Open from noon to midnight, and envisioned as a hangout, this self-styled "site of contemporary creation" promises to rekindle some of the tensions between Paris and New York that enlivened 20th-century life.
Kanye West knows artistry or, at least has a lot of opinions on it—so for those of us in art schools, on gallery walls, or toiling away in studios, this Magic 8-Ball-styled site lets Kanye tell you if you're an artist, or if it's time to hang up that paint-caked towel.
In fact, Koutsomitis told me last year that the whole idea behind DatePlay is to eliminate 'self reporting': the tendency to create an online profile as you'd want to be seen rather than how you actually are, typically encouraged by form-filling styled dating sites, such as eHarmony or Match.
The centerpiece of the campaign is a Web site, styled like a food blog, where the critical cat will hold forth on favorite meals — all of them, not surprisingly, featuring Purrfect Bistro products.
The NHS is to establish a patient feedback website, styled after the popular travel site TripAdvisor, to allow patients to post complaints online – including those containing potentially derogatory comments about medical staff – and show hospitals' responses to them in real time.
The mellow Silicon Valley "video-sharing site," once styled as nothing more than a converted loft space for oddball videos, is looking more Hollywood by the minute.
The Ministry, I've already gleaned from its satirical come-with-us-and-drink-the-Kool-Aid-styled Web site, offers a menu of services including "Art Evaluations," "Immersions in Art," "Art Cleansings," "Art Rejuvinations," and "Art Maintenances" at the clinic, as well as everything from art bar mitzvahs to art weddings or safe-sex orgies off site.
It cited challenges to deceptive practices like Web sites that pretend to be news sites and infomercials that are styled like television programs.
However, one quirk is that some sites and articles that are styled like formally written and reviewed research papers are often picked up by the searching algorithms.
During the ensuing digital typographic revolution of the 90's, a slew of designers and illustrators who had never designed an alphabet before flooded Internet sites with bizarrely named, peculiarly styled and sometimes illegible faces.
