I love illustrators. The ones I meet are weird as hell, but their creativity has no bounds it seems. Give them an idea and they will come up with an illustration. Give an illustrator a website and if he happens to have even a smidgen of good design skills lots of times you end up with a killer site and that’s what you get with James Mathias’s Leihu.

I dig the color scheme, typography and structure and after that there isn’t much else you need to like. Okay, okay yeah there are more pieces to a site, but if you nail those pieces things become a lot easier. This is graphical bliss for me.

Originally posted on May 22, 2006 @ 10:36 am

It’s Jared and it’s pink. Not much else to say.

Originally posted on May 25, 2006 @ 2:25 pm

When I think of wine I think of sophistication and what I love about Cork’d is that the design has a very sophisticated feel to it due to the color scheme and grid layout, yet it includes a very personal and fun vibe which should attract wine lovers to it. The main section on the homepage uses a basic two-column structure which effectively lets you know what the site is about and gets you started immediately if you are already familiar with the site.

Created by Tundro, a Dan Cederholm and Dan Benjamin it comes as no surprise that the site simply kicks ass in both design and functionality.

DotD: Design of the day.

Originally posted on May 19, 2006 @ 9:30 am

Images. When used correctly they can be the most effective aspect of any design and a requirement when your site revolves around them. Mojizu is that kind of site that sucks me in due to its images. I will quickly admit that the dual-colored background on the headers is annoying, but the rest of the site simply works for me.

Seriously, any site that can keep my attention for over a hour has to be doing something right, unless of course you consider me feeble-minded…*cough*.

I love how the homepage just gets right to it by showing a ton of character designs encouraging the users to dig deeper. The color scheme is smooth to my eyes and they did well on the individual sketch pages. It’s just those damn header backgrounds…

Originally posted on May 23, 2006 @ 11:52 am

Bryan Veloso is hiring at the next big social site company that will get bought up by some stupid media company. You heard it here first.

*sigh* I have to add more words to this entry just so that it doesn’t break the homepage. That’s what I get for not paying attention to where I am posting these trivial entries. I place the blame completely on Bob. Yeah, that Bob, the one in the corner.

Originally posted on September 30, 2005 @ 2:07 am