In celebration of our partnership with KoRnSRC.com as well as the new album (in stores 12.06), AwesomeStart has finally delivered: The Korn Start Page.
Say what you will about these guys, but Korn was a band I grew up with. Follow the Leader was my very first album, and I wouldn’t have ever picked up a seven string guitar had I not heard the low growl of Blind. In fact, I owe my work with The Birthday Massacre and my job with Lunarclick to Korn. Naturally, doing these guys justice was no easy task.
This page is a bit different from our usual designs, and that’s probably going to be the first thing our users notice. After scraping over ten different designs of my own and turning down various submissions, I knew we had to try something else.
How do you please fans of a band that’s produced six albums? Ten years of music? You can’t play favorites here. There was no basing the page on a album as we’ve done in the past. I tried to take a nod from Julie’s popular designs, but I ran into another problem. Last year, Korn’s lineup changed for the first time. With five albums already under their belt, should I include include the classic lineup or support Korn’s new image with the current lineup? And then there was the constant issue of bandwidth and load time. With over a thousand requests for this theme, It promised to be our most taxing page yet.
What I decided on was a simple look, centered around the Korn logo. The colors I used were pulled from the “Here to Stay” video (one of my favorites). TV static has been one of the few constants in Korn’s own desisn, and so I used that idea for the background. I chose to make the logo the focus of the page, so there is no traditional AwesomeStart box and the links are at the bottom of the screen.
Not everyone’s going to like it, but it’s hard to grant a thousand requests with one theme. At the end of the day, our team is satisfied with it.
-Eric