websites. Those were mostly Cameron, haha.)
This is what I was working on in 1999: a full-Flash, totally original, cutting edge, cinematic EXPERIENCE of a website for this visionary web design agency I worked for... that no longer exists. Check the circuitry, son. THE MATRIX HAS YOU.
And yes, the UI was so avant-garde and daringly experimental that it needed instructions so all you morons could "use" it. You're welcome.
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Trent Walton
I was cleaning up my compy & migrating stuff to Dropbox when I came across this. It's over 6 years old, and was part of a flash site I cooked up really early on.
I thought it'd be fun to invite you all to rebound this with the oldest piece of design you can find on your computers... GO!
over 1 year ago
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Brad Colbow
This is going to be awesome.
over 1 year ago
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14bucks Header
by Matt Everson
This was a blogging experiment I had back in the day... trying to turn $14 into $1000. A total failure in that respect, but it did get me hooked on conjuring up web projects.
over 1 year ago
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What I Was Working On
by Aaron Scamihorn | RONLEWHORN
Started this for a class project in digital Illustration back in 2004. Great Idea for a thread!
over 1 year ago
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Dave Rupert
"... and Aaron Scamihorn takes a commanding lead!"
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over 1 year ago
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What was I thinking...
by Yaron Schoen
This was one of my first live websites back in 2000. Jeez 10 years ago!!! I did the whole thing, Photoshop Flash and HTML. I have no idea why, but it is still live. You can go view it in all it's table glory.
My god Trent, what have you done to me! How embarrassing
over 1 year ago
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Birds Bottles & Bang
by David Vosburg
I went through a collage phase in college that might suggest I was on something... Thanks for this awesome idea of digging up old crap!
over 1 year ago
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Back In High School...
by Corinne Ducusin
I was still quite a web design noob back in high school. This is a "design" of my personal site. I didn't know that it wasn't good practice to use a splash page AND set the window to a specific size. Also, is it too pink? LOL
over 1 year ago
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say anything collage
by Chad Hietala
I think this is about 5-6 years old. I used to do these realistic collages all the time while I was in college studying...finance =\. LOL.
over 1 year ago
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Original Identity
by Matt Everson
Oh, and here's the artwork I started my business with in 2005. I couldn't think of a company name, so I went with the "Howard Roark, Architect" approach.
over 1 year ago
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Personal branding circa 2001
by Kyle Sollenberger
just pulled this one out of the closet.
over 1 year ago
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Dragon Story '98
by Erik Sagen
Oh. Boy. This thing is just about 12 years old now.
over 1 year ago
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Trent Walton
I'm loving these... @Erik Sagen: Is that Trogdor? :)
over 1 year ago
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contact us
by Nate Kadlac
One of my very first web sites. Thought using a pay phone on my contact page would be ironic. About as good of an idea as calling myself In Front Designs.
over 1 year ago
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Invitations on a Budget
by Andrew Austin
The first, oldest thing I could find on my computer was for my wedding. Couldn't find the .psd or .pages (yup, mostly made in iWork) . . . so a photo will have to do . . .
over 1 year ago
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Salt Flats
by Reagan Ray
I did this my junior year of high school in 1996. It was done using prisma colored pencils on (I think) bristol board.
I have no idea where the original is. This is a a scan of the original slide my art teacher made for my portfolio.
over 1 year ago
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Hurricane
by Tim Print
This was a joint project from my last year of technical illustration at college, 1990. (I did the engine and fuselage, my friend did the wings and tail). Drawn in pencil using elipse guides and a perspective grid. Then traced in ink with good old rotring pens on clear film. Wonder if anyone is still doing that now, it seems like a lifetime ago?
over 1 year ago
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Old Comic
by Brad Colbow
This was my first comic ever published (for the school newspaper). The OJ Simpson portrait should give you a pretty good idea of when this gem was drawn.
over 1 year ago
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Alien-Z
by Erik Sagen
This will be my last contribution to the old skool design thread started by Trent. This piece was inked, scanned and colored in 1997.
This dude was a time cop just strolling down the street (note the swank insignia on his shoulder) - I never did finish the building for some reason.
I later transferred it to clay and meticulously carved this scene into the slab (took me about 2.5 weeks), fired it up and now it sits in the basement at my inlaws. It weights about 8-10 pounds.
over 1 year ago
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Alex Patrascu
Oh boy. Now I really have to connect my HDDs from ages ago!
over 1 year ago
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Clutch Wallpaper
by Brad Colbow
I was a little inspired by 2advanced studios back in 2003. Why I thought this treatment would be appropriate for their clutches I have no idea.
over 1 year ago
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Sam Wilson
@Brad ah that takes me back
over 1 year ago
Wow, to participate on this I will need to look on my WINDOWS computer... ya, I mean I have to go the whole way back before I was a convert to the Cult of Mac :)
over 1 year ago
Rebound
Re-Hash
by Allison House!
Here's what I dug up: an illustration I inked around the age of 15 of 2D from Gorillaz. There's a little Jamie Hewlett in just about everything I made as a teenager. (Except the websites. Those were mostly Cameron, haha.)
over 1 year ago
Rebound
'Sup, 1999?
by Jared Christensen
This is what I was working on in 1999: a full-Flash, totally original, cutting edge, cinematic EXPERIENCE of a website for this visionary web design agency I worked for... that no longer exists. Check the circuitry, son. THE MATRIX HAS YOU.
And yes, the UI was so avant-garde and daringly experimental that it needed instructions so all you morons could "use" it. You're welcome.
over 1 year ago