When it comes to website design, minimalist websites are quite popular. I certainly like the clean, uncluttered approach. I recently built a website for some contemporary ceramics makers whose work is inspired by minimalism. In turn, they tuned me in to some classic minimalist art works. I particularly fell for the work of Josef Albers – his “homage to the square“.
So the next time a client asked for minimalist website, I was happy to have the chance to draw on some of my new fondness for minimalism. In the end, for the Veramed website, we largely drew on the colour combination of one of Albers’ sqaure sets – a cool blue, silver and white combination.
And then to humour my own interset, I created a rendition of that square set in code, wondering if I am the first to actually pay “homage to the code” in this way. The graphic you see here then, is not actually and image file (jpg, gif, png etc). It is a combination of HTML and CSS. This pleased me because, not only does it look good, but creating graphics for websites using code instead of actual image files, helps web pages load quicker, which in turn uses less energy, and so has less of an impact on the environment.