This design style is fairly trendy right now and I am beginning to see it more and more. The basic premise is a very modular, grid layout with large squares placed over a beautiful photographic background. The end product is really nice.
Posted in Web Design → Community
The header on this site steals the show. It features a great cityscape photo with an animated transition. Notice how the text on the photographic background has been treated. It is not easy to place text over such a busy photo but this solution is both easy and attractive.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Loopt is an App designed to help you discover the world around you and connect with friends. It makes a great feature of plotting important spots on the map using its customised icons. Bright, colourful, intuitive, and overall a brilliant effort.
Posted in Interface → iPhone AppA business card for Pixelflow Design that\'s a great example of how to immediately grab someones attention. I love the scratched look of the black background and how it throws the clear geometric logo into stark contrast.
Posted in Branding → Business Cards
This site offers free Adobe Fireworks resources for designers. The site has a fairly simple design, but the layout and colors are really nice and it does not look like your typical downloads site.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Sally Park is a useful parking App that sports a wonderfully designed interface. The use of blue in the GPS section nicely highlights your parking information while the rest of the interface uses a slick white and grey palette. I particularly like the brilliant use of custom buttons.
Posted in Interface → iPhone App
Bold and simple business cards for any designer. I love the faded use of the logo under the black section of the card. This card really makes an impact with its use of strong geometric shapes!
Posted in Branding → Business Cards
This great design features lots of big, bold elements that are really quite stunning. The most impressive feature here is how well the design automatically reflows itself when you narrow the browser window size. Some of the best fluid layout work I have seen!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
A supremely useful App for tracking your parcels and packages! The use of colour is extremely effective and stops the App overloading you with seemingly meaningless information. The functionality of this App is amazing and its intuitive interface only serves to make it more useful.
Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A simple but effective business card. The use of lime green against the black is great while the simple fading effects really make an impact. I especially like the detail on the back of the card and how it perfectly frames the important information.
Posted in Branding → Business Cards
This site features an excellently executed retro theme that is both fun and gorgeous. I love the use of colors and illustrations combined with the detailed stroke work on the edges.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Minibooks is the iPhone companion to the Freshbooks invoicing App and boasts a stunning interface. The bold buttons for \'Send Invoice\' and \'View Payments\' work brilliantly with the simple background. Invoices are nicely framed and well laid out while the use of drop-down menus helps to keep the interface uncluttered.
Posted in Interface → iPhone App
The perfect business card for an aspiring DJ - bright, colourful, and designed to make an impact. I like the use of the attention grabbing slogan on the front of the card in conjuction with the simple details on the back.
Posted in Branding → Business Cards
A bizarre but attractive portfolio site with plenty of stellar work on display. The heads are used as a recurring theme to show the relation of visual design to UX in each project. An interesting idea!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
A great App for keeping track of your expenses and outgoings. The simple icons are great and overall it uses the space well. The fuel gauge is a nice touch while the three tabs at the bottom keep the App effective and functional.
Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A classy business card for any designer looking to make an impact. The contrast between the front and back is great and the pink paint is a nice detail. I particularly like the use of a wallpaper design as the background for the card.
Posted in Branding → Business Cards
This awesome looking site has some very unique illustrations and makes excellent use of contrast. I particularly like the integration of mathematical symbols into the logo, a nice touch!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Keymote wirelessly controls practically anything on your Mac from your iPhone using shortcuts. Considering its powerful capabilities its interface is refreshingly simple! It\'s good that Keymote keeps itself intuitive by retaining standard UI buttons such as the plus sign used for adding a new shortcut. However I do like the design of the large buttons that allow you to create shortcuts.
Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A stylish business card that effectively uses a lime green to highlight the key details. I like the clear readable logo and the typeface on the back - the spacing of the letters makes it quick and easy to find the information you\'re looking for.
Posted in Branding → Business Cards