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I promised to help my brother improve his website. He is a stained glass artist. I have been spending a little time this afternoon looking around for inspiration of other stained glass sites and they all SUCK! And they suck hard. It’s even hard to find ones that I like a little bit.

I like this one a little bit: De’Danann Glassworks, but their windows just hurt my feelings. Drab and lifeless, instead of sparkling and amazing.

I’ve never really thought about it before, but since I started looking around at the windows that are available online, my brother is a really damn good stained glass artist. (1) He can actually draw. (2) His colors are a million times better than any of these jokers. (3) His concepts for the windows are really cool.

I don’t really like this woman’s work, but at least it’s a portfolio page, so I’m gonna bookmark it here. Here’s a horrendous flash site from some Australian artist. That guy had the nerve to steal and modify the MS Windows logo to make it look like a stained glass window. Except it doesn’t even really. Jesus. I found these through stainedglassartists.com.

I’m snooping around in my bro’s graphics folder, looking for images that I like. Cause I know I saw ones that aren’t linked anywhere from the site. I’m gonna make a list.

That @ alpha symbol that he uses is cool.

This Jesus Geometry closeup is cool

I like this one

I always liked this one of the animals & seasons, but it’s too small here. Plus I don’t love all the logo/text treatment.

Here’s the matching omega symbol.

This severed head and hands is super cool, though I don’t know what it is or what it’s from.

I always liked this pilgrim one with the maps and shit.

This is neat, just some semi-circles with designs in them.

This is pretty neat too.

This is cool too. We need more like this.

This door one’s nice even though I prefer pictoral to abstract ones.

This workshop one is cool too, plus the teaching ones are good. Behind the scenes stuff is a good idea.

In fact, in would be cool to have an “inside the studio” section with pictures and basic info, and maybe a journal about projects. Cause I’m sure I’m not the only one who is curious about how this shit is done.

Overall, we definitely need to use bigger pictures all around, for greater impact. Bold colors and shapes need to be more commanding on the site.

Plus text. We need text all over to draw in search engines. Links to various other stained glass places would not be a horrible idea either. But whatever.

I have this idea that it should look like the designs that Ivan Bilibin did around his illustrations. Lots of cool blocks and borders.

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