Today's favourite search request...
Digging around in my search requests for a laugh, I find this lovely little gem posted in the last few hours:
"Holy shit, for the first time since I have begun visiting this site (about 3 years or so) I noticed that your header image is an actual plastic bag"
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
It took me several months to figure this out as well.
→ Posted by: jkottke at July 11, 2003 5:44 PM
Hmm, never noticed that before either. Now that you point it out though, it looks more like a paper bag to me. (Is paperbag.org taken?)
Several people have thought that my header image is some sort of TV. (It's a Vectrex.)
→ Posted by: Andy Baio at July 11, 2003 6:06 PM
I think a lot of people might be confused about the plastic bag image. Perhaps ditching it in favor of a small white box with a dashed line around it containing a meaningless bit of pixel art would improve matters?
→ Posted by: jkottke at July 11, 2003 6:30 PM
*grins*
Classic! I see they're VERY observant ;)
→ Posted by: Nobody Girl at July 11, 2003 7:06 PM
lol, it took me a while too :)
→ Posted by: Branille at July 12, 2003 2:10 AM
the former audience indeed... also known as the internet's dull, blind muthafuckas. Depressing thought for a fellow designer, I mean when you realise that your visitors give 1% of a shit to the look, why bother? Just be standards compliant and serve up RS* feeds? whats the point? huh?? I give up...
→ Posted by: paulpod at July 12, 2003 2:57 AM
Not noticing an image in the header and not noticing the design are two different things. For my part, I have noticed the cleanness of Tom's design, if not the plastic bag...
Apart from that, I am of the opinion that a good design is unobtrusive and should be noted only by its absence.
→ Posted by: Martin Wisse at July 12, 2003 11:13 AM
Behold the folly of undesign. Or not.
→ Posted by: Graham at July 12, 2003 1:12 PM
Is it a sainsbury or safeways placcy bag?
I noticed it straight away, nice design.
→ Posted by: eanws at July 12, 2003 6:08 PM
I still don't see the plastic bag :(.
→ Posted by: mucus plug at July 13, 2003 12:41 AM
Being perhaps the only person without broadband in the civilized world, I see (thanks to my sloppy ISP) the plastic bag crawl on, followed by the text. Oh wait, that's because I've got RealOne open, and I'm downloading the latest build of Camino...
Still, how can't you notice it?
→ Posted by: Tom Morris at July 13, 2003 1:47 AM
true...it's not that plasticy..
→ Posted by: kavi at July 13, 2003 3:13 AM
Looks lke a paper bag to me too
→ Posted by: Robert Worrill at July 18, 2003 12:17 PM