Looking at things differently…

I found this website the other day. It’s called web.without.words. It’s awesome.

Below is the rendering of a certain famous website in their own style. Can you guess what it is? Click through for the answer…

It’s a simple enough concept. The web without words. Just blocks. It makes you look at something you possibly look at every day from a different stand-point.  And that’s generally a good thing.

In this example, it might be more geeky fascination than anything wholly practical, but hey, at least I can easily now identify that this site has five images on the page. Probably not something that would stand out on the final design. And if I was looking for entrants for the world’s best website that specifically features only five images on the front page, I’d certainly be in a better place than I was this morning.

Day to day we look for different ways to approach projects, and it always helps to look at things from a different angle. In the same way it helps highlight the elements that didn’t seem obvious before. And that can lead to new things, interesting things, and even great things. And all you’ve got to do is wonder what would happen if, instead of waiting at bus-stops, people descended onto buses from the first floors of office buildings. Or why we don’t just go chew caramels instead of ‘grabbing a coffee’. Or how things would pan out, if politicians were just straight forward and honest.

Look at things differently, you never know where it will get you.

Brought into the world on Thursday, August 19th, 2010 and filed under 1000thoughts, Creative.