# Carmex Lip Balm **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [August 29, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/carmex-lip-balm/237353 "2007-08-29T17:02:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FlawlessDog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/flawlessdog/32/3633_2.png) [@FlawlessDog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlawlessDog)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/carmex-lip-balm/237353/1 "2007-08-29T17:02:46Z")
About a year ago, I was part of a team that created the new Carma Labs website. I worked with the designers, and took all their artwork, and built this site in SwishMax. Over the past couple weeks, I got a chance to practice some small amount of my design skills. A new phrase “It Protects” was added to the Carmex tag line, and I got to design the art for that. So that new bit was added to the Intro, Visual Timeline, and Product(one of the now 4, random images that start the product display area) pages. Tightened up the News pages, and put in some new stuff. More changes are in the works, but I can show this much of what’s to come. [http://www.carma-labs.com/](http://www.carma-labs.com/) ---
**Author:** ![FlawlessDog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/flawlessdog/32/3633_2.png) [@FlawlessDog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlawlessDog)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/carmex-lip-balm/237353/2 "2008-06-07T00:06:42Z")
Here’s a cool update I just did for Carmex Lip Balm 🙂 Did a neat little animation for the main page. [http://www.carma-labs.com/](http://www.carma-labs.com/) It only plays the one time, so if you’d like to see it over and over again, check this one out. Just click on it to re-play the anima… [http://www.flawlessdog.com/animaCarmex/](http://www.flawlessdog.com/animaCarmex/) _…and_ For all you legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are 13 years of age or older at the time of entry, _Check this out_ **“Share the Tingle” video contest.** [http://www.carma-labs.com/](http://www.carma-labs.com/) [http://www.sharethetingle.com/](http://www.sharethetingle.com/) > **[Carmex](https://www.youtube.com/carmex)** > > We've got a new website! Check it out: www.mycarmex.com > > In 1937, cold sore sufferer Alfred Woelbing began making Carmex out of his home and selling the now-trademarked little jars from the trunk of his car. 75 years and more than a billion jars... > Do you have a unique Carmex story to share? Why do you think people love Carmex so much? How do you share the tingle? Well, break out your video camera or cell phone (and some Carmex!) and show us your movie making magic. Check out the prize list… [http://www.sharethetingle.com/](http://www.sharethetingle.com/) I can’t enter, but some of 'ya all can. Have fun 😉 ---
**Author:** ![matthewjumps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@matthewjumps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/matthewjumps)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/carmex-lip-balm/237353/3 "2008-06-08T09:29:09Z")
That’s pretty horrible. Total waste of Flash. And as mentioned, you didnt pull off the ‘retro’ look, it just looks shoddy, poorly designed and dated. Seriously the body copy’s typography is atrocious. And little things like the aliasing on scaled images bother me. I’m sorry, this really is sub-par if you ask me. That animation is kinda neat though, I do like that 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FlawlessDog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/flawlessdog/32/3633_2.png) [@FlawlessDog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlawlessDog)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/carmex-lip-balm/237353/4 "2008-06-09T16:55:45Z")
Oh well… Thanks very much for the feedback. It is always appreciated. It’s a bit funny to me. About half the people I have shown this to over the past couple years it’s been live, like it a lot, and about half simply hate it. I very much wish I could take credit for the design of this site, but alas that honor belongs to [Mercury Communication](http://www.mercuryww.com/). All I did was the anima/programming. I guess the biggest reason I bumped this up to begin with, was because of the video contest. I figured the students around these parts might be interested in that bit, regardless of the design of the site. Still, I am looking forward to seeing all the entries. If anybody from here enters, best of luck to 'ya 🙂 [http://www.carma-labs.com/](http://www.carma-labs.com/) [http://www.sharethetingle.com/](http://www.sharethetingle.com/) [http://www.youtube.com/carmex](http://www.youtube.com/carmex) [http://www.youtube.com/group/carmex](http://www.youtube.com/group/carmex) ---
**Author:** ![StigC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@StigC](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/StigC)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/carmex-lip-balm/237353/5 "2008-06-09T19:23:44Z")
Share the tinkle… Hehe! … I’m only 5 years old! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/carmex-lip-balm/237353/6 "2008-06-09T19:50:52Z")
I think it looks pretty neat. Not crazy about the movement though, I would have loved this site in CSS. If you want to use flash you need to… flash it up a bit 😛 ---
**Author:** ![matthewjumps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@matthewjumps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/matthewjumps)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/carmex-lip-balm/237353/7 "2008-06-12T02:26:09Z")
[quote=FlawlessDog;2339479]I very much wish I could take credit for the design of this site, but alas that honor belongs to [Mercury Communication](http://www.mercuryww.com/). [/quote] And there we have another site that really shouldnt be flash… > [@sekasi](#): > > I would have loved this site in CSS. If you want to use flash you need to… flash it up a bit 😛 exactly :hat: ---
**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/carmex-lip-balm/237353/8 "2008-06-12T02:45:23Z")
lol. Some of the videos are pretty funny.