Terralien
Stylegala's comment:
A living metaphor in illustration, "the difference between night and day". If you notice the foreground illustrations are clearly in the daytime, while the background presents a starry night... Looking for a reference on the site to this design enigma, and I couldn't find one. Is the marketing dept. over there at Terralien trying to slip one by us then?
The layout is not your standard header, two-column layout, and then footer, or is it? There are some smart aethestic design choices that spice up the look of the layout on the various site pages. A super easy to navigate site, with a plain text navigation placed above the free-form light green header swoosh.
The layout gives each element a good amount of space, and doesn't feel crowded in. This visual hierarchy gives the viewer the time to leisurely scan the content. Where some sites fall down with each item screaming to be seen, and all bunched together. A back-end for the site reportedly uses Radiant CMS with SimpleLog being the app of choice for blog duties, both built with Ruby-on-rails.
A fun site and design by a decidedly geeky bunch of web developers and Ruby-on-Rails fanatics, the site offers the everyday "non-rocket scientist" the opportunity to launch the web application of their dreams by successfully teaming with the qualified developer/designer talent to make it happen. The site makes me want to buy-in to the dream of dreaming big, now if I only had that million dollar idea! If you are one of the ones who are lucky enough to already be "dreaming in code", you might still want these guys on your side to knock out a cool, clean, consistent design. Design credits go to John Long (design & coding), Matt McCray (illustration), and Nathaniel Talbott at the bridge. Ship's log Twenty-Oh-Seven, Five, Oh-One...
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