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Website: Field Operations - Landscape Architecture Company by James Corner

http://www.fieldoperations.net/

Homepage

Revolving bars

Classified by categories

Work shown

I like little bars which are revolving and showing their work dynamically. They used limited kinds of colours which looks very clear and modern. I’m not sure whether it’s their intention or not, I feel like something is missing and emptiness in the site, so I get a feeling of coldness, not the warmth. I think introducing of more colours could make this website more ‘welcome’ feeling.

Question a. whether it falls into design and/or art (and why)

I think it does fall into art and design because they arranged their work with little bars by categories which looks simple and clear. They also simplified menus and colours of its site with only green, black and white which provides easy reading of what they’ve done so far. The most interesting and eye-catching part of this site is revolving bars which gives me a feeling of dynamic and energetic. It basically shows their work, studio staffs and introduces what they do. Under the studio and work menu, these bars are classified into chronology, scale, typology, alphabetical order, people, profile and news. For example, if I click alphabetical order, these bars arranged right away.


Question b. how it relates to other art/design forms on the web

Comparing with other sites or personal blogs, this website has some kind of geometrical aspects and feelings in arrangements of its site. They also have a clear looking layout and presentation of their work, so it helps clients and themselves to understand the company’s design intent. Moreover, this site is focused on showing their work, what they are doing and trying to do in the future and I think it has much less commercial stuff on its site than other companies’ sites, so that the main purpose of the website can not be lost by business and money. This actually allows viewer to concentrate the contents of its site, not the garbage stuff.


Question c. how it may reflect in content or style your final project

For my final project, some aspects of this website can be influential. I think the simple arrangement of their work and geometrical layouts have some potential to be part of my project. In fact, I’m still looking for what to do for my project so I can’t tell how much content or style I’m going to use from this site, but I definitely got some great ideas from this exercise.