Beach Freaks Don't Like Secrets of Massive Websites, that is Charles Balls' slogan I hear
almost everywhere. I've been a huge fan of his website www.cosmicdudes.com, a website that sells some obscure records with crazy prices! Did not know that he also has a creative side doing movie animation and motion graphics, until my roomate made a song that Charles would like to buy it as a scoring music for one of parasol-island's commercial.
It starts with memorable underwater soundscape, a magnificent mix animation in between under the deepest sea. In the middle there is a tempting full screen mode button which leads your eyes to click on it. On top of the left side I can still see a spark of light shining through. Right under it there is the company's logo, a capital P which reminds me a lot of Portishead's the band logo. I even think it has used the same based typeface with a black bold background but this time they stretched it up and addded a little umbrella to get a tropical feel. To me, mostly graphic design nowadays are always a modification of the past. Originality and authenticity will never be as pure as it can be. It is always a remake of a popular thing in the past. To emulate or to be inspired by a style is a hint of normalcy, but it has to have a twisted new look and a prove of betterment. Fairly loaded, on the way, hold on baby, nearly done, got it those five sign buttons come sequentially adjacent to the logo while its loading.
This site contains portfolio selection of clips from their work, company profile, and perfect organic with a tropical feel of a balearic-beach sounding illustrated animations. On the right side there is a big enjoy the island button that you can't miss it. It is an online experience that caters to those who wanting a visual and audio experience within a perfect scoring sound effects as well as those interested in playing around but not forgotten about finding information about the company's vision. Ahh take me there, I need my holiday!
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