Komodo Media » Inspiration http://www.komodomedia.com blog, webdesign, illustration & newsk00l javascript Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:28:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interviewing Mark Jardine ]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/06/an-interview-with-mark-jardine/ dConstruct 2009 dConstruct 2009 Design

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]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/06/dconstruct-2009/ Dragon Labs + Anand Sharma di_beakersGorgeous beakers at Dragon Labs. Click the image for a full view. Time for another inspiration post. This post is long, long due. I remember when I first saw Anand Sharma's work at Dragon Interactive. I was stunned by his clever gradients, pixel precision, cross-fading animation and level of detail put into everything. I remember wrongly thinking that his site used Flash because of the smoothness of his animations, and clever way of producing text shadows. No, he does it all in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. ]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/04/dragon-interactive-anand-sharma/ Squared Eye Squared Eye Holy flippin' hamsters, this site is beautiful. I don't know if I've seen a site that I love every "square" inch, but I sure do with Squared Eye. From it's calming hues, to it's sexy image preview tool tips, to it's subtle fading navigation, I love it all! I love the cartoony, yet professional feel - something that I don't even know if I know how to nail yet. With it's generous use of white-space, large fonts, smooth-yet-subtle animations and the whale with ear-to-ear grins (I guess I'm loving hyphens), and gratuitous use of Archer, I dig this site big time. Do check it out. Do tell them that it is hot. Do make a site that is original, fun and smooth like theirs. Do subscribe to this site's feed now, 'cause more inspiration is coming. Rock the free world.]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/03/squared-eye/ TimVanDamme.com timvandamme I'm going to write about a very obvious inspiration, which is Tim Van Damme's site: timvandamme.com. This site very obviously has design cues taken from Apple's design style, yet it feels it's own some how. Rarely do I see a site and am compelled to design based off of that inspiration. It takes something special, something I'm not even sure of the recipe for, yet something I love to spark me to model one of my own creations based off of that creation. Tim's site did that for me. I loved the simplicity and single focusedness of this site. I love that it serves one purpose. I love that it is clear and direct. I love that it is beautiful.]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/01/timvandammecom/ Weightbot Check out my most recent design inspiration, Weightbot.]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/10/weightbot/ Inspiration from Cabel I haven't been this inspired in a year, or around a year. Well, heck I don't know how long its been - but the last thing that inspired me this much was sneak peeks of Street Fighter 4's watercolor-y goodness. I was obsessed with the Street Fighter series as a youngster (maybe it was Chun Li), but enough about that. This post is about Cabel Sasser's wedding.]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/10/design-inspiration-from-cabel/ Eye-catching Illustrations I'm a sucker for a sweet illustration, especially a vector illustration if you can't tell. Every once in awhile I run across a sweet one and it really inspires me to get more detail oriented. I'm a details guy - that's how I roll when it comes to design at least. Here's a few of them that I've seen on the web lately... ]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/09/eye-catching-illustrations/ Revyver Labs Bryan Veloso's Revyver Labs To me Bryan has become such a great designer and I love the style of this site. From it's open spacious feel, to the slight transparent glow on his Gotham laden headers, I love it all. ]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/08/revyver-labs/ Museo I'd been waiting months watching Museo unveil on Jos Buivenga's site as he skillfully worked his craft. The timing was perfect and he released his Museo just as I was finishing my site. I just wanted to throw a shout out to him for his fine work on Museo... ]]> http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/06/museo/