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Va..Va..VIRB!
| 3.17.2007
If you know myspace, Facebook, Flikr, blogger, del.icio.us and YouTube, than you'll instantly get VIRB - a beautifully designed social gathering destination. Far too often, social destinations think they're designers or don't put enough value on really elegant UI. Sometimes they don't have to (example: myspace.com) but it's rare to see a really clean and intuitive site that can house so much information nested in a visually emotive design. There was a quote in the news the other day (thanks JPG) that conventional newspapers are dying on the vein and magazines like Surface are the next generation "newspapers" - a beautifully laid out magazine that I was turned on to by my sister, which covers news, culture, travel, photography, music, lifestyle and art. VIRB is going to remind me a lot of that magazine once the launch some of their other features including writing, comedy, art, etc.
What I liked most about Boston-based VIRB besides a beautiful gray color palette was the 1024 dimensions, rounded corners, custom video and audio controls, typeology and use of widescreen features. If you look relatively closely, you can see some tricks they borrowed from Flickr, YouTube and others. Almost nothing is new in design..it's how you assemble…it doesn't get much better than this.
For all you designers, UIs, IAs, CDs, ACDs, ADs and AHs, you can all be inspired by looking, reading or listening to anything on this site. The type of site that everyone wishes they helped build. Great design meets great content is VIRB. Lets see what happens next.
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