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Radio Reykjavik

Tuesday April 13th, 2004

The Icelandic language must be a designers dream. Just take a look at the beautiful headers for Radio Reykjavik. You'd be forgiven for thinking that “FORSÍÐA” (frontpage) is an image even though it's just plain old text. Very old text in fact:

“Resistance to change is one of the characteristics of the Icelandic language, which explains the fact that a twelfth-century text is still easy to read for a modern Icelander. However, Icelandic has undergone considerable change in its phonetics. Another characteristic of the language is its uniformity, i.e. absence of dialects.”
Source: NAT

Could this “resistance to change” be the reason for the spelling of “rokk'n'roll”? Not even Lemmy of Motörhead could come up with such a great spelling!

Radio Reykjavik is developed by Andri Sigurðsson and his own personal portfolio is another great site.

Reviewed by Johan Edlund

Comments on: Radio Reykjavik

#1

Don't underestimate Lemmy!

Posted by Jason Santa Maria :: April 13th, 2004 at 12:20 PM

#2

Love the navigation, bud. And, I won't forget to mention the nice use of drop shadows. Nice work, nice work.

Posted by Christoph :: April 13th, 2004 at 05:08 PM

#3

Totally Sweet, Dude!

Posted by Aaron Cain :: April 13th, 2004 at 05:40 PM

#4

Great site. It's at last nice to see a site here that i haven't seen before at the CSS Vault or someplace else ;)

Posted by Ville :: April 13th, 2004 at 08:04 PM

#5

this is a nice site, I like the navigation, how it has different active and hover states.

I like the background dirt.

It is a total Fludenbartker , you know what I am saying Gopfernadiks.

Posted by Danny Cohen :: April 14th, 2004 at 03:03 AM