Month: July 2009

Friday Five: a top five list of 10s

  1. 10 weird ways to distribute music
  2. 10 ways universities share information using social media
  3. 10 tips for kicking ass as a freelance writer
  4. 10 free resources for splashy graphics and slick photos
  5. Top 10 endearing habits of a geeky spouse

Coolest university website ever?

Web designers, the gauntlet has been thrown.

<i>Screen shot from Zokei University's web campaign, via Adverblog.</i>
Screen shot from Zokei University's web campaign, via Adverblog.

According to Adverblog, this website — part of a recruitment campaign for Tokyo’s Zokei University, an art and design school — is the coolest university website ever. (Hat tip to @ConversationAge for the link.)

Quoth Adverblog:

The website looks exactly like a[n] 8-bit videogame, and I can’t imagine a better way to drive recruitment for an art and design school. If the website is so fresh and “brave”, you can definitely expect their approach to education to be as fresh and open.

It’s interesting, no doubt. But is it cool? It may be big in Japan, but would it work in the West?

What do you think?