Quarketing

Interesting attempt by Quark at a community site: ilovedesign.com

It massively misses the mark from a digital marketing perspective. It’s too obviously and painfully salesy, rather than building on the community aspect first. Designers are a tight-knit community. Unless they’re already rabidly pro-Quark, this will just naff them off.

Clean design though, and the portfolio will be great once it has a few more uploaders.

What is scary is David Carson’s desktop. Good grief, if that’s true, I bet he doesn’t have a clear desk policy.

Pretty website

This is a pretty website design, not great SEO but you can’t have everything. I’m not a big fan of moving graphics or excessive Flash, but this is strangely relaxing. (Text is too small though.)

I see hundreds of design companies websites and, although they are often passable, it’s rare that they are beautiful. Weird.

And no, our website isn’t beautiful, but it works and we’re not showcasing our design abilities.