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Our friend, and former 37signals-founder, Carlos Segura has redesigned Cartype: “A museum of automobile typography”. Very nice redesign (here’s the old site for comparison).
But it’s really so much more than that. Take his museum of gauge clusters:
Or his obsessive collection of brand emblems:
If you dig cars, you really outta check out the new Cartype.
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15 comments so far
Mike 24 Jun 08
I think he’s having some serious problems with the CSS , all I see is a list of images and Time New Roman text, all left justified.
alessandro chinazzo 24 Jun 08
Nice redesign, I was curious about how it looked on IE6 , since I have built a menu like the one in cartype.com, and it breaks just like mine does lol. No fix for the “strange width” bug in IE6
bye
Greg 24 Jun 08
Surely once you’re a founder that’s it, you’re one forever?
Seems to be just a regurgitation of press releases and analysis of the cars themselves rather than comment/critique on any aspect of their design and branding, which would be interesting to read.
JF 24 Jun 08
Conspiracy theory and accusatory comments have been deleted and will continue to be deleted. We post things here on SvN because we want to post them. End of story.
Some Guy 24 Jun 08
I’ll reformulate the question:
What is that you like about the new Cartype site design?
Are you looking for a style redesign like this? If the answer is no, Why not?
I believe this is what the previous 3 (out of 6) comments you banned were questioning.
Regards.
Mike 24 Jun 08
Did this guy test the site in IE6 ? The CSS isn’t coming thru at all, so it looks completely messed up.
JF 24 Jun 08
SomeGuy: I like cars. I like the site. I like the redesign. I like Carlos and I think his obvious passion for cars is fun to observe. I posted about it. It’s that simple. End of story.
This post isn’t a referendum on web design or who we want to hire or what we look for in a designer or anything along those lines. That is entirely off-topic and any other mentions of it will be deleted.
GeeIWonder 24 Jun 08
A museum of automobile typography
What a wicked idea.
Matt Radel 24 Jun 08
I really like the redesign. It’s a swell concept too – automotive typography is prolly a helluva lot more diverse than any of us realize.
MK 24 Jun 08
Since he didn’t bother to test in IE6 (the site’s CSS is trashed), not sure I would hold this up as a stellar redesign. At least his old site works.
Jamie Tibbetts 24 Jun 08
The site was of course tested in IE6 , but a recent change to the stylesheet from a static version to a dynamic, PHP -generated version is causing IE6 to randomly fail to load the stylesheet.
GeeIWonder 24 Jun 08
He could just say he doesn’t support IE6 . As mentioned on this site (and applauded, even called for from 37s, by many!) IE6 support is waning in many corners these days.
Jamie Tibbetts 24 Jun 08
He could just say he doesn’t support IE6 . As mentioned on this site (and applauded, even called for from 37s, by many!) IE6 support is waning in many corners these days.
If only it were yet possible to ignore IE6 , we’d all be much happier developers, but unfortunately, 25% of Cartype’s users are still using IE 6 . :\
Don Schenck 25 Jun 08
Speaking of cars, I’m strongly considering a new MINI Cooper.
Keith 25 Jun 08
Neat concept. Not quite an autoblog a la jalopnik. Fills a cool niche for car design freaks like myself. The firebird hood decal retrospective was pretty awesome.
As for the design of the site. Eh. I like the incremental improvements from his original design, but I think the content carries the thing into the land of cool on its own.
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