Macromedia.com metamorphosis
— After the massive sellout comes the creeping change. Adobe is busy transforming Macromedia into its own image.”
Change is finally happening over at macromedia.com, with the Adobe visual identity steadily (if clumsily) getting to grips with the Macromedia site structure.
It remains to be seen whether Macromedia’s traditionally rather tasty approach to layouts will carry over into the somewhat more monolithic Black, Red and White id at Adobe.
Macromedia’s design aesthetic was different, occasionally pioneering, and always a strong influence on other projects. You didn’t see a lot of curved corners before the 2004 edition!
As my salute to the brand that showed us that corporate websites could be sexy, let’s look back at a few screenshots of the Macromedia site through the years:
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
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I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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