When we were just starting out in the world of software, my friend Mike and I designed a few websites for friends and family. We did this under the brand 'Surf Design'. Somewhere along the way, armed with the naive optimism of youth (and a copy of Adobe Image Styler), we set about designing ourselves a marketing website. I recently discovered this site in my archives and thought it might be entertaining to revisit it.

By this point in our enterprise, we were apparently aspiring to three whole separate business arms: professional website design, personal website design, and graphics and branding. Each had its own microsite and the landing page for our site brought these three brands together into one horrendous, unified whole, complete with the best fonts, layer styles, and rollovers the 90s had to offer.

For your viewing pleasure, I present Surf Design: