Retro concept design of famous websites

The American Blog, aka Magazine, included a group of design works by painting artist Zazzle, whose theme was to recreate and package a series of well-known Internet social web sites in retro fashion, and cut into the colors, materials, and quotes quoted by the authors.

The designers chose Facebook, Youtube, Tumblr, Twitter, Myspace, Ffffound, Wikipedia, Flickr, Linkedin, Last.fm total of 10 sites, I am in the process of finishing, each poster on the overview of the translation and interpretation, and attached a personal understanding, please correct me.

Facebook: "The medium is the message." ”

This is from the 20th century famous media theorist Marshall McLuhan (Marshall Mcluhan) published in 1964 Book Works "Understanding Media: Human Extension", Marshall McLuhan very forward-looking and creative advice: the media is actually a collection of content, we study the media, is essentially a research message.

In Facebook's poster, the colorful characters sitting in front of a clunky computer, as part of a fragmented jigsaw puzzle, can be connected at any time--from top to bottom, and so on--to reflect the core features of Facebook: SNS (social networking Services).

Youtube: Big Brother is looking at you. ”

This is a statement from the Masterpiece "1984" by British writer George Orwell, reflecting the absence of any privacy under totalitarian rule.

Here to comment on the video sharing site YouTube, there is no doubt that there is a pun: YouTube created streaming media files on the Internet platform, each user can freely upload their own images, share to the world to watch, under the guidance of liberalism, privacy this thing, it seems that there is no residue. ：）

TUMBLR: "The picture is never visual-it's not what we see." ”

This sentence comes from the French deconstruction thinker Roland Barthes ' (Roland barthes), he is regarded as the leader of the French intelligentsia after Sartre, who specializes in a highly neurotic "divergence", Leelawadee speculative and direct demonstration as a whole, with a strong philosophical atmosphere.

differs from Twitter, which focuses on text transmission, the Tumblr of the microblogging site supports richer information applications-uploading and sharing directly at the main station without the need for third-party support, including text, pictures, quotes, links, chats, music, videos, and so on, and this manifestation also validates Roland Bart's remark, Tumblr brought, is not a unique visual function, but the spread of behavior patterns behind those who love Tumblr-style sharing habits of loyal users, this also explains why Tumblr can be in the lead when Twitter alone to open up a path to their own, Although not so broad, but also attractive.

Twitter: "Pay attention, or not?" ”

This sentence after grafting and processing, the original sentence from the writer Shakespeare's most famous drama "Hamlet" in the first scene, "to be," or "be,that is the question (survival or destruction, this is a question worth considering)".

The words that reflect Prince Hamlet's inner contradictions are used to Twitter, and the "superfluous" in the end added "followed", it is natural to let people think in the process of using Twitter, each encounter an interested user, they will make a decision whether "Follow" his /her situation. This simple relationship between the follow and the follow has swept through the Internet and created a network of "fast, micro and miscellaneous" communications, and it is now such a huge Twitter kingdom.