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New Antony Gormley website

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Posted by Mark Sinclair, 23 November 2009, 10:24    Permalink    Comments (16)

Amp London is behind a new website for Antony Gormley that documents thousands of the artist's drawings and sculptures...

The site – antonygormley.com – took two years to realise and contains a wealth of imagery of Gormley's work since the early 1970s. It also features numerous unpublished pieces, sketches and drawings.

According to Amp much of the hard work is behind the scenes ensuring that, despite being an image-heavy site, the pages load up quickly. The navigation is also nicely done, with a clean list of Gormley's pieces listed as thumbnails leading through to larger versions and captions. 

"For the gallery pages we had to build an image viewer that could handle an unlimited number of images," explains Amp's Chester Chipperfield. "The site was built from the ground-up using custom components and it uses a combination of server-side caching and image loading and unloading, depending on if the image is 'on' or 'off' the screen. The search feature also uses our own backend indexing utilities."

In the Resources section there are also numerous essays, photographs of his studio, and audio and videos files for the committed Gormley fan including, a little bizarrely, his 1998 appearance on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

antonygormley.com launces today.

Design Team: Chester Chipperfield, Melanie Bartheidel, James Hurst, Hugh Charrington. Development Team: Russell Hall, Oliver Brook, Bryan Hunt, Rory Cullen, Adrian Ma.

 

16 Comments

Great! But...check the website link!
mekmek
2009-11-23 11:27:37

@mekmek
Thanks, that's fixed now
CR Mark Sinclair
2009-11-23 11:30:17

Looks an aweful lot like http://www.samuel-fisher.com thats been around for about a year.
Matt
2009-11-23 11:40:21

All your links in this article go to http://www.anthonygormley.com - note the www and the "h" in antony. This is not his site, just someone parking the domain.
Charlotte
2009-11-23 11:52:20

@Charlotte
Again, they're all fixed now
CR Mark Sinclair
2009-11-23 12:08:36

I like the design of the site. Though I find the gallery part slightly overwhelming, there's almost too many images in there!
Mark Batup
2009-11-23 12:44:04

Another site that looks like its html but is built in Flash... why?
John
2009-11-23 13:29:55

Deee-lish! I really dig Gormley's work so it's all kinds of fab to have access to such an embarrassment of riches.
Katy McDevitt
2009-11-23 13:37:58

Agree with John, no point at all the site being Flash, useless on accessibility and for SEO, any half decent agency would have been able to create that site with equally effective fades etc using html and a touch of js!
Mike
2009-11-23 13:57:52

Very clean site while not being too staid and, considering there are so many images, it's amazingly fast. Gormley must be pretty happy with this!
Dan
2009-11-23 14:05:10

Mousewheel doesn't work. I haven't used a scrollbar in years.
Stephen
2009-11-23 21:26:25

i agree with the others. why flash? its clunky and causes accessibility issues. I thought use of flash for a site like this stopped years ago.
ben
2009-11-24 13:46:17

This has got to be the nicest website i have ever seen; I couldn't care if it were made with toffee and tic-taks - it works beautifully - it showcases the work effortlessly - and it is so rich in content you can explore for hours (I just have) and not even scratch the surface.

The tenants of good design are surly: works well (this does better than anything else i've used), accommodates the content (this is seamless) and makes you want more (I can't get enough).

Flash bashing this site based on an SEO argument is an indicator of a petty poster (@Mike). Doesn't Gormley have enough of a name to allow for seamless beauty over killer SEO?

@ben @Stephen @Mike @John please find a way to let some poetry into your lives - this is surely the best site you have ever had the luck to play with.
James
2009-11-24 19:31:16

This site is well designed, but the usability is poor. i got a normal sized screen but i had to search for the little arrows around.

but i really like the clean style of it.
marksu
2009-11-25 15:21:43

what made matt think he's work looks like fisher's. no way near.
there's great work there in gormley and i like that he's got lots of images. makes one stay longer on the site and get the most out of his work.
krina
2009-11-26 15:42:50

@krina
I think he meant the website, not the art work, was quite similar. same font, same red text highlighting and similar name placement etc
But, apparently both artists studied at Cambridge Uni which provides a possible link in the philosophy behind their work.
Mike
2009-12-02 12:46:35

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