Inspire Me.

Take a close look at the world, keep on doing so, and in the end it will lay bare for you all its cruelty and its ugliness. ~ Andre Bazin

Inspiring People/Companies

• Hey Indy – Amazing Web Designer with fresh ideas, a great eye for slick color palates, and a really neat pseudo street art style.
• Shelly Cooper Designs – Another amazing web designer, more of a "girly" vibe from her work, but she is a master of typography, and she has a keen eye for crisp clean design!
• Galpin Industries – Web Design Firm, amazing examples of typography, and a slick black and white style! Also has a great blog that talks about many of their design choices, and information on current web design trends.
• Brent Hartmann – This guy has a really great eye for texture, and he uses it flawlessly. His work really speaks to the idea that you can let aspects of the design speak for itself.
• Marc Thomas – Marc Thomas uses a ton of bold images and typography against a crisp white background in many of his designs, representing crisp, clean, simplicity.
• Heath Waller – This lady is SO RAD! She loves retro imagery, color palates, and typography as much as I do! I love her simple, funky, retro style!
• Kathryn Corneli – This girl is the queen of crisp and clean, her designs often incorporate simple, neat typography, with a POP of color to really add drama to important parts of each site she designs. And, she’s super young, so thats also in inspiration in itself!
• Red Antler – Ok I’ve actually had the pleasure of working with these guys a bit and all I can say is WOW! So fresh and so clean! I love their style, and they are great to work with! These guys know color theory like the back of their hand!
• Joshua Davis – Boy this guy can make some sick graphics. He uses a lot of repeating lines and shapes, and very intricate details to make some really gorgeous work with amazing color choices!
• Chuck Anderson – Chuck’s got some really cool examples of awesome light effects he uses a lot in his work. He’s got this bold electrifying style thats packed with colors and WOW factor!
• I Love Dust – This team of designers knows whats UP! They’ve got amazing crisp line work, and a sweet very hip style that’s also very unique, and their typography work is STUNNING!
• Paul Lee – Paul Lee is the master of line an angles. His style is apparent as his entire portfolio is cohesive with binding similarities. He has an eye for light and shadows that really makes his work pop.
• Kevin Lucious – This guy also LOVES vintage and retro inspired design. He uses a ton of retro inspired colors, and even animal heads! And he also has an awesome eye for texture!
• Chris Thurman – He has a very crisp, simple design for his own personal site, and the work that he does is very crisp, with great color pop!
• Forefathers Group – Oh, these guys are amazing, they have such a fun aesthetic, lots of vintage style vector based drawings. Love their typography as well.
• K4 Laboratory – This is absolutely epic design, I am so impressed with the whimsical style of this guys work. His splash page is absolutely epic, and his use of bright color is stunning!
• Mary Kate McDevitt – This woman is awesome! She does amazing illustrations, and she is a master of typography, and even does most her her lettering by hand! She has a fun colorful style that I can appreciate, and even hope to emulate.
• Joseph Alessio – This guy has an eye for typography, and he’s amazing at what he does. He’s also very young, and a young 20 something making it big doing what he loves is a huge inspiration to me!
• Ryan Scherf – Ryan also has some great simple, clear examples of typography on his site, an effective color palate, and GREAT textures.
• Seb Niark1 – Though his style isn’t necissarily what I would create, I can appreciate it, and I love his use of vibrant colors and basic shapes to create something visually complex and amazing!