Dan Mall is an award-winning interactive art director, designer, and developer. He is an enthralled husband, Senior Designer at Big Spaceship, technical editor for A List Apart, and former singer/keyboard player for contemporary-Christian band Four24. Dan writes about design and other issues on Twitter and his industry-recognized site, danielmall.com.
Read my interview with Dan Mall.
Photo by Dustin Diaz on Twitter @ded.
It’s apparent that you’ve been a great designer for years, but why the recent success?
Good question. I ask myself that all the time! Well the obvious answer is Weightbot. Little did I know that the day I started designing a weight tracker on the iPhone would change my career so drastically. And I think [...]
Sweet mama, how can this page be so simple, yet so sexy?
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.
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 this site’s feed now, ’cause more inspiration is coming. Rock the free world.
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.
Jon Hicks always amazes me. I’ve always loved his design style from the first time I saw his site, about 3 years ago. I don’t know if it is his clever use of color, simplicity, or retro flair – possibly it is the vector nature of his work that draws me in, but [...]
Maybe it’s the rainbows. Maybe its the bright colors. Either way, I love James White’s bold art.
Here’s one of those sites that doesn’t scream at you. It doesn’t have to. Jon Tan truly is a master of typography and shows exactly how a designer can pull off a beautiful site, with very few images and a few colors…
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