Tonight I was notified by a Twitter user about a redesign of a website. Being a very curious person, I visited the site to see the result. Imagine my surprise when I found out the main focus of the homepage was a series of pictures of some of the company's customers. The funny thing is, that I recognized two out of four people in the pictures. Not because I know the people in the pictures, but because I'd seen them quite a few times before. I remembered using one of their pictures before in a website, after buying it from iStockphoto.com. I was amazed however, because in this website, the pictures were used to create the impression that those were the people working for that company.
Now off course I could pose the question: how far can you take the use of stock photography in your (web)designs. However that's not what I'm gonna do, though you can feel free to respond to this question anyway.
I think this time I'd like to create a game. I'm gonna call it "The ultimate stockphoto search game". Here's the goal: who can come up with the most websites in which the female employee in the following link is portrayed:
female executive smiling
And just for your info: you can also pick websites from my own portfolio :-)
Just drop your findings in the comments!
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