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Waferbaby: Pure

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Pure by Waferbaby

 

The tale of the tape

Waferbaby

Daniel Bogan (aka Waferbaby) is a Sydney, Australia-based coffee-drinking web geek who pretends to have design acumen.

This former Sydney Boys High School boy works as a software developer and technical writer/editor, but spends a decent chunk of his time maintaining waferbaby.com, a 9-year-old web site he created. The site features content by about 4,000 members.

What the judges said

BG : This design was brought to you by the letters u, r, e, p, and the number infinity.

GH : It’s organic typography.

BG : It looks like it was run through a wood chipper.

GH : I’m reading things like cartoon characters into the primary blob. Ears. Eyes. Paws. Was that the intent?

DN : It’s so creative I can’t even tell what the elements are anymore.

BB : I like it. But it has to be penalized for the absence of some of the products.

BG : Most of the products, in fact. But his intentions seem, well, pure.

DN : How does this represent pure? Because it has some white space?

BB : Pure = organic = growth?

BG : Repeating the words ‘pure’ and ‘purity’ over and over in a zillion layers turns the concept into a mantra. In that way, this is a visual meditation on pure, singular thought. Anyone buying that? Hello?

GH : A zillion layers of pure, singular thought... That makes for a most fascinating oxymoron.

DN : Is it about humankind’s distillation of the diversity of nature into something organized and predictable?

GH : Perhaps, but the design is condensed and minimal to the point of obscuring the point.

BB : It’s hard to read but the intrigue is there.