Visual identity-tranceparty, David Rudnick, 2022

recommended by Victor Verhelst
“I find Rudnick’s work very interesting and closely connected to the culture he is part of. He works from his own inspiration: music.”

Abstract browsing

recommended by Didier Deschrijver
Abstract Browsing is a freely downloadable Chrome extension that transforms any website into a colorful abstract composition. Navigation remains intact: links function as usual, and the extension can be turned on or off at any time. When activated, all web content is reduced to colored rectangles. Text, images, and other elements lose their meaning and remain only as structure. It resembles an X-ray of a building: not the finished surface, but the underlying framework becomes visible. Web pages reveal themselves as assemblies of smaller components, where information is constantly structured and categorized—something we rarely notice. For me, this work exposes the underlying code and structure of the web. What is usually hidden within layout and styling comes to the surface. It sits between two moments: the act of structuring elements in code, and the final visual form as it appears in the browser. Because the results become autonomous works in their own right, Rafael Rozendaal later translated them into physical objects, such as woven paintings. As he notes: “The physicalization (weaving) brings focus. The software is fast and fluid, textile is expensive and slow. It slows me down, it helps me to pause and reflect.”
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Cameron’s World, Cameron Askin

recommended by Didier Deschrijver
The project was created by Cameron Askin and consists of a large, scrollable collage of images, text and sounds sourced from old GeoCities pages (circa 1994–2009). In the 1990s, GeoCities allowed people to create their own homepages, which were often messy, personal, full of GIFs and experimentation. When the service disappeared, millions of pages remained as archive material. Cameron’s World extracts fragments from these and stitches them together into a single navigable environment. The site reconstructs the aesthetics of the early web: flashing GIFs, Comic Sans and bright colours, ‘under construction’ banners, MIDI music That style was normal back then, but has now almost completely disappeared due to standardisation and design systems. The work is not just about nostalgia. It shows an internet before platforms and algorithms There were no templates, no UX rules and therefore a great deal of freedom, little consistency. It is not the content itself that takes centre stage, but the structure and culture of the medium With Rozendaal you see the structure of a page, with Puckey the process of news Here you see the ecosystem of the early web itself.
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