The follow-up to our popular title Web Design: Best Studios, this new installments brings you more examples of the web's most outstanding design work. Working online means working from every place you can imagine. The coolest design studios from over 28 countries are profiled herein, complete with examples of recent work, contact information, list of awards, and client list. If you are a web designer, marketing manager or your work has anything to do with the web, this book is a must-have reference for your daily work.
'Taschen is an art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. It began as Taschen Comics publishing Benedikt's extensive comic collection. Taschen has been a noteworthy force in making lesser-seen art available to mainstream bookstores, including some fetishistic imagery, queer art, historical erotica, pornography and adult magazines (including multiple books with Playboy magazine). Taschen has helped bring this art into broader public view, by publishing these potentially controversial volumes alongside its more mainstream books of comics reprints, art photography, painting, design, fashion, advertising history, film, and architecture.' - Wikipedia
This book is a time capsule! It shows both where design trends started, but also serves as a reminder that we should be creative, unique, and bold in this world of templates and copycats. A lot of the design studios shown in this book seem to no longer exist, or they’ve completely pivoted into NFT art. Which to me, just shows how people really used web design to express themselves in the 2000’s, which feels quite different from what the industry has become.