Bacon is the Answer
- Category: Web design
- Industry: Personal project, Ecommerce
- Responsibilities: Design, HTML5 and CSS page builds, responsive design, copywriting
- Launched: October 1, 2011
- View This Project: baconistheanswer.com
Project Summary
I take great pride in the fact that the projects I work on and the websites that I build are useful, and in some cases very important, to the organizations and audiences they serve. That being said, this project does not fall into the category of “useful”, “important”, or even “sensible”. It does, however, fall squarely into the category of “fun.”.
Late one Friday afternoon, after a particularly challenging work week at Envision, myself and the other members of the Web team were amusing ourselves and unwinding from the week by creating a series of silly t-shirt designs. All of the designs praised the awesomeness of one of our particular co-workers (don't worry, it was all in good fun, and he gives it back to us ten-fold when it comes to good-natured ribbing), with one of the designs stating that our coworker was “the answer. What's the question?”. Laughing at the design, my colleague, whose name is also Jeremy, suggested that we replace the name of our coworker with “bacon” so the slogan would read “Bacon is the answer. What's the question?”. Just like that, an idea was born.
Driving home that evening, I couldn't stop thinking about the design and I cooked up the idea to create a “search engine” that would return a result of “bacon” no matter what question was asked of it. Useful? Absolutely not. Funny? Hell yes! I began designing the site as soon as I got home.
With a design ready for the site, as well as some t-shirts and an absolutely ludicrous “origin story” for the project/website, I decided to go forward with this idea with the help of Envision's other Jeremy. Which brings us to today - the launch of BaconIsTheAnswer.com.
So what's the point of this website, other than to perhaps sell a few t-shirts? The point is to have some fun. That's it. Ask the site a question and you know exactly what it will return as an answer, but when you see that word “bacon” staring back at you and you crack a smile - that is the point. And if you decide to buy a t-shirt while you're there or “like” the site on Facebook or tweet it to your friends and support our silly little idea, well then we thank you for that support and hope we did, indeed, make you smile.
Having fun and building something that makes us all laugh. You know, maybe this project wasn't so pointless after all?