Daniel Killilea
New Media 102B
Funny Garbage
Funny Garbage is one of the most prestigious web design and interactive entertainment companies since it started in 1996. Even while the web was still growing Funny Garbage was working on demos for major online companies like America online and Compaq. They created the website for Cartoon Network, which was one of the most successful online networks. They were also well known for creating many games that are extremely popular. In the early 2000’s they started working on more established media projects, like the show “Crank Yankers”, where they produced most of the visual design. Today they are producing designs for huge companies like Disney and MTV.
At this point Funny Garbage is working on all different aspects of the interactive entertainment business. One of their biggest entities is web design, not only did they change how a website could look like and work they could be one of the companies that was responsible for the web revolution. The visual aspects of their designs are very fresh, clean, and always playful. One of the reasons they are desired by many big companies is their ability to grab the attention of not only the younger generation but almost everyone can appreciate their dignified look. They have also established some of the best multimedia platforms you could imagine, the “N” networks website, which they designed has a great community board where your avatar can hang out at the virtual high school with all of your friends.
Some of the geniuses behind Funny Garbage of some of the most honored members of the web design community. The co-founders of this company, John Carlin and Peter Girardi, have astonishing resumes and awards that it makes sense that their company is at the top of the chain. John Carlin curated “Masters of American Comics” which showed the art of comics and graphic novels in one of the first major museum exhibitions. It’s not hard to understand why a lot of their designs have an ancestry of comics. Peter Girardi was the youngest person ever to be awarded with the prominent Daimler-Chrysler award for design because of the advances he mad in interactive media.
I’m very impressed by Funny Garbage’s approach to design and how they’re able to translate so beautifully the importance of it in our world today. I think back to when we got our first computer in our home and how the Internet was such a weird concept. Even still web design was so generic that I’m not sure you could even call it any kind of art. What a great achievements Funny Garbage was able to make and are still making, after reviewing them I’m intrigued to see where web and multi media design are headed, I’m sure only up.
Works Cited:
funnygarbage.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/funny_garbage
