{"id":205,"date":"2007-11-04T17:26:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T01:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/artistic-influence-in-web-design\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T19:47:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:47:26","slug":"artistic-influence-in-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/artistic-influence-in-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistic influence in web design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfmoma.org\/\">SF Museum of Modern Art<\/a> this afternoon and I was browsing the exhibit of work by Joseph Cornell. I was looking at a piece and suddenly realized that this looked just like the awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/ff0000.com\">website of Red Interactive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of the Red Interactive website:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/firefoxscreensnapz022.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"firefoxscreensnapz022.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image207\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/firefoxscreensnapz022.thumbnail.jpg?resize=300%2C179&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"firefoxscreensnapz022.jpg\" height=\"179\" width=\"300\" class=\"imageframe\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Joseph Cornell piece:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/firefoxscreensnapz023.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"firefoxscreensnapz023.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image206\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/firefoxscreensnapz023.thumbnail.jpg?resize=300%2C242&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"firefoxscreensnapz023.jpg\" height=\"242\" width=\"300\" class=\"imageframe\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthistory.cc\/auth\/cornell\/cornell.abeilles.jpg\">this particular piece<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthistory.cc\/auth\/cornell\/index.htm\">more of Cornell&#8217;s work<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t know if the website was influenced by the artwork of Cornell or not, but it certainly has that look. And I think this is awesome. I want to be clear that I am not in any way suggesting that this is a bad thing. I&#8217;m not trying to call anyone out, I&#8217;m trying to applaud the creative use of artistic techniques. I think it&#8217;s fantastic to take influences from the art world and incorporate them into the web world. If it&#8217;s just a coincidence I think that&#8217;s awesome too.<\/p>\n<p>How big of a dork am I that when I&#8217;m walking around an art museum I see websites?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was in the SF Museum of Modern Art this afternoon and I was browsing the exhibit of work by Joseph Cornell. I was looking at a piece and suddenly realized that this looked just like the awesome website of Red Interactive. A screenshot of the Red Interactive website: The Joseph Cornell piece: (Check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}