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links to sites i like
plus site pages that didn't fit anywhere else
Here, you'll find sites that I liked, whether from Neocities or not, if it's nostalgic, cozy, has cool art, etc. you get the deal.
Contact
- NeoCities Profile
- Mastodon
- Revolt: @Solinus#7239
- Discord: solinus0474
Design Sites
Designers and Artists
MondySpartan: Classic Y2K/Frutiger Aero UI designs and mockups.
Syndromatic: Full-on Classic iOS design.
Nitzukai (Tumblr) (Deviantart, less posts): Frutiger Aero artists with a modern neumorphic twist
ghost.snacks: Y2K-Frutiger Aero inspired designs, mostly backgrounds/wallpapers.
sonnie thoughts: Relaxing, minimalist, natural yet techy renderings, often looking up at the sky or in the plains.
Kyle Halevi: UI designer that uses mostly subtle depth and texture.
Dmitry Novikov: App icon and UI designer in the same realm as Kyle Halevi.
Pixelresort: App icon designer with a wide range of styles, from borderline (but still nice looking) flat, to icons so detailed they're full on artwork.
jack/hunktwink123: UI designer that specialises in that neo-classic modern-ish look with the italicized serif fonts plus the neumorphism.
Z2r/Liam: Designer that dabbles in a little bit of everything, from motion graphics to 3D to good old aero. Apparently also the 3rd Liam I know.
Indiana Popovich: Specializing in early 20th century styled graphic design. Also was behind the popular "NFTs Fucking Suck" meme.
Archives
Web Design Museum: A museum for historic web and app design from 1990s to the mid 00s.
Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute: An insitute focused on popular visual styles in graphic design from 1950-now.
AIGA Design Archives: Graphic design archive that you can browse by color, year, industry, etc. Covers 1924-2017
Cooper Hewitt: Museum dedicated for all types of design, from graphic design to architecture.
Design Resources
Clipart ETC: Free antique style illustrations. Not sure why the images aren't public domain since most images there date from the late 19th early 20th century...
SVGmix: Fully free logos and icons in SVG.
Smashing Magazine: A publication centered around UI and web design.
Method.ac: Games that teach you about graphic design.
User Inyerface: A game poking fun of bad UI.
Engineering, Technology, Art
Engineering and Technology
eirik brandal: Dynamic electronic sculptures.
danieldebruin: Don't really know a good description but trust me there's cool projects there. Let's just say that it gets a bit on the artsy sculture type.
karakurist: Japanese mechanical (karakuri) artist.
Mitxela: Projects and inventions by Tim Alex Jacobs
Animagraffs: Interactive 3D animations of how mechanisms works. (such as watches or cars)
Clocks
Mark Frank's clocks: Collector of mechanical timekeepers that look cool and somethimes make my head hurt.
Nat'l Assocition of Watch and Clock Collectors Forums: Very interesting to read through all the various posts about all sorts of clocks.
Will Matthysen: Maker of bespoke, elegant clocks, minimalist yet natural.
Eric Freitas: Another clockmaker, but his clocks are more reminiscent of fantasy and steampunk.
Timeless Moments: Collector and seller of animated musical clocks
Other Art
Google Arts and Culture: this would be so cool if it weren't owned by a tech monopoly
6VCR: Pixel artist, love their cozier works.
michieldb.nl: Posy's website. (the one who made the video on segmented displays)
Jenny Jinya: Made the well-known "Opponents" comic about life and death.
bill wurtz: you know him. this is what i want personal sites to be: shows off their work, simple, does its job.
Wolfman Museum: An interactive virtual museum of various internet content (sadly inactive).
Pedulla Studio: Australian based custom furniture maker.
Other Sites
Sounds
radio.garden: Listen to radio stations around the world.
Conserve The Sound: A website dedicated to sounds of obsolete technology and antiquated devices.
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive: Archives antique cylinder recordings (typically around 1890 to 1920).
Nostalgia
Skytopia: Very nostalgic, almost reminds me of early childhood.
eXPerience: By Travis, themes Windows 10 into a very convincing XP setup.
Weatherscan: A 2000s style weather channel like website
Everything else
digital wellbeing by omoulo: Article about our relation with the digital world, along with tools for privacy and site blockers.
neal.fun: Creator of the Password Game
McMansion Hell: Cheaply made oversized homes built from the 1990s-2000s.