KesselsKramer.com

This has been going on for a while but is worth looking at anew because of a trend forecast outlined at today’s LS:N Global briefing. If you load the homepage of Dutch communications group Kessels Kramer you might be met with any number of baffling, barmy hanger sites – about Italian horror, trained butterflies, esoteric sciences, hot air balloons, in short anything but what you’re looking for. The project was used to illustrate what LSN’s team term “netstalgia”, a hankering for the aesthetics of the early internet days, and a concomitant online drive for personality, even at the expense of usability. Reloading a page has rarely been so addictive.