Website: San Francisco Design Week

June 28, 20090 Comments Tagged: design, design week, red, san francisco, scribble, Website

San Francisco Design week (sponsored by the San Francisco AIGA, AIASF, IDSASF and IXDA) was on recently, and in my travels I came across their quite eye-catching site.

On arrival you are met by a startling scarlet tinted image of a San Francisco street. An image of an iconic San Fran Tram is sketched out in white script text of words like "culture" and "style". The event's logo is designed in a similar fashion sitting in pride of place in the top right. It is a fantastic image, nicely designed. Sadly, that is where the good things end.

The second thing that catches my eye after the scarlet image is the fact that to the right of the image you are left simply with the default browser background, rather than something that is designed specifically to match. And this brought my attention to a rather alarming fact. The entire site is written in tables. Welcome to the 90's

Now I don't want to be too much of a standardista, but I thought we had left this thing behind. It is so unfortunate that an event such as this, purporting to be "highlighting the diversity and professionalism of the design community around the bay" is showing such a poor example of web design. It clearly hurts the credibility of the event, and sets a very poor example.