This site uses dramatic photography and impressive lighting effects to capture your attention. The busy background made creating readable typography difficult but the designer handled the problem like a pro and has created a beautiful and readable page.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
This site features a very classy dark theme with beautiful colors and a nice, large image slider of recent work. I like that the images in the slideshow have actually been designed so that they give the illusion of changing the layout on the page. A great effect!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
This page contains example after example of beautiful design practices. The typography, graphics, image treatments, button design and just about everything else are all very attractive and fit the bright sophisticated theme perfectly.
Posted in Web Design → Community
Dropr is a new site for creating multimedia-drive portfolios. The design utilizes an attractive and ornate illustration style with colorful animated raindrops falling from floating sketchy clouds.
Posted in Web Design → Design
GogoThemes hosts both premium and free WordPress and HTML themes. Their site design is very simple and clean while remaining effective. A large slider displays the products on sale and the sections of content below are distinctive and attractive.
Posted in Web Design → Design
This site features an amazing full screen illustration of an octopus at the ocean sketching both on paper and on a tablet. It sounds ridiculous but the execution is stunning. The use of color and lighting effects is truly masterful.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
An absolutely beautiful site with an amazing rendering of a swiss army knife comprised of design tools. The page has been really stripped of content to highlight the large graphic. The site offers a cool freebies section that you should check out as well!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
A nice looking grid-based portfolio that changes color every time you refresh the page. The hover effects drop the color overlay and show the artwork in its true form. A nice effect that really brings focus to where the mouse is.
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A very simple design that relies heavily on typography and bold, oversized statements. The Dribbble and Sketchbook portions are definitely the highlight of the page as they bring in some much needed imagery.
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A dead-simple design that is quite attractive while featuring little else that a large slideshow of recent work. I particularly like the subtle 3D effect that has been applied to the boxes at the bottom of the page.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
An awesome looking site with beautiful illustrations and typography work. I really like the Ballpark script used for the headings as well as the subtle use of texture on the main banner.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Recurse is a web app for designers to show off flat design ideas as if they were a website. I really like the wooden background in combination with the stacked paper look. A great design!
Posted in Web Design → Design
A great looking site with a nice big image slider and beautiful typography. I really like the color scheme and the simple nature of the icons near the bottom of the page. Overall, a really great design.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
A wonderfully retro design from BuySellAds advertising their new AdPacks program. The artwork really nails the time period they are shooting for and once you start looking at the finer details you can tell that they put a lot of work into the design.
Posted in Web Design → MiscThis site is an absolutely beautiful online store selling icons. The theme is a set of shelves and every icon set is displayed in a custom box design. The Photoshop work here is fantastic and you really must click through and check it out.
Posted in Web Design → Design
This site uses a super simple minimalist layout, which really highlights the attractive imagery. I like the restrained use of color and the repetition of the single color for emphasis in all the right areas.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
This site advertises an upcoming tech conference with some major speakers. I love the use of circles and contrast to really grab the attention of the user.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
A beautiful musician site with a full-screen photographic background and an animated line that jumps with the music. The texture placed over the background really compliments the black and white photo well.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
A nice looking corporate design that is quite attractive while remaining clean and professional. There are lots of little touches that go along way. Subtle uses of texture, shadowing and lines really finish out the design.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
This site builds a selection of books for you instantly as you type in a query. The design is very much like that of the Apple iBooks interface with a nice wooden bookshelf that displays cover art, often with a Kindle peeking out from behind the book.
Posted in Web Design → Misc