Ain’t this familiar? Tsk, tsk, tsk

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Personal, Rants

They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. Well, I was flattered at some point but not anymore. The photo above is a link to a website that is a blatant rip of Dawghouse Design Studio. This person loved my design so much and was so "insipired" that he copied EVERYTHING- from my images down to my Google Analytics code! He even tried to lamely imitate the my navigation style! I found it out because visits to this site showed up on my logs!

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Featured on Web Designer Magazine

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: News, Personal

It’s been a while since I’ve posted an entry, but here I am again! And I’m also here to happily announce that I was featured on Web Designer Magazine (Issue #149)! Copies of the magazine are available in the UK, Europe and Australia. How cool is that? :) Yea, I know – horrible photos – but I promise I’ll post better ones soon! :)

Thank you Web Designer Magazine!

10 Favorite Sites

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Inspiration

I thought of compiling these beautifully designed sites that I find really inspirational. I came across most of them from Design Galleries such as Best Web Gallery. Most of these are really my favorites and I’m a regular visitor of. I know these are only a few but I’ll try to create a longer list sometime soon. I am listing these in no particular order. Hope you find these inspirational, too:

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Bigfoot Entertainment MySpace

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Personal, Work

Role: design conceptualization to implementation; XHTML, CSS

Overview:Honestly, I don’t know how I came up with the concept of this design, but I kind of like how it turned out in the end :)

Thank You Guys!

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: News, Personal

I have been trying to redesign my site for several months and I was never happy with all, yes all, of the studies I came up with. I felt like the future was gloomy for me. It was hopeless. Every time I created studies for projects, it only took me one, two or three days at most ’til I settled for a design I was happy and content with. But as they say, a web designer’s portfolio site is always the hardest to get approval. But thankfully, after 4 agonizing months of frustration and 16 scrapped studies, I finally came up with something that I liked… And it got me rolling from then on…
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Intern’s Blog

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Personal, Work

Role: design conceptualization to implementation; XHTML, CSS

Overview: It took me a while to come up with this concept. One of those days that artists dread – when an artist experiences this so-called "creative block". I was browsing thru the web and came across a photo of a spray paint cannister and then I thought – why not create something like a graffitti? :)