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.
Mike
on 24 Jun 08I 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
on 24 Jun 08Nice 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
on 24 Jun 08Surely 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
on 24 Jun 08Conspiracy 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
on 24 Jun 08I’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
on 24 Jun 08Did this guy test the site in IE6? The CSS isn’t coming thru at all, so it looks completely messed up.
JF
on 24 Jun 08SomeGuy: 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
on 24 Jun 08A museum of automobile typography
What a wicked idea.
Matt Radel
on 24 Jun 08I 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
on 24 Jun 08Since 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
on 24 Jun 08The 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
on 24 Jun 08He 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
on 24 Jun 08He 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
on 25 Jun 08Speaking of cars, I’m strongly considering a new MINI Cooper.
Keith
on 25 Jun 08Neat 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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