corporate website references

For a couple projects I am currently working on, here are a couple resources with compiled lists of well-designed corporate websites:

Trackerz.com:



and this blog posting is a bit dated at this point, but hey, the designs are not too awful (yet):

Rubiqube.com

COLOURlovers unite!

Here's a cool-orful website, Colourlovers.com, which is a "color and design community for creative inspiration."



What's cool is you can search sections to see what color trends are happening on the web and even in magazine covers:


You can also just browse the over 1 million colors they have on this site, as well as the thousands of patterns and color palettes. You can create your own colors, palettes and patterns and let others in the COLOURlover community vote on them.


I feel like choosing a color palette and painting all the boring white walls of my apartment now.

argentinian inspiration

I was checking out the Design*Sponge blog and saw this post about Argentinian artist, Lucas Rise, which was inspiring to me in a few different ways.

First, he paints these vibrant, colorful cabinets in latin, tribal, kaleidoscope-like patterns that are really fun and whimsical. Great inspiration for furniture painting projects or even mural compositions.



Such intricate detail:


But then, when I went to his website, even that was designed totally in line with his overall style and aesthetic.


His own design influences are from carnaval, the circus, and the park, and the combination of patterns and colors on his site--although very busy--still works for me. He uses a few different, stylized fonts, but they complement each other and still feel fun on the site.




Celebrate bold color, complex patterns, geometric shapes and energy!