Last week I was asked who was doing design I liked (being famously grouchy about other people’s design) and came up short, not because there isn’t good design out there, but because I hadn’t been looking for it recently. The next day, Seth and I dug up a few well designed blogs, and I noticed they all shared an interesting characterisitic, they all exhibited symptoms of having recently contracted the “Musical Baton” meme. Given the social nature of this meme, it was easier to track then the famous p23s5 meme, and I’ve only taken the time to make a simple infection map for this community. Additionally unlike p23s5 the meme itself is less interesting in its expression, but instead serves as a marker for a given community of suspectible individuals.

Jon Hicks proved to be a key infectious individual, one of the earliest to exhibit signs of this mutated strain of “Musical Baton” that seems to only pass between web designers (he was exposed to the original strain by Richard)

  1. Jon Hicks – hicksdesign

    Of course, why didn’t I think of Hicks? I look at his work everyday.

    1. Jason Santa Maria Warm colors, and brilliantly distressed.

      1. Rob Weychert

        1. http://www.glendathegood.com/blog/?p=38
          1. Interllectual
        2. http://www.jesandian.com/
        3. Mike Davidson A long time favorite. His blog header is the world’s only attractive webcam.

        4. Andy Budd

          1. Adactio
          2. Ian Lloyd
        5. http://www.kingcosmonaut.de/
      2. bearskinrug – If the web was illustrated.

      3. http://www.danielmall.com/new_index.php/2005/05/16/a-musical-baton

        1. New in Philly – Might be cheating to pull in Dali

      4. Shaun Inman – Attractive, modern, spare.

        1. D. Keith Robinson
        2. Jaredigital – Pink is really on a resurgence.
        3. Joe Clark – More attractive then his book cover
        4. Mike Doughty

      5. Zeldman

        1. Incisive
        2. Heather Champ – The definitive photo blog.
        3. pixelcharmer
        4. Veerle
          1. Stop Design – Ooh, hadn’t seen the new blue look.
    2. Beatnikpad
    3. my sleepy head

    4. SimpleBits

      1. sidesh0w
      2. Rusted Robot
      3. What do I know?
      4. Cameron Moll – Best orange XML logo (and use of orange in general)

    5. Joshuaink – Wow. Attack of the flowers.

      1. collylogic
      2. stuffandnonsense

      3. Kevin Leitch – I haven’t fully explored this branch, but some great exhibits of the meme.

        …

        1. maratz

          1. yesterdayishere
            1. Ordered List
              1. Garrett Dimon
                1. bartelme
      4. kartooner
      5. boxofchocolates

This entry is so ulgy, it almost seems a crime next to all of the above.