Tim Roussilhe

Hello everyone, it's been almost a year since I last shared with you a fantastic new site on this blog, and I'm pleased to inform you that time is up. About two months ago a friend showed me a poster for Mad Men which I was intrigued by, and I sought out the original creator. Though I never made contact with the graphic artist, I did come across their site, which took me for a breathtaking multimedia experience. As you might have guessed, the designer was Timothy Roussilhe At first I considered it visually minimalist, following a simple three color scheme broken by a single large image that made up for the lack of color on the screen. But the animations that fed from one page of the site to the next demonstrated an understanding of motion attraction that is beyond superb.

It's not every day that I praise a designer's site, especially when competing in the same business myself. But nearly every action taken in that site has a visual, audible, and technically brilliant transition that is at the same time clean, minimal, and down to earth. It's a design that when shared with my colleagues was met with technical intrigue, but almost didn't notice the design itself. It is what I like to call an invisible design. Something so rooted in the basics of design construct that it reads as nothing more than the construct that holds information. Ease of use without being an eyesore, or becoming drab. It was never minimal. Just invisible. For a portfolio site he also uses a wonderful amount of humor in his text, which gives his whole site a certain charm. I strongly suggest taking a look if you aren't familiar with his work.