Jean Helfenstein

Jean Halfenstein is a multimedia artist who has worked on a number of different projects for TVG; The Visionaire Group, which does promotions for several different companies. Just looking at the designs you could recognize Halfenstein to be a fantastic designer, a keen sense of style and excellent use of white space on the page. But the page itself is equally marvelous, with large background images and motion that feels like it belongs in a flash site, it's a site that you should really check out. You will be shocked by the size of the images on the site that seem to run functionally and with no flaw short of a load screen which, due to its nature, isn't such a bad touch.

Each page on the site has a separate design quality and background, and the clean web 2.0 look used by the navigation is incredibly deceptive. Each page brought up will redo the way the page interacts with the navigation, using the navigation as a single element for which the juxtaposition of all images hinges. The sleek lines and minimalist shading gives the pages a revamped look, and moving gifs set into a slider make for intriguing opening pages. The simple but not basic black white and blue color scheme leaves little to be desired in the face of images that dwarf everything on the page in size, and really gives the site a gallery feel which one rarely receives from looking at an internet archive of any kind.

If you do check out Helfenstein's site, and I recommend it, be sure to look at the body of work as well. It isn't just the interface alone that influenced the wow factor of these brilliantly designed pages.