Kubrick Killers
I will be honest, when I saw that the first style someone submitted to The Style Contest was a port of the Kubrick style, I rolled my eyes. If there is one thing the world needs less of are blogs that employ that style. The Kubrick style is just sooo 2004 with its disproportionately sized header, abuse of the color blue, and its oh-so-trendy rounded corners. What we need are some new styles. Styles that have the same universal appeal that Kubrick had when it first came out, but are fresh, exciting and will give the blog owner a sense of pride.
Well, two days ago The Style Contest accepted its last submission for entry into the contest. Over the course of nine weeks 147 styles were submitted, and if you browse through them, guess what you will find?
Awesome styles. Styles that exemplify, the way the CSS Zen Garden does, not only great design, but the power of a standard HTML template. And you know what else you will find?
Styles that, god willing, will fill the blogosphere with styles that have some life in them. Here are some of my favorites designs; they are among my favorites because I feel they have the potential to appeal to the greatest number of people, they have a nice aesthetic, and they are professionally done, but also because I feel they break the mold a bit, and push the envelope of design just a hair.
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Style Name: Soleil Designer: Carrie Petri |
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Style Name: Fleur Designer: Jennifer Maloney |
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Style Name: Shlyapa Designer: Dobryakov Alexander |
And my personal favorite (which you can see on my LiveJournal as well)…
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Style Name: Red Curve Designer: Bryan Buchs |
I am curious, what are your favorites styles?
11 Comments
No offense, but I think I like Kubrick better than the look of ProNet. Seriously.
I like the Red Curve design as well.
There seems to be a lot of rounded corners and blue on the Pro Net/MT site to be knocking Kubrick around too much - I'd ditto Tom's comments.
I'm not much for Kubrick either, but that's because I've seen it in so many places and it gets old looking at the same over and over and over again.
That said there are many of the designs I can see myself using once the new version comes out and we can pull the new styles with Stylecatcher. Will they be updated to work with the introduced tags in MT 3.3?
One of my absolute favorites are Palette, but also Exhibit, Pro Writer, Soleil, Star Crash and Oriental Dream.
So nice to see not only the boxed and bordered CSS styles which seems to have been the mainstream for awhile.
I think Byrne was just poking a little fun, we're happy about all of the designs in the contest, and I think lots of them were inspired by the creative work out there like Kubrick that becomes extremely popular.
(Or did you guys not notice that this post was published on a page with a blue header and trendy rounded corners?)
I did Anil :D
But I still think Kubrick is a bit overrated for my personal taste. As for the blue, not my personal favorite either, but then it is one of those colors which I have a hard time working with when playing with templates and graphics in general. Like something fresh and funky and not all business like.
Hmm, well I guess I am happily stuck in 2004 because I love everything about Kubrick and always will. I was using it long before the Style Contest's port of it, though it appears the code of the new version is a bit neater ;)
P.S. I sense some irony here too in that the design for the Style Contest main page itself looks very Kubrick-like...
As the designer of the site, I think I'll take that as a compliment!
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Styles that, god willing, will fill the blogosphere with styles that have some life in them. Here are some of my favorites designs
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