To celebrate – if that’s the right word, hopefully it will be – the beta release of IE9…
One of my favourite designers, Brooklyn’s Jason Santa Maria helped put together a pretty little thing called Lost Worlds’ Fairs, celebrating the latest web-design technologies and giving us all a whiff of WOFF.
Jason Santa Maria worked along side other super-talented folk such as Frank Chimero, Naz Hamid, Trent Walton and Dave Rupert in bringing together 3 designs based around typography, as well as the latest in CSS3, JavaScript and HTML5.
In his own words:
We decided to make designs around a grand series of events, the World’s Fairs. We initially started playing with ideas for the cities we all lived in, but ended up going with locales and fairs that never were. We wanted to feel unrestricted by the design and history that already existed from specific fairs and instead find ways to key in on design aspects of a particular time period.
Despite the design and development clearly being orientated for Mac viewers (not their fault, type rendering on Macs is usually 100% better than on PC browsers) the results are some of the most impressive non-Flash, non-Javascript heavy few pages I’ve ever seen on the web. Super ace stuff.
Nice dude. Nice.