aetherworld.org

Miranda July has a new collection of short stories coming out in May, called No One Belongs Here More Than You. But not only July's Book is a gem of unconventional storytelling: The book has a a stunning web site that is more creative than I've ever seen. The site has no navigation, except for forward / back buttons and consists of a series of images. No real text, just the images scaling to the size of your browser.

Of course, no serious webdesigner would ever consider making such a website for their client. The website is not accessible, doesn't fall back if you can't see images and is basically empty for search engines. It breaks every rule that contemporary web designers follow.

The intrguing thing is, it works. No, not just technically. The site works as a narrative that pulls the visitor along, a narrative that is also used in July's book. I loved the website so much, I couldn't stop clicking until I was through. And isn't this the point of a website like this?