28 Jul 2007 0726H

Monocle

I’ve just twigged to this newish magazine, Monocle, through a series of videos on city design at the International Herald Tribune, one of my favorite designed readings on the net.

Look at this gorgeous modernism that does not use sans serif type for its headers. It’s simply beautiful. I can even forgive the black background because it simply would not work as well if it were in white. Of course, this is taking the design out of its context. You can only see this layout in this form if you were to cut and paste four layouts together; the actual use of the site is more piecemeal, but still striking. As for findability and usability, those are separate things. I’m just reacting, not testing here.

Monocle layout

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