The light at the end

Architectural Review, The, June, 2005 by Sutherland Lyall

I usually grope for a useful answer when people ask for the name of a website designer they could hire. I tend to vaguely suggest Tomato Interactive co-founder. Joel Baumann, http://www.tomato.co.uk/. It's vaguely because he only does projects he is interested in, charges more than cheapskate rates, and is probably a tad too innovative for straight business sites.

And he is anyway settled as new media prof at Kassel University in Germany. Then there is Matthew Jones doing a year out at www.lts.co.uk whose site he designed in exemplary fashion. But he will surely soon be lost to studenthood for the duration of his diploma. Yet there is hope in the form of bitedigital at www.bitedigital.com. I found the site via the very neat website the practice had designed for ACQ Architects, at www.acq-architects.com, which is restrained, fast, informative and unburdened with long useless texts. These are the characteristics of most of bitedesign's other site designs which are mostly all of the above and a pleasure to look at. Clients include the photographers Peter Cook, Niall McDiarmid and George Kavanagh. There are music people, artists, corporations, craftspeople as well as architects. Don't say I sent you but take a look at its work. Needless to say no inducements have been offered or received.