This is a relatively different type of site I'm looking at this week. An organized compilation of images, not unlike a board or facebook style community space for images. Bigggest difference is, they're a journal of sorts too. The folks that run this site actually lists the popular searches in a fashion not unlike looking at headlines. A group of designers and artists displaying their art. It has its own shop portion of the page, organizing user submitted designs to be bought online.
It may not be much at first. At first walking onto the page was a boring experience, I recognized too many reused ideas that half a million people already do for their sites. I mean proportionally they were so reserved I almost looked past this site altogether. Then I noticed the little 'community' tag in the top right corner, and decided to take a look. What I was hit by, and so will you if you visit the site, will be loads of content. In true social networking status you can comment, post and link among artists in the community, and the design for this page, while not much better shows a fluid nature most sites abandon with their front page. And the ability to buy prints directly off the site is really neat, and shows that they store images in relatively high format.
Right now my general critique of the page is to spite its unassuming layout and its lack of user content for what could be a fantastic site. Obviously it takes time for these things to get started, and the competition is fierce, but these guys have most of the functions a well designed site should have. The ecclectic nature of their viral posters is no limitation to each artist's prestige, and while the majority of the designers clearly use the site for financial purposes, It seems a worthwhile investment of time to look through its pages.
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