New technologies and applications have given rise to a dizzying variety of innovation and experimentation on the web. Max Bruinsma's new book 'Deep Sites' is an in-depth survey of issues surrounding interface, typography and animation design, and the challenges designers face on the web. It is organized into five critical areas: Interface, which explores the best ways to navigate cyberspace; Typography, an analysis of the reinvention of letterforms; Animation, which views the web as a time-based medium in which print and TV environments are combined into new formats; Community, an investigation of the explosive growth of personal and community homepages; and Authoring, which examines the proliferation of websites created by complete amateurs.
With 6 essays and over 120 richly illustrated website reviews, 'Deep Sites' is one of the first books to match the critical discourses of media theory with the cutting edge practice of web design.
Max Bruinsma is a free-lance international critic of graphic design and former editor of the design magazines Eye and Items.