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Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art?
Hey all.
I was just wondering if there's a site out there that's like hn but dedicated to art and design instead of tech and science. I saw a few things here about design and typography, but it's mostly tech and science.
- greengirl512 17y agoI couldn't find one. If there's not a site like that out there already, there really should be!
- pufuwozu 17y agohttp://undrln.com/ http://undrln.com/ is advertising, marketing and design.
- oldgregg 17y agoWhat does it say that HN has much better design than this site?
- noaharc 17y agoOut of curiosity, what are the differences which make you say that?
- oldgregg 17y agoToo much white space, not scannable, poor font color/contrast, no indication of what is a link until you hover over it... ...nothing that couldn't be rectified in about 10 minutes of CSS dabbling.
- vaksel 17y agogo there with javascript disabled, they are using radio buttons and a submit button to vote up/down
- timoni 17y agoI'm still confused. unrdln and ycombinator both have black links, but at least unrdln has an underline onhover. And Hacker News has lower contrast in general and poor line spacing.
- jtillery 17y agoPretty cool idea.I would totally be interested in that.
- aseclear 17y agoNot really a community voting site, but http://woostercollective.com/ http://woostercollective.com/ showcases some pretty interesting stuff from around the world.
- yan 17y agowooster collective is mostly about street art iirc. I like and follow: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/ http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/, http://illusion.scene360.com/ http://illusion.scene360.com/
- jay_kyburz 17y agohttp://www.notcot.org/ http://www.notcot.org/
- BjornW 17y agoWhat about rhizome.org? I'll admit that I only visit it perhaps once a month, but it if you like art perhaps rhizome is something to check out? Oh, as far as I know its more a blog than a community, so not exactly like HN.
- albion 17y agohttp://ffffound.com/ http://ffffound.com/ is pretty good
- yan 17y agoSpeaking of ffffound, does anyone know how to get invites?
- zimbabwe 17y agoIf you're looking for design, ilovetypography and SmashingMag. If you're looking for "general art", you're dealing with an incredibly tough subject, because each specific field of art requires just as much focus as the field of computer programming. There are few similarities in technique between composing and popular songwriting and rap, for instance, in the field of music alone. Oil painting and photography and sculpting and weaving are all drastically different. So the only depth you could get on a general art site would be something like "Look at such-and-such pretty thing," unless it was very cleverly designed to allow for more in-depth conversation. Then you'd have to convince those sorts of people to use the site, and some varieties of artists almost routinely avoid the Internet. Hacker News works because programming is very online-intensive as-is. Art isn't. Making the transition is very hard. I should know: I've made three attempts thus far.
- quizbiz 17y agoStart one at slinkset.com
- kailoa 17y agoDustin Curtis recommended me 3 sites on twitter the other day: http://www.alistapart.com/ http://www.alistapart.com/ Articles and reference http://creattica.com/ http://creattica.com/ Social voting on CSS, logos, biz cards etc. http://typophile.com/ http://typophile.com/ Mostly discussion as far as I can tell. Creattica is by far my favorite for just browsing. ALA is popular destination for anyone involved in web design.
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