Highwire
This beautiful site was recently featured in one of our design critiques. I love the layout, the bright colors and the attention to detail on the graphical elements. A great design!
Posted in Web Design → Misc
Simon Norton
This is a simple but effective blog design with a number of unique ides and nice design touches. The format of the blog stream is refreshingly different than the popular formats on the web today.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
HippoApp
This site features some really superb illustrations, animated background objects and a mouse-powered parallax effect. It is a beautiful design from top to bottom and the developers really went all out on the eye candy.
Posted in Web Design → Software
RBLmon
A pretty typical layout but still attractive. The textured color bar at the top is nice and I like the glossy button treatments.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
ShelfLuv
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
Fox Law
A nice looking corporate theme that plays it safe by using a very typical but also very functional layout. The thick color bar works well and highlights the jQuery slider perfectly.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
Mark Maloney
This site uses a giant iPad to display the designer portfolio. To mimic the functionality of the real iPad, you click and swipe to advance to the next image; a clever idea!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Panoetic
Panoetic uses a textured backgrounds and lots of random but interesting artwork scattered around the page to achieve and almost scrapbook-ish look. The animating thumbnail hover effect is particularly fun to play with and kept me busy for a solid thirty seconds trying to activate all of them at once.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Yiipu
This is a very simple site with two key design elements: typography and color. The type choices are really quite nice, I like the inset letterpress look. The colors are mostly uniform but still quite bright and friendly.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
Agile Style
An interesting take on the grid-based portfolio. I like the hover effects and the scattered client quotes. Those really help to provide comfort for potential clients who might be wary about hiring a designer they are not familiar with.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Robert Padbury
A strong but simple page design utilizing a single column. I love how big everything on the page seems. Every element on display takes up nearly the full browser window and the typography is well above normal.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
A Feed Apart
A Feed Apart is a twitter feed for all things related to the Event Apart event in Boston. I love the classy design of the page. The insets and shadows give a lot of three dimensional depthe to the design and the color scheme is spot on.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
Ivo Ivan
A simple site with a nice image scroller and icon based navigation. The noisy background texture almost feels like cardboard and the drop shadows are handled really well, giving the elements a floating look.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
TekRoc
A really sharp looking design that is very horizontal and uses lots of contrast to really grab the viewer. The images in the huge slider are fantastic, the textured black background is perfect and the six service section are handled very well. This is an excellent site to use for solid layout inspiration.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Smart Dog Digital
A nice looking professional site with plenty of bright color and graphics that really grab you. I love the incorporation of the logo into the scene and the little shadow under the icons that make them appear to float.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
PixMac
A nice clean design with large bold typography and a few solid attention grabbers. Nice touches include the ten million bubble in the headline and strong grid layout.
Posted in Web Design → Photography
Druck Deine Diplomarbeit
A really great looking site with clean lines, nice typography and excellent icon design. The treatment of the headline is particularly nice along with the large footer that contrasts heavily with the rest of the page.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
Edward Dark
This unique portfolio site features sort of a dark and mysterious design. It is a bit different than the type of design we normally feature and should inspire you to consider alternate styles when creating something that really fits your personality.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Dan Wiersema
This site features a beautiful and unique underwater theme with excellent illustrations and lighting effects. The vertical navigation is a nice touch along with the bubble over the head of the Twitter bird.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Jon Victorino
This single page portfolio does an excellent job of organizing important information into a visual hierarchy that would be effective for potential employers and clients. The design is light and airy, with a nice CSS3 letterpress effect on the headline and a thick white border providing strong contrast between the photos and background.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio