Hi Success,

If you peruse Flash Developers sites regularly - you see LOTS of cool stuff. This format was knocked off of a site developed for a rap group - which I had seen on a site well over a year ago.

Flash is easily pirated if you do not lock out reverse coding which many amateur and even semi-professional flash folks don't do. So flash sites are very often 'reverse engineered'. Developers show their formats to other flash folks for critiques and many scurrilous folks steal their ideas. In the spot the Guggenheim.com has art panel links - the rap group had music video and album links.

There's a certain 'techno feel' with small lettering and thin lines that has also been done to death with flash.

The flash community (as most new mediums are) are generally very sheepish and imitate each other quite a bit, and because it is easy to pirate a whole site format that's loaded on one's comp with a click or two - lots of 'no-talents' steal hours and hours of labor.

Guggenheim and lots of other sites that hire flash designers do not peruse these sites (or else they might have their site done inhouse) so they can be sold pilfered designs and be totally innocent parties.

"Its a mean mean world...it's a nasty nasty world" - Spykids 2001

Best wishes,

SDAI-Tech1