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Creative Review, May 2010 cover.
As you’d expect some comments are positive, others slightly less (you can easily filter out print work), but overall it looks like the site made a positive impact!
Process Journal 1 cover
Kleber is featured in the 1st issue — alongside the likes of Spin, Cartlidge Levene, Unit Editions and more.
At the moment the magazine seems to be only available in shops Down Under, but the rest of us can order Process Journal online.
You can read this and more, in the interview I did for siteInspire, where I talk about the recent work we did for DixonBaxi, Kleber, and working for the music industry.
Today we launched a brand new design for the Kleber site, the first major site refresh in over 8 years — that is a long time in web years.
Its not like we didn’t try before, but you know what they say: you’re your own worst client! I think we started considering a redesign back in 2003 or 2004, but we didn’t really come up with anything we liked immediately — and the site was actually fine as it was. So we left it there. This scenario would repeat itself a few times over the years, and each time we went “ah, if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”. And we were too busy with client projects to spend any real time on developing something new. The only thing we added was a much needed RSS feed.
Around this time last year, we started to get itchy again and vowed to make some real progress and redesign the site. After a few false starts of over complex designs including sliding timelines and such we latched onto the concept of a flat, unfolded box as the container for our content, and we got to the stage of having a working demo and even ported content over from the old site.
All systems go it seemed. But as client projects again demanded our attention the new design was left gathering dust, and with the months going by we realized that we had strayed a bit too far, losing the simplicity that has been a trademark of Kleber.
So last week Chris finally took the ideas from the last redesign, fine-tuned them and at long last we now have a brand new site. There’s a few small things that we’ll add (like rotating colour schemes), but the emperor is wearing his new clothes!
Maybe now is a good time to revisit the business cards…
This month’s issue of Computer Arts has a double amount of Kleber goodness for you. First there’s me saying things like —
“It’s going to be pretty much required from all agencies that content has to work on everything.”
— in an round-table discussion on new puritanism in (online) advertising, while a few pages down our own Ben Wise shows you some nifty CSS and JQuery tricks to spruce up your site.
In Computer Arts 160 (out now) the Brief Encounter section has an extensive feature on how Kleber designed and developed the global news site for rock demi-gods AC/DC. Rock on!
Just in time for Christmas: Kleber delivers a brand new site for English singstress Lily Allen.
We (Kleber) have been nominated 2 two awards at this year’s BT Digital Music Awards — for Kylie and Roots Manuva.
Of course, you can help us win by going to the Awards site and vote in the pop and urban artist categories, so we can get that glorious congratulatory email.