Sandbox Designs Competition

Promised Land

About the designer

Adam Freetly Adam is an architect by trade, CG artist by night, and a Web designer purely by hobby. Adam is both a Chicagoan and a certified coffee addict.

Posted by Scott, on August 2, 2007 at 4:01 am. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

10 Comments

sunburntkamel

Posted August 2, 2007 at 1:15 pm | Permalink | Edit

Download and Info at archGFX.
Hillary

Posted August 4, 2007 at 5:14 pm | Permalink | Edit

I think this is stunning, both in layout and aesthetics. It’s really hard to make a design with so much happening on the page hang together this well, but this just makes my eyes happy.
brightfeather

Posted August 6, 2007 at 12:05 am | Permalink | Edit

Of all the themes I see depicted here your two themes are the only ones that I would consider using.

I believe this one has a particularly good feel and I like the structure. It’s beautifully designed.
Scott

Posted August 7, 2007 at 4:24 am | Permalink | Edit

The graphics here are exceptional. The presentation of the content on the index page is really imaginative. An excellent design that will be imitated in the very near future. A real show-stopper design. Great work, Adam. Easily my favorite work by you.
Ian Stewart

Posted August 7, 2007 at 5:30 pm | Permalink | Edit

Much like we all went nuts over styling asides, I think Promised Land will have a similar effect. I know it’s had me thinking.
that girl again

Posted August 7, 2007 at 10:08 pm | Permalink | Edit

My theory remains that the only reason this failed to garner any points is that if you’re operating within the BBH paradigm, a design like this is inevitably going to freak you out
Dave

Posted October 19, 2007 at 12:23 pm | Permalink | Edit

I’m astounded that this didn’t win, and can only suppose that none of the judges had a background in design.
adam

Posted October 19, 2007 at 5:09 pm | Permalink | Edit

thank you for the compliments. I do not wish for them to come at the expense of the judges talents’ though. I do know that at least 1 is educated as a designer. Designers are not always the best judges of design, and the panel reflects that, including marketing professionals, and others who rely on design’s functioning.
phirefli

Posted January 23, 2008 at 10:36 am | Permalink | Edit

not more than an hour ago i was complaining about how i hated most wp themes. they were always too gaudy, too simple, too complex, not graphic enough, too graphic…etc.,

then i find this and i sigh with relief.. upload it, activate it (shaking with excitement,) refresh my page… and disappointment hits me like a rock.

i’m positive it has to do with me using IE
adam

Posted January 29, 2008 at 10:15 pm | Permalink | Edit

if you’re having problems with the theme, please post them on the theme home page, and i’ll do my best to sort them out.