Mabe, the RustyBrick designer behind the new RustyBrick.com site, blogged about her process and challenges when redesigning our site. She shared some screen captures of the designs that didn't make the cut. I wanted to add one more, one from before Mabe was with us.
The first redesign, before Mabe, looked something like this:
Then Mabe came up with this:
Then this:
And we finalized on this sweet design, which kept our core colors and look:
Remember the previous one from a week or two ago:
Remember the really old RustyBrick sites?
1999:
1998:
1997:










Comments
The guy holding the bricks and being chased is definitely a LOL design :.)
Posted by: Todd Mintz | August 28, 2009 4:31 PM
I actually liked it, it was incredibly cool Flash bit.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | August 28, 2009 4:40 PM
Wow, so I finally see the famous "running brick men" that never saw the light of day! I'd like to see the animated version of that, too!
Also, the 1999 version has cool graphics. Reminds me of a coffee shop :)
Posted by: Michael B | August 29, 2009 11:41 AM
I like how #2 calls Ronnie an "Egghead"
heh. Was #2 the 1st runnerup? I actually like it a lot.
Posted by: Jaimie Sirovich aka SEO Egghead | August 30, 2009 6:48 AM
Nice designs, any of them available as wordpress templates?
Posted by: SEO Chris | August 30, 2009 1:00 PM
Chris,
No, these are all custom designs not for WordPress.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | August 30, 2009 3:00 PM