Lowercase sound is the name given to a new genre in electronic music that is so extremely minimalist, it is almost silent. So when Josh Russell, who runs leading lowercase record label, needed to redesign his label's website, he chose a look based on the bare-bones, black-and-white interface of Apple's famous System 6 operating system.

System 6 was the Macintosh operating system circa 1989, the one that fits entirely on a single floppy disk. System 6 is instantly recognizable, with a simple, elegant, black-and-white interface. For some, System 6 is the finest computer operating system ever made – the classic computer interface – the one that made the Macintosh famous as 'easy to use.' Clicking around the site is exactly like navigating the old System 6 desktop. Different parts of the site are represented by familiar Macintosh icons. Adobe photo cs shop for mac. The icon for a floppy drive links to the main index page.

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A printer icon goes to the reviews page. The long-forgotten icon for switching floppy disks – a pair of floppies connected by arrows – leads to a library of MP3s.

And instead of advancing from page to page as in a traditional site, the Bremsstrahlung site recreates the tiling windows of the old Mac interface. Click on an icon and the page pops up as new window, stacked on top of the old one. To back up, the user clicks in the little square box in the window's top left-hand corner, just like an old Mac.

Its designer, Christopher Murphy, painstakingly created the entire site pixel by pixel in MacPaint and Photoshop. MacPaint is the black-and-white painting program that's one of four basic applications that came preinstalled on old Macs. While it appears simple, the design was in fact incredibly demanding.

Each page of the site is made of upwards of 20 Photoshop layers. 'I certainly didn't take straight screenshots,' Murphy said. Murphy did some of the work on an old Mac Classic he found in a dumpster; some was done on a brand new Titanium PowerBook. 'In my studio I have one of the oldest Macs sitting alongside one of the newest Macs, and they're both used equally on a daily basis,' Murphy said.

'Most of my work is pixel-based, and the Classic is incredibly fast because the software footprints are so, so small.' Murphy runs, an independent record label, design shop and publishing house in Belfast, Ireland. 'The point was to take the subject matter from one medium – the clean, digital perfection of the screen, to another – the less-precise world of traditional drawing and painting,' he said. Murphy beat out different designers for the Bremsstrahlung website redesign because Russell liked Murphy's sense of stripped-down design. 'It's clean and minimal and goes with the music,' Russell said. 'It has similar aesthetics to lowercase sound.