In the late ’90s, the internet was exploding—and MTV was ahead of the curve with one of the earliest websites. Around that time, Manabu Inada, the art director at Viacom, spotted one of my nightclub flyers. He reached out and asked if I’d join him as an assistant on a groundbreaking project: helping design one of MTV’s first websites. The aesthetic was heavily inspired by Ghost in the Shell, which had just hit the scene and left a deep mark on the visual direction.
At some point, MTV even tried to build its own search engine, called “UnfURLed”
client
Viacom
tasks
first websites. micro sites
content pages on one of MTV’s earliest websites in 1995 & 1996
I kept on working as a graphic designer for MTV projects, a search engine called Unfurled, the reality shows The Hills, as well as websites for CMT, a band competition portal called Addicted 2 Noise, a video portal for Madonna, and parts of the MTV website.
