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Is this to showcase the article style? It reminds me of the snowy thing the New York Times did a few months ago, but with added parallax effects
by NKCSS 12y ago
Is this to showcase the article style? It reminds me of the snowy thing the New York Times did a few months ago, but with added parallax effects
- bgarbiak 12y agoThis form of presentation (a specific layout for a single longform article) got really popular recently. That "snowy thing NYT did" happened a few years ago, if I recall correctly, and indeed, it might be considered the trend starter. Personally, I'm very often impressed by work of theverge.com/polygon.com in this regard. Here's just one example: http://www.polygon.com/a/xbox-one-review http://www.polygon.com/a/xbox-one-review They perfectly handle the toughest thing, which is the balance between flashiness and readability. As for the BBC article: I don't like the font choices they've made. A serif (Georgia or Cambria) for body content and sans-serif for distinctions would work better, IMHO.
- NKCSS 12y agoThank you, that Xbox One article is indeed very awesome.
- mercer 12y agoYeah, and aside from the font I also felt that the transitions were a bit too abrupt, like they just stitched together a bunch of (in themselves pretty) pages. The German newspaper 'Die Zeit' has been experimenting with this style as well, to the point of (as I understand it) starting Zeit Online as a completely separate department in Berlin. For example (in German): http://www.zeit.de/kultur/karl-marx-allee/index.html#prolog http://www.zeit.de/kultur/karl-marx-allee/index.html#prolog http://www.zeit.de/sport/tour-de-france.html http://www.zeit.de/sport/tour-de-france.html Generally they're a little more subdued and their work, so far, is not as technologically impressive. But I might actually prefer that.