Here’s a side project I did back in 2002. It was a layout redo for one of my favorite websites of the dotcom era, buzzkiller.net. This is a collection of writers who were fed up with buzzwords of the time and where doing something about it.
At the time, I was working for a company that wanted to be much larger, and loved to use these sort of buzzwords and catch-phrases all the time. Having to read these emails was a bit of a chore, but not quite as bad as some of the shizz buzzkiller was documenting. These guys are actual writers, so I can imagine how irate they must have been having to deal with this day in and day out.
So here’s a before and after shot of buzzkiller.net.
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- Buzzkiller.net before redo
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- Buzzkiller after redo
Buzzkiller.net is still going strong today, but now has a cleaner blogeresque theme going on. No worries, I can always cruise over to archive.org and pull up this design whenever I want to logon and surf down memory lane.
I still keep in contact theRedWorm. You’ve probably read his work in a handful of magazines. While he’s written for countless publications, I remember his work from Wired the most. My favorite is the article he did for Wired when he went through NASA’s hypergravity test. He flatlined for four seconds then came back and wrote an article about it. How wicked is that? In case you didn’t see this article you can read it here. I highly recommend checking it out.
Anyways, if you’re into rhobust, scaleable, highly integrated, synergistic komono opening writing,
check out this buzzword conversion chart. It should help you get through your next meeting or company ra-ra email a little easier.
