Back in 1999, we began working on a new theme for our website. We were obsessed with the color orange, so I decided to channel my love for vintage fruit crate labels as the next phase in our brand identity evolution.
This was also our first fully Flash-built site, packed with animations and interactions. Unfortunately, recreating it is tricky since Flash was discontinued around 2003, and the site was pulling data from remote files. I’m not sure I can ever reconstruct that setup, and I don’t think anyone recorded it.
I’ll share more when I dig up additional internal pages. It took months to build, so there’s still time to document it as part of our 25-year retrospective!
Right now, the closest thing that I’ve used to make animations that work natively in modern browsers (HTML5) is Spine. I think one could recreate most or all of that website using spine.
I do remember most of the sites. I made a few little mini games for you back then, and I was just on this site be cause I’m teaching social studies and talking about Constantinople right now (Not Istanbul), and I thought it would be fun to show the artist kids in the class what your designs were like.
Apple picking—yes, I have done that. Orange picking? Not so much. Brand evangelism for the win! }:3o
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