Last week, Flanders Fashion Institute launched its stylish new website, designed, patterned, cut and neatly sown together by Design is Dead.

Design is Dead and FFI are very proud to present what they hope will be the first of many joint creations. This fall, FFI displays a strong love for pure, strong lines and an impeccable attention to detail. The entire website is built on a few clear, strong theme colours, combined with a few eye-catching accessories to liven up the silhouettes, and breathes usability, understated elegance, and fashionability. Fashion lovers at home and abroad will adore this new website, which is the perfect blend of information (e.g., with all the latest fashion news and events, jobs, courses and workshops) and attractive qualities and appearance. Let it be known: Belgian high fashion has finally found its perfect online embodiment!

Yunomi, the largest online community for and by women in the Benelux, has been awarded the European Mixx Award in the category ‘Lead Generation’! No small feat–and we are fittingly proud of this achievement.

A few months ago, the Belgian part of the Yunomi team moved shop from Brussels to Antwerp to join the happy crowd here at Design is Dead. A lucky decision, because after the Belgian Silver Mixx Award of last year, last week this online community for and by women did one better: it took home the European Mixx Award in the category Lead Generation! This joint project of Emakina.nl and Design is Dead for Unilever is a huge success, as these numbers prove: with 315.000 members, 1 million visitors per month, and more than 3.6 million comments posted over the past two years, Yunomi can safely be said to be one of the most important online communities around. Gooooooooooo team!

On Wednesday, 8 June 2011, Design is Dead proudly launched what will definitely be one of the most amazing websites of 2011—the website of OFFF 2011! Our most important tools? Careful planning and organizing, intelligent and creative design, intense programming, and extensive tweaking and tuning, with a delightful result!

When we were asked last year if we were interested in concepting, designing, and creating the website for the OFFF festival 2011, to be held in Barcelona, we didn’t have to think about it very long. ‘Hell yeah!’, was the phrase, if memory serves. So we put three young, creative talents on the project and waited for the magic to happen, with a little (well, a lot of) help from their eager Design is Dead colleagues. That it did is easy to see: one look at their fantastic funky web creation proves that great and original minds were at work. But we couldn’t have pulled it ‘offf’ without the support of our partners in creation, Emakina FR & Emakina BE. Watch out Barcelona—Design is Dead is coming!

It’s not that Design is Dead actually started a TV station online—but this is close enough (for now): We created the new website of deMENSEN, one of Belgium’s finest TV production companies!

A while ago, deMENSEN asked the online taskforce of Design is Dead to revamp their website. Their main demands? That the website be user-friendly; that it put their portfolio of TV programs—their core business—in the picture; and that its design be understated and sleek.
Needless to say, we gave them exactly what they wanted—and a little more, just a sprinkle of that Design is Dead magic. To put the focus 100% on the programs (which include Blokken, De Tabel van Mendelejev en Low Impact Man) we opted for large visuals and a simple but elegant design, topped by drop-down navigation for easy and intuitive use…as if the programs themselves were presented on a TV monitor. We think it’s safe to say you will not feel the need to zap away!

Design is Dead proudly presents its new Creative Director: Bart Lommelen.

Bart Lommelen started working for Design is Dead in 2005, even before he graduated with high honours from Sint-Lukas in Graphic and Advertising Design. In 2008 he became Art Director at Antwerp’s finest agency. Now, he will be our new ingenious guru behind the scenes and on the set, guiding the creative process of our projects from concept and rough cut though pre- and post-production to the red carpet and the premiere.

“The example I’ve set myself for the task ahead is Quentin Tarantino. As a director, he is incredibly creative, quirky, and 100% dedicated to doing things his own way–without this stopping him from reaching a wide audience. That is what I want for Design is Dead: To ensure we stay a cutting-edge, rebellious online agency with its own creative look and feel and its own singular identity, all the while attracting clients from all sectors and walks of life.”

Each year, the festival season countdown begins with the launch of the new Rock Werchter website. For the 2010 edition, we pimped the 2009 structure with new graphics and extra features such as an extended picture gallery. Browse through a decade of festival fever, super bands and shiny happy party people and check out the latest news online.

Brand new client Delek asked us to perform a quite radical makeover on both Texaco.be and Texaco.nl. So, we scrubbed up, put on our surgical masks and started cutting and shaping. Our creative surgeries resulted in a dynamic website which looks attractive and contemporary, and is extremely easy to move around in. On top of that, the user is instantly stimulated to take actions (find a station, visit a shop,…) thanks to strategically placed and aesthetically designed content. Check out the refuelled and futureproofed Belgian and Dutch Texaco websites!

From traditional spot-advertising to event-sponsoring, MTV Networks has what it takes to pimp a brand’s mediaplan. Formerly only available in print, the MTV sales team decided to hit 2010 with a futureproof online exhibition of their many media solutions. Pimped by Design is Dead, of course…