For example, clicking on this image:
leads to this one:
which then leads to this one:
which leads to...
As a graphic designer, I find this site incredibly useful in the process of image research for projects because I can easily hone in on a particular mood, look, or style when collecting images to inspire a similar mood in my own piece. However, past research, I know that I have easily spent hours recreationally perusing the site because of the manner in which one image leads so easily to another, creating a nice, linked flow through image files. I have literally had to give myself time limits in order to keep myself from spending too much time on this website.
However, my one criticism of the site is that I wish it contained more information about the visual content it presents. While it is convenient that the layout is not complicated by copious amounts of text, it would be helpful in some cases to have a bit of information on the page without having to hyperlink to the source. Sometimes I would like to know more about a certain picture's context, since that can layer an image with a lot more meaning than it may contain self-sufficiently. In this way it is a unique type of artistic forum since most of the images are separated from their context, source, and artist by at least one degree.
Overall, though, I feel like ffffound.com's formatting supports its content appropriately for its purpose. The way it tosses images into a sort of visual gumbo gives users license to approach it as a site to inspire new designs and enable a certain recycling of visual media. Therefore, if you are in search of the perfect picture to support a new idea or just a visually and creatively stimulating way to spend the next hour, look no further.
