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Hobo Lobo of Hamelin - Page 1
What a thing! This isn't just impressive parallax scrolling, it's a labor of love.
comic  web  design  inspiration  javascript 
15 days ago by gordonbrander
IWC Schaffhausen | Fine Timepieces From Switzerland | Home
Remarkable web design. Lots of understated and cool flourishes. I love the slightly parallaxed lines along the edges of the page, giving it a container definition, but a very light one.
design  inspiration  web 
17 days ago by gordonbrander
Dencity | Fathom
A very impressive visualization showing population density across the world as we head to 7 billion.

The world is amazing.
data  visualization  design  inspiration 
10 weeks ago by gordonbrander
25YEARLEGEND: A Legend of Zelda Indie Game Composer Tribute | OC ReMix
A huge, free collection of Zelda-inspired game music by various artists. Class act.
music  game  free  art  inspiration 
10 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Al Jarnow - FILM
Great conceptual work. Storytelling through pattern recognition.
art  video  design  inspiration  philosophy 
11 weeks ago by gordonbrander
The Popular Science Archive Explorer | Popular Science
A great visualization: chart any word to see how frequently it appears in Popular Science's archives.
data  visualization  design  inspiration  bdw2011 
november 2011 by gordonbrander
The Convergence
A nice HTML5 puzzle game about love, gravity and spikes that can kill you.
game  javascript  inspiration  html  canvas 
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Biophilia: Bjork Visualizes Music : All Songs Considered Blog : NPR
A great interview with Bjork wherin she discusses the creative process behind the iPad art/vis app that powers the Biophelia project.

What struck me especially is that she values idiosyncrasy itself. I think she sees something uniquely human in the dusty corners of creative endeavors. Indeed, I'm beginning to realize that just as our weaknesses give us character, so also the flaws in a work of art give it humanity.
You can use the tool of Western Civilization and be impulsive and intuitive and emotional -- and that, for me, creates a lot of hope.

Sometimes pointless delightfulness is exactly what the world needs.
art  design  development  inspiration  audio  interview  music 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
GlitchHiker - IGF video on Vimeo
Another @Vlambeer endeavor:
Players all over the world played to save GlitchHiker from extinction and failed: GlitchHiker is a game that has gone extinct. Every successful attempt at collecting more than a hundred points restored the games’ system resources globally and every failure slowly destroyed it.

As the game system withered, increased amount of glitches appeared in the graphics, music, controls and gameplay. As soon as the game would run out of its resources, it would go extinct and become permanently unplayable, not just for that player or for a limited time – it would go extinct for everyone and forever.
game  design  art  inspiration 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
VENUS PATROL
A new Kickstarter-funded publication on art-game design. Intro video has artwork by Superbrothers.
game  design  blog  inspiration 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Super Crate Box
Donkey-Kong-meets-platformer. A free indie game by Vlambeer, with worldwide online leaderboards. Wowowowow!
game  free  art  design  inspiration 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Jordan Mechner on video game design and more
The guy behind the original Prince of Persia game blogs profusely and answers reader questions about making games. He also created an e-book -- excerpts from his journals when he was developing the Prince of Persia game.
game  design  inspiration  learn  blog 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Kern Type, the kerning game
A game that scores you based on your kerning solutions, with HTML5, Javascript, SVG. Awesome.
typography  web  inspiration  javascript  svg  game  bdw2011 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Title Scream. Type + Graphic inspiration from 8/16bit games
Intro screens from low-res games. I love what a bit of constraint does for design.
art  design  game  inspiration  blog 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
the Movie title stills collection
A truly wonderful collection of stills from movies. Very in-depth.
design  inspiration  typography 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
Awwwards | The CSS website Awards
Lots of impressive work, very interaction/Javascript heavy. A bit like the old FWA awards site for modern web tech.
css  javascript  design  web  inspiration  html 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
Collection - Diesel > Denim & Jeans
Another Legwork production. HTML and Javascript. Impressive.
design  web  inspiration  javascript  html  css 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
Design View / Andy Rutledge - News Redux
Andy Rutledge redesigns the NYT without permission. I think many of the choices here are in the right direction: featuring authors of opinion columns, going big and visual for main stories. I like especially the strict separation, visually, of news from opinion
design  journalism  web  inspiration 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Journey Group
"Creative team that tells brand stories with design and journalistic curiosity." The interaction for this site is unexpected, pleasant and simple.
inspiration  design  agency 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
For the Love of a Good Line » Columns » Story Matters
A profession of love for typography. Great site design, too.
typography  blog  design  inspiration 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Shower
Great prototype by an Opera dev for an HTML presentation template.
html  learn  inspiration  css 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Digital: A Love Story
Computer:~ user$ "A video game in the spirit of WAR GAMES." --HACK --HACK --HACK
game  design  creativecommons  opensource  inspiration 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
Able Parris
Inspiring work. Very post-modern.
design  portfolio  inspiration  postmodern 
may 2011 by gordonbrander
Gravity Guy for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Another gravity-flipping game. This time with the "running guy" mechanic.
game  inspiration 
february 2011 by gordonbrander
VVVVVV on the Mac App Store
This game has a beautiful moveset and an interesting game mechanic: reverse gravity instead of jumping.
game  inspiration 
february 2011 by gordonbrander
STREET ART VIEW
Using Google Street Maps to catalogue street art around the world.
art  design  inspiration 
february 2011 by gordonbrander
Pure CSS3 Page Flip Effect
More lovely work by Roman Cortes. CSS3 experimental transforms and animation create a clean, smooth page flip.
css  design  development  learn  inspiration 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
Turing Machine Visualization
Nice visualization of Turing machine in processing.
design  inspiration  processing  java 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
Frank Chimero: Curation Culture
On the difference between creation and curation. To read again and consider.

I believe there is value in curation to the level that the curator himself brings to the topic and the purpose to which it is curated. This is why museums are fine (in the sense of fine art) and reblogging useless.
writing  design  inspiration 
may 2010 by gordonbrander
CanvasMol
Molecular visualization in Canvas
canvas  inspiration  html 
april 2010 by gordonbrander
T.shelf
Prototype geometric furniture made only of wood and zipties (no hardware!). Much cooler than you think.
design  inspiration  furniture  industrial 
april 2010 by gordonbrander
A Map of the Mines of Barnath by Sean Williams
The full text, online. Apparently okayed by the author (he links to it from his website).
book  scifi  fiction  inspiration 
march 2010 by gordonbrander
André Gottschalk
Really nice use of simple geometry and transparency.
design  illustration  portfolio  inspiration 
march 2010 by gordonbrander
Thinking for a Living
An amazing redesign. This is the first horizontal scroll I've ever appreciated.
design  interaction  web  inspiration 
february 2010 by gordonbrander
A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services
The BBC walks through the process of re-designing their website's visual system. This is a perfect example of how designing for the web is about creating flexible systems.
design  grid  typography  inspiration  learn  process 
february 2010 by gordonbrander
FRESH01
Cleverly playing with the scroll.
blog  inspiration  design 
february 2010 by gordonbrander
I'm Nikki Graziano
"I'm a photographer and mathematician". Dang good work.
photo  design  portfolio  inspiration 
february 2010 by gordonbrander
Adhemas Batista - I'm Selling Colors
Clever dimensional presentation of work, and wonderful work it is. Scrolling could be more responsive.
illustration  portfolio  design  flash  inspiration 
december 2009 by gordonbrander
Wieden+Kennedy
Holy hot tamales, that is one heck of an agency site.
advertising  agency  design  portfolio  inspiration 
december 2009 by gordonbrander
Subtraction.com: Really Basic Maths
Khoi Vinh gives a visual overview of the steps he went through to design his Basic Maths WordPress theme.
design  wordpress  theme  grid  swiss  inspiration 
december 2009 by gordonbrander
Hamish Hamilton
That is a wonderful website for a publisher.
design  web  inspiration 
december 2009 by gordonbrander
Perky Bros LLC
A great portfolio with a classic trademark look. Nice use of overlay and pattern.
design  inspiration  portfolio 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Kubrick Interview, 1966
He is so *precise*. "People do not react to abstractions."
video  journalism  interview  inspiration 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Photojojo: The Best Free Photos on the Web
Your guide to public-domain and free photos from all over the web. The Library of Congress, Life, etc.
photo  photoshop  free  creativecommons  stock  history  design  inspiration  resource 
june 2009 by gordonbrander
Hi, I’m Jason
Jason's pitch to 37Signals, resulting in his hiring. That is one *heck* of a pitch.
design  portfolio  resume  marketing  entrepreneur  business  inspiration 
may 2009 by gordonbrander
Bas Jan Ader
Performance artist who disappeared at sea. Gorgeous, stark modernist site, cleverly using flash.
flash  web  design  inspiration  art  video  person 
may 2009 by gordonbrander
Eight Films in Black and Red - a set on Flickr
Minimalist re-imaginations of movie covers in modernist minimal style. A prototype for my summer project?
design  inspiration  illustration  video  print  modern 
april 2009 by gordonbrander
CRW / Corporate Risk Watch
Crazy simple and gorgeous grid-based design.
design  web  grid  inspiration  typography  swiss 
april 2009 by gordonbrander
Black Estate Vineyard – Omihi Waipara. New Zealand Wine
Intricate and minimal grid-based design. Very evocative of Muller Brockmann. A clever play with layering elements (foreground and background playfully intertwine) causes the page to pop, keeping it from looking flat.
design  web  swiss  css  grid  minimalism  layout  typography  inspiration 
april 2009 by gordonbrander
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Million + images from the TIME archives, hosted and searchable by Google. Free for personal use.
resource  journalism  history  image  culture  inspiration  magazine  photo  learn 
march 2009 by gordonbrander
TED: Ideas worth spreading
Site for the TED conference. Creative commons video and audio of the talks.
conference  communication  computer  business  inspiration  creativecommons  video  audio  media  community  thinking 
march 2009 by gordonbrander
LittleSnapper
Design scrapbook software. Also ties in with a post-to-web service like Skitch.
design  web  tool  app  mac  screenshot  inspiration 
march 2009 by gordonbrander
Benjamin Lowy
Eerie lomo-esque documentary photography of Iraq, Chad and others.
journalism  photo  inspiration  portfolio  person 
february 2009 by gordonbrander
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