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Oooh, can you spell "FRESH"?

 #1 Peter Mellander on November 28, 2006

Very nice work here. That piano site is cool.

 #2 Rachielle Smith on November 28, 2006

I had seen some of his work already, it's very impressive he's so young. The piano site he did is a great laugh. I like the layout of his site but only thing that bothers me is the pixelated text. All the text on the site is an image.. not sure if that's a good idea. Am I wrong?

 #3 Sofia Lace on November 28, 2006

#3 - Agreed. I don't think all the images are nessecary. Most, if not all, look pixelated on my screen. None the less, i am very impressed! At 20, this is a wonderful portfolio. So much time and room to grow!

 #4 Jamie Calabro on November 28, 2006

Somehow he has skills in Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash. Good work anyhow.

 #5 Ryan B on December 1, 2006

Eventhough i still don't know what was his job on the ooouch piano masterpiece i really like this portfolio. the one-site-solution together with a lot of love for typography and colors (and that is to me not using system fonts like Arial, Helvetica instead of the Pixeled /FFF-like one for example), a clever and elegant combination of two different fonts and the trendy rainbow color gradient. a young pearl :)

 #6 Jan Weiss on December 4, 2006

Lame. I'm really surprised this site made it up here.

There is no attention to detail in any of it. The graphics look embarassing with horrible JPEG artifacts around everything. This is emphasized by the fact that all of the type is images! That in itself is an accessibility nightmare as well. The only actual text in the entire site is in the title tag of the page that foccaland.com redirects to, but even that title doesn't show up because of the domain redirection.

The page is ridden with spelling mistakes and inconsistencies in layout. There is no consistent type grid and the site is using horribly outdated web technologies (image maps, html frames, etc).

All the while, he is proclaiming himself to be an art director, when the only work that he is credited art directing are cheap looking, unimpresive photoshop illustrations and flash animations. Fooling around in photoshop and posting your results is not art direction.

It's actually hard to determine what he has done on any of the projects. And judging by the disparity between the attention to detail on his site and some things listed on it, it's easy to tell which ones he actually had a good hand in.

The designer being 20 is no excuse for listing this site on StyleBoost -- there should be a lot higher standards than this.

 #7 Scott T on December 6, 2006

the use of typography strongly reminds me of frank borsato's navajowhite... i like the look and feel anyway, and for a young kid aged 20 this is an impressive portfolio. i'm curious what is coming up in the next few years

 #8 Daniel C. Plänkers on December 7, 2006

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