Pos-Impressionism Design
A couple of years ago, when I was giving my first toddler steps in web design I remember visiting various sites to use as references when making new designs, and what I found were usually complicated schemes of tables with background images in order to try to create “round” shapes for websites.
I remember drooling upon curved image menus that made it look like the options were inside the side of a tire or something else.
The impression I had was that designer sites had curved layouts with fancy image editing and corporate sites were (and still are) mostly “square”. However, most of the modern web design company websites I visit nowadays are also following the lead of the more corporate ones.
So, on one side, we are leaving “table layouts” and evolving to layer based ones which give us more freedom to do what we want. But on the other hand, I see less and less of the former “round” designs I used to and most people adopt the columns design.
Who knows, perhaps we are entering a “Pos-Impressionism Era” in web design and entering a new, more sensible one, or perhaps it’s a common pattern of human evolution.
