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halfproject http://www.halfproject.com (design offline)

Category:
Graphics & Web Design > Resources

Created by:
Drew Europeo, Niccolo Balce and Zylonzoo - Rex Advincula in 2001

See also:
halfproject #2

Rating:
7.5 (49 votes)

Date added:
Nov 8th, 2001

Last updated:
Nov 20th, 2002

Tools Used:
3ds max, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Streamline, Cascading Style Sheets Guide, CuteFTP, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia HomeSite, PHP, WinZip, WS_FTP Pro

Our comments:
halfproject is the brainchild of three gifted artists from Philippines, and its mission is "to inspire the local and foreign design scene and promote collaboration and communication". The whole halfproject web site is a work of art: On many web sites, interface is predominant over artwork, but here, it is exactly the opposite: all elements of user interaction seem to be lost in the jungle of gorgeous illustrations. However you can easily find your way out since the interface is consistent: there are always a couple of select boxes and inline frames on almost every page. The background illustrations were almost always drawn from below or above eye level to give a dramatic feel to the depicted scenes. Although the illustrations are gigantic (around 1000x1000 pixels), they all are optimized for a 800-pixel wide screen; higher resolutions reveal complementary details.

--Aycan

samktheman (27) - Dec 10th, 2002 Presentation  7 Graphics  9 Usability  4 Technical  9 Personal Slant  10 Overall 7.8 Very good site - is it me using a shared ADSL internet connection or is it slow to load? Anyway, good use of Flash. Well, I can't say my site is better. didulica (44) - Dec 5th, 2002 Presentation  8 Graphics  9 Usability  7 Technical  8 Personal Slant  10 Overall 8.4 already years the same toplevel work. Anna B. Desheiner (12) - Aug 4th, 2002 Presentation  10 Graphics  10 Usability  10 Technical  10 Personal Slant  10 Overall 10.0 Put the likes of Surfstation, Design is Kinky, Kaliber and these fellas in a cagefight, and our Filipine friends would win hands down, with K10K as runner-up. Original, humorous, stimulating (are you taking notes Surfstation, DIK?) and gorgeous, without losing sight of usability. Holder of the Championbelt, still undefeated...Halfproject! Shivas Disciple (4) - Jul 28th, 2002 Wicked.....man ...wicked Bel (15) - Jul 15th, 2002 Presentation  9 Graphics  10 Usability  8 Technical  9 Personal Slant  10 Overall 9.2 Halfproject has been recognized as a pioneer website for it has been able to inspire other Filipino webdesigners to create new unique themes and designs. Their style can totally infect minds to become more creative and unique - such awesome ideas. kyle_19 (30) - Jul 1st, 2002 Nice designs... Also it's very original. Contents are also very satisfactory. This site is truly a great design site. Actually why not make it a design portal of the Philippines. francesco (17) - Jun 21st, 2002 Presentation  10 Graphics  10 Usability  10 Technical  10 Personal Slant  10 Overall 10.0 top content top graphics chubness (16) - Jun 3rd, 2002 Presentation  8 Graphics  8 Usability  5 Technical  1 Personal Slant  1 Overall 4.6 This websites pictures are amazing...however I feel the content suck and doesn't make any sense.....:( Hanson (28) - Apr 25th, 2002 Presentation  7 Graphics  9 Usability  7 Technical  6 Personal Slant  8 Overall 7.4 Great design, great content, truly this is a benchmark site. nelwin (4) - Mar 22nd, 2002 Presentation  8 Graphics  9 Usability  7 Technical  7 Personal Slant  10 Overall 8.2 halfproject rocks ! very nice and original illustrations + color.This site is so popular not only in the Philippines but all over the world. Truly one of the sites Filipinos can be proud of. fish (6) - Feb 27th, 2002 Presentation  7 Graphics  10 Usability  1 Technical  7 Personal Slant  2 Overall 5.4 Magnificent artwork presentations, but replete with mystery meat navigation from the start. Falling victim of a static font size in the text boxes, not only does the site prove to be hard to read, you can't do anything about it. The features it boasts, you have no clue what they're about. The site forces you to stumble through links, to discover what sections of the website you want to visit. If you go enough, you'll eventually love it. But, you're going to have to wander a bit first. jandizon (9) - Feb 4th, 2002 Presentation  9 Graphics  9 Usability  7 Technical  8 Personal Slant  10 Overall 8.6 This site has been my inspiration bringing all web developers to new ideas that would improve and take web design into a new dimension... sho-maaan (29) - Jan 17th, 2002 Presentation  7 Graphics  10 Usability  7 Technical  6 Personal Slant  10 Overall 8.0 The art work is so good that i save this page more than 2 or 3 times. Franky (13) - Jan 2nd, 2002 Presentation  7 Graphics  9 Usability  7 Technical  7 Personal Slant  9 Overall 7.8 this site is probably your realisation that you still have a really long way to go and haven't accomplished anything remotely as good as this. and that is why you anonimously give it bad ratings... oh, you know you do. the SaNdMaN (10) - Jan 2nd, 2002 Presentation  8 Graphics  9 Usability  7 Technical  7 Personal Slant  10 Overall 8.2 Beautiful lines and curves . . . everything is detail-crafted to perfection! Sakura_kari (11) - Dec 23rd, 2001 Presentation  9 Graphics  9 Usability  8 Technical  9 Personal Slant  10 Overall 9.0 i think that this site is brilliant! i love the drawings as they are very much like anime and the graphics are good too. Shawn (34) - Dec 22nd, 2001 Presentation  10 Graphics  10 Usability  7 Technical  6 Personal Slant  8 Overall 8.2 a rough diamond. Mugsy (23) - Dec 7th, 2001 Presentation  9 Graphics  9 Usability  8 Technical  8 Personal Slant  8 Overall 8.4 Very wonderful. A joy to explore the pages. Rich in content & gfx Martin (14) - Dec 4th, 2001 Presentation  7 Graphics  9 Usability  8 Technical  8 Personal Slant  8 Overall 8.0 Beautiful drawings, well coloured as well Sarah (34) - Nov 28th, 2001 Presentation  7 Graphics  8 Usability  7 Technical  5 Personal Slant  7 Overall 6.8 awesome illustrations really. OB (17) - Nov 19th, 2001 Presentation  7 Graphics  9 Usability  5 Technical  6 Personal Slant  8 Overall 7.0 me like mucho! Timmy G (18) - Nov 18th, 2001 Presentation  7 Graphics  9 Usability  6 Technical  4 Personal Slant  7 Overall 6.6 huge load, dodgy navigation, obscure content presentation, but daaaamn, wot a gorgeous graphs! //udminc (12) - Nov 17th, 2001 Presentation  8 Graphics  9 Usability  9 Technical  2 Personal Slant  9 Overall 7.4 Took a while to load, even with a DSL connection - however, that could be caused by a variety of factors. Overall, pretty good! Kay (16) - Nov 14th, 2001 Presentation  6 Graphics  9 Usability  7 Technical  5 Personal Slant  7 Overall 6.8 wonderful illustrations tend to overwelm content and navigation