Icon Shelf
This 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
Redesign Ltd
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
Media Surgery
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
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
Eco Vitta
A great looking coming soon page with an awesome nature theme. Notice how the design incorporates several rich textures to really push the theme.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
Leslee Mitchell
This site is an absolutely beautiful photography blog with an awesome collection of work and a brilliant layout. The little graphical banners and the old-style typography really finish of the design and give it a classy feel.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
Pebble Design
This site has an absolutely beautiful design with perfect colors, textures and graphics. The content in the header automatically slides up in a smooth transition and is an excellent display of all the services offered by the company.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
TilleyDesigns
This site uses a simple but effective design with a jQuery slider header and another for the content area. The use of sliders allowed the designer to cram a ton of content on a single page in a nicely designed manner.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Market Restaurant
This site design is an awesome combination of color, texture and photography. Notice that the design is not just attractive but highly functional. The restaurant hours are placed right on the homepage because they are probably one of the main reasons people stop by the site.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Design Zoom
I like the boldness of the design here with the huge letters and colored circle. The single page format is nice as well, as you click to each section you can see that it was given as much attention and thought as the first.
Posted in Web Design → Design
MailChimp
This page takes the MailChimp retro branding to an awesome extreme. It is covered from top to bottom with excellent texture, typography and photographs that are all period perfect for the design style.
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
Charity Water
This is a beautiful site with a blurry photographic background and lots of contrast. Notice how the designer uses eye contact to draw you in and keeps you interested with large, stunning numbers about the project.
Posted in Web Design → Community
Branding & Web Design
This site features a flying sea turtle island with a windmill on its back. How cool is that? In addition to this crazy graphic, I like the textured background and use of all caps in the headers.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
AmazeeLabs
This page showcases some really creative design talent and a unique concept. I like the illustrated look of the typography and the giant lightbulb. The bright colors and rich texture also round out the design very nicely.
Posted in Web Design → Design
One Page Wonders
One Page Wonders is a really unique looking web design gallery showcasing single page sites. The treatment of the page previews is really nice: I love the large vertical thumbnails and the ticket theme.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Claudiu Cioba
The design above is a really great looking under construction page from the awesome designer Claudiu Cioba. I love the typography and the use of circles in the design. The overall effect is classy but in an aged sort of way.
Posted in Web Design → Design
La Case Cu Chef
This site has a ton of detail work that is really nice. There are lots of subtle effects in textures, strokes, shadows and points of color that really finish off the design nicely.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Miralize
A nice bold design with lots of big elements. Normally I would not be crazy about using all caps through the entire site but it works well here with the bold condensed font.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Eight Hour Day
EIght Hour Day is a design and illustration studio with a unique and attractive body of work. I love the illustration style found all over the website and their work. The choice of typography and colors is spot on and provides a great compliment to the images.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio