I could gripe…

I could gripe about the usability of this site, but it’s charming in its way. It makes every possible design mistake but gives off a light, naive, fun vibe.

(Warning: Loud intro music.)

Hat tip to Swiss Miss minimalissimo via Twitter.

Update (8 Feb 2010)

New Zealand twitterer infodesignr points to this site as another example of undesign (my term). IMO, it projects straightforward honesty lacks the joyfulness of Yvette’s Bridal Formal. I’m not being ironic. Still, given the content, you’d expect something mid-20-century-style Swiss School modernist, wouldn’t you?

Feel free to hunt me down and kill me for saying this, but isn’t there a slight, second-cousinly resemblance between Yvette’s and this site by the Swedish type designer Andreas Pihström?

Christopher Burd is a business analyst, writer, and information designer based in Victoria, British Columbia. His website is www.catchword.ca. You can follow him on Twitter.

www.catchword.ca

My new site is up. It’s absorbed most of my online efforts over the past few weeks; so I expect to resume blogging soon.

If you’re interested in the design, see my comments here. Short version: After giving a presentation on Swiss modernist typography and the web, I really had no choice but to redesign.

Update (6 Feb): I’ve fixed the link in the second paragraph. My apologies.