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The new Viewbook website is live!

By Rien | February 28th, 2011 | 7 Comments

As of today, the Viewbook.com website is completely renewed. We changed the structure of the site, our color scheme and font, and even changed our logotype slightly. Although there are still some things to add and fine-tune, I hope you like what we’ve created. I think it really represents ‘us’.

Homepage
We see Viewbook as a blank canvas, as a ‘tool’ and ‘space’ that is all about exhibiting visual work. We translated this vision directly in the opening page of our website. A clean, non disturbing presentation of the image. As first on our new homepage; PhotoStory 2010 winner Brandon Schulman. Also on the homepage we present product news, like our iPad Portfolio app that is coming out in April this year. It’s very visual, and I think it sets the right tone for Viewbook: it’s all about ‘the image’.

Tour
The new product tour simply displays our product, using large visuals. On larger screens the visuals scale larger, so people can have a good ‘look’ at our product. There’s more information behind the ‘View features’ and still to finish ‘Watch video’ buttons.

In Use
We added many more examples, and a ‘tag menu’ with which you can browse examples on plan type, discipline and design features. We’ve also added a short text about each example to give it a little more personality. I think we’ve created a rich page that gives both insight in how people apply their design skills and create such variety of websites trough Viewbook.

I’d be happy to hear your reactions in the comments. Also don’t hesitate to send us an email if you’d like your website to appear on the ‘In use’ page.

Ideas Viewbook brother portrait

By Alrik | February 11th, 2011 | No Comments

At the end of last year we asked all Viewbook users to send in an idea for our next founding-brother-portrait. Over the last months we received many ideas from Rome to Berlin, and there were some quite extreme ones in there. Tayo wanted to put us four on the floor, butt-to-butt, in the shape of a roman II, while Peter suggested to merge our four faces into one. Dik, was swamped with assignments and preferred a face-to-face meeting before constructing his idea and Maarten wanted to capture us four, barreled in the Atlantic Ocean during a glassy morning swell. Roberto wanted to hold us underwater in a clear swimming pool and shoot us from the sky.

We were surprised by all these ideas and the many others that came in and would like to thank you all very much. The idea that really caught our attention and got us most excited was the idea that Ilse Leenders e-mailed us. So Ilse got the job and we’re working on a ‘networked’ idea with wires and trees at the moment. The coming month we expect the results, and we’ll show you an extensive making-of when it’s finished.