Website / Identity / Blog

TNTpixel.com

The second iteration of my personal site. The idea behind this design was centered around the color yellow, as a vibrant, playful theme. My main intention was to keep strict order and simplicity to the overall design, so all graphic elements were kept as simple as possible.

Text takes an important role in this design, as it creates the overall structure to the layout. My intention was to showcase what I thought was a beautiful interaction between the main color selected and a complementary color for the main copy text.

This site was built on Expression Engine, and its main feature was a Blog about web design, programming, some tutorials, etc. Unfortunately I wasn't very good at maintaining the content for the Blog, but that's another story.

I created a few graphics for this design myself. I tried to spice up the visual interest and increase the recognizability of the site by using very clean, yet highly distinctive designs. I really enjoy the way the stick of dynamite is highlighted at the top — which you can also see in this design right now :)

I was fortunate enough to be picked for a number of showcases for this design, including Smashing magazine (twice).

This blog is still live, but I've decided to be honest with myself and admit that I won't be posting anymore.

Website / Identity / Blog

Game On!

Game On! is a facebook application that I am currently developing.

The core concept is still evolving and maturing, but in short: it's a video game social network. I came up with the idea for a site in which you could compare games with your friends and alternatively get game recommendations from others. I wrote a recommender system as well that takes into account your previous game history and determines good matches for you.

The design was inspired in the glory days of 8-bit gaming, so I ultimately decided to include randomly selected footers for that extra nostalgic kick!

I wrote this site in Rails, and it uses the whiskeymedia API for the source of information. I wrote a neat rake task that fetches new data weekly to keep my records up to date.