Archive for the ‘design’ Category

• dConstruct 2009

  Jun 22 3 clearleft, design, Inspiration, sexy, simplicity

  

  Sweet mama, how can this page be so simple, yet so sexy?

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• Sign in with Twitter, Facebook, OpenID and LinkedIn

  Jun 11 62 downloads, Facebook, freebies, OpenID, Twitter

  

  You’ve asked. You’ve begged. Fine, you get it. Here is a revision to the sign in with Twitter and Facebook button set. This time, I’ve included 16px icons, 32px icons and 3-state buttons for signing in with Twitter, Facebook and OpenID. I’ll keep this brief and not rant like I usually do.…

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• Sign in with Twitter and Facebook Buttons

  May 10 23 design, downloads, Facebook, freebies, Twitter

  

  As social websites like Twitter and Facebook have become dominant forces in the social network scene and with both networks offering sign-in solutions using either of them, we are going to see “Sign in with…” buttons popping up all over the place. And why not? Why would I want to create yet another account in the account-soup that is the interweb today? I don’t! It’s a heck of a lot easier for me to sign into a site using my Twitter or my Facebook account than it is to go through a lengthy account creation process…

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• Dragon Labs + Anand Sharma

  Apr 21 19 Anand Sharma, design, Dragon Labs
  Gorgeous 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.

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• Vote for Komodo Media!

  Apr 15 98 competition, design, tweetie, wpwebhost

  

  Deja vu? No, this is a bit different this time around. Last time, I was in a contest hosted by WPWebHost for Coolest blog powered by Wordpress and I won! I gave away everything. That’s right, I gave away all of the prizes and I gave away the money to Intermountain Children’s Home . It was an amazing experience, made possible by you.

  I’ll make it short this time. Komodo Media is now in the “Best Wordpress Design Contest” running for best Hand-drawn style. That’s right baby. Komodo Media was all done by hand, no stock graphics here ;) This time, granted I win, I’m gonna keep the cash for a much-needed video card upgrade for my wife and I’s late night habits of video game playing. All I’m askin’ is for a vote.

  Will you vote for Komodo Media?

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• Adeptiv UI Iconset

  Apr 03 7 design, Fireworks, icon, Illustrator

  

  andCulture needed a smooth and silky set of 36 icons for an Adobe Flex web application that they had been working on. I was happy to provide them with this icon set and it was a great learning experience, as it was my very first icon set to design for Komodo Media.

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• Squared Eye

  Mar 26 8 design, Illustration, Inspiration, 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.

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• Best Wordpress Design Award

  Mar 21 16 contest, design, wpwephost

  I like contests. I love the adrenaline rush and the thrill of the competition. I love winning. I love losing. It’s fun either way and I dig a bit of healthy competition.
  Last time around, I won and gave it all away! This time, I think I’m gonna try to go for it and blow [...]

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• Sexy Music Album Overlays

  Mar 17 93 album, CSS, last.fm, Music, overlay, png

  
  It’s the social web now. We share everything, from our musical tastes, to the bacon avocado burger we ate for breakfast , to the very funny things we say and do.

  I want to show you how to style your music streams and give you some graphics to do so, cause let’s face it, it takes time to design things and it’s easier to use mine than yours ;)

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• On the Job Prowl

  Feb 06 11 full time, job, Life, remote

  I’m on the prowl. That’s right, I am looking for a full-time remote position and thought that announcing it on my site wouldn’t be a half bad way of doing so. I have come into a situation where I either will do full-time freelance for Komodo Media (yes, I am taking on work) or work [...]

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