Aurland Norway is one of greatest architecture masterpieces of modern history. Designed by Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen, offers a spectacular view of one of the largest fjords on Norway’s west coast.

Constructed in the most spectacular scenery of fijords near Aurland, this panoramic point situated on the jagged west coast. Architecture of this object joined in complete harmony with environment and create an extreme thrilling experience. Architects designed a 30-metre-long ramp-like walk to the open space, and treating visitors to a breathtaking feeling. A virtually invisible 1.2-metre-high glass barrier perpetuates the sense of potentially falling off the edge of this structure.

Aurland Look Out, Aurland, Norway Architects: Saunders Arkitektur & Wilhelmsen Arkitektur Todd Saunders, Tommie Wilhelmsen

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The Web 2.0 phenomenon is everywhere now. Although not everybody clearly understand what does it mean, this term have spread already over every blog and site that care to be “on the edge”.

I do not want to explain here what does the name of Web 2.0 mean, there are many articles about it in Internet and paper media. I rather try to find out about web 2.0's influence to visual design. So this short article for designers, and about design.

The web developing all the time, and because Internet is a media, the design approaches alter. Paper media adopting the web design methods, and vice versa. Principles of identity have changed dramatically during the last 10 years, there are no 4 colors rules, and so on. Today is the turning point to the web and maybe designers need to develop their term for the new way of designing?

So can we formulate the sense of Design 2.0 as our fellows web developers and marketers do?

There is a big temptation to build some chart like Tim O'Reilly done in his article What Is Web 2.0 about Design 1.0 and Design 2.0:

It's just an short example of the possible list. What did we got finally?

Now I see how some of you raising your hands over your keyboards to write something like: “Hey, dude, what do you have against my beloved pattern backgrounds?!”

And you will be totally right, there are no ways to determine what Design 2.0 is. The visual language and style of design vary dramatically depending on task, target auditory and many other factors. The uses of forms and graphic elements are too difficult for such classification, in one case they works, in another sucks, and this is a biggest difference of art and aesthetics from such things like business and web.

Fortunately there is no way to Design 2.0, Design 2.1 and Design 3.0.

What do you think about it? Please feel free to comment this article.

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Designed by Alfredo Häberli

Alfredo Haberli was born in Buenos Aires in 1964, and studied industrial design at the Superior School of Design. In 1988, Alfredo Haberli began working with Christophe Marchand for the Museum of Design in Zurich. Since then, Alfredo Haberli has been designing for many international companies and is recognised to be one of the best designers in Switzerland.

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