Stereogum has always been a little hard to look at, and now it’s just hard in a different way. I know they’re your competitors and everything, but just toggle between Pitchfork’s site and yours. Now toggle between Brooklyn Vegan’s and yours. Not that Brooklyn Vegan is the epitome of design, but Stereogum’s site is like an assault on my ocular cavities. EVERYTHING is way too large, and has been given the same amount of importance. How can anyone navigate the space when everything on the page is screaming at you? Even the article headings are WAY too large.
And not to go on a tirade (I’m really trying to be constructive), but that logo has no presence at all. I don’t know why you were so antsy to get rid of the headphones; they were the only thing giving your page any identity, along with the feature icons (which I’ve always liked) and the blue and brown (THANK YOU, by the way, for changing the brown to the chocolate from the baby shit variety). I think it’d be great if the headphones got an update and were *incorporated* into the logo (and by incorporate, I mean make the type and the artwork the same language, as opposed to just slapping a pair of headphones next to what you already have). But the thing that is currently occupying space in the upper left corner is not a logo as is. It’s a poorly designed typeface with some letter centers punched out.
Sorry, Stereogum. I love the content, but the package needs work.
Stereogum has always been a little hard to look at, and now it’s just hard in a different way. I know they’re your competitors and everything, but just toggle between Pitchfork’s site and yours. Now toggle between Brooklyn Vegan’s and yours. Not that Brooklyn Vegan is the epitome of design, but Stereogum’s site is like an assault on my ocular cavities. EVERYTHING is way too large, and has been given the same amount of importance. How can anyone navigate the space when everything on the page is screaming at you? Even the article headings are WAY too large.
And not to go on a tirade (I’m really trying to be constructive), but that logo has no presence at all. I don’t know why you were so antsy to get rid of the headphones; they were the only thing giving your page any identity, along with the feature icons (which I’ve always liked) and the blue and brown (THANK YOU, by the way, for changing the brown to the chocolate from the baby shit variety). I think it’d be great if the headphones got an update and were *incorporated* into the logo (and by incorporate, I mean make the type and the artwork the same language, as opposed to just slapping a pair of headphones next to what you already have). But the thing that is currently occupying space in the upper left corner is not a logo as is. It’s a poorly designed typeface with some letter centers punched out.
Sorry, Stereogum. I love the content, but the package needs work.