Building Community: Featured Experimenters

We’ve been running the experiment for a little while now (a little over two weeks) and as always, we’ve gotten a ton of data. More interesting then that though are the kinds of sites that have started using the theme. Not only do we see a nice sampling of interesting meaningful sites with good content, we’ve also been able to see quite a variety of nice visual modifications. Some of these are simple (changing the header) some of them are also simple (changing the link colors). What’s remarkable is how good most of them look. It isn’t easy to design something that looks nice when it has been customized but it looks like (thanks to all of the data, comments, and crit) we’re on the right track. Here is a slight sampling of the community we’re creating through shared design.

As a corollary to this we’ll be featuring sites from the pool on creativesynthesis on a regular basis. Here goes:

Design Pending
Design pending is a blog (in Swedish) about interaction design and access.

Using the boxview, with the default stylesheet, a custom header and the sidebar right aligned.

New Territories
This site by Christina and Tom Grace helps clients make the best possible decisions throughout the cycle of a project, product, or service.

Using the boxivew, with a custom stylesheet with red links, a custom header and the sidebar right aligned.

This leads to
This leads to is a storytelling experiment conducted by Kyla Esterday to build skills as an artist, therapist and educator. Each weekday a new post is available that observes, educates and reflects. A great exploration of process.

Using the imageview, with the default stylesheet, no header and the sidebar right aligned.

Plagurgitate - a thinktank for pbc students
Plagurgitate is a place for PBC (Portland Bible College) students to share, talk and muse. Everything ‘from prophecy to podcasts’.

Using the boxview, with the dark stylesheet, default header and the sidebar right aligned.

Jungle 8
Jungle 8 is a conscious branding agency. It is a different kind of brand agency, developed with the needs and attitudes of socially conscious businesses in mind. An agency dedicated to conscious branding practices.

Using the boxview, with a custom stylesheet with green links, a custom header and the sidebar right aligned.

Swedish Ministry of Design
A blog for those with an interest in Swedish and international design. Targets fashion, textiles, architecture and furnishings.

Using the blogview, with the default stylesheet, default header and the sidebar right aligned.

Think Youth
ThinkYouth.net is an exciting new community of liberally progressive teens and young adults. If you are young and love writing or making videos about politics, Thinkyouth is looking for authors.

Using the boxview, with the default stylesheet, a custom header and the sidebar left aligned.