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
Brett Chaney
This site utilizes paper textures, a mix of both serif an san serif typography, and a nice large jquery slider. The overall design is simple but effective though there is definitely room for some improvement in the layout.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Casino Lemonade
This site features a beautiful retro design with an attention to detail that blows me away. All the borders and background art are really intricate and eye-catching, the typography is spot on, and the character art is excellent. Definitely one of the more successfully unique designs I have seen in a while!
Posted in Web Design → Misc
Maksimer
Bright colors, nice typography and plenty of whitespace are the primary design features that stand out here. I really like the simple, stepped sticky note idea. These also feature a nice page curl rollover on hover.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Pixelmator
Pixelmator is a popular alternative to Adobe Photoshop. The page design really shows off the Pixelmator interface well and features plenty of really stellar icon design examples. As you scroll down near the bottom the layout is broken up in modules to clearly delineate features.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Hunters Wineshop
A really nice, clean web store with a perfect color scheme and beautiful product shots. The typography is really refined and the shopping experience quite streamlined. Overall, a refreshingly different e-commerce design.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Three60
Three60 is a two man digital design company with a decent sense of humor. I absolutely love the animated pencil rocket ship on the blueprint background. It is a completely original graphic that really makes the site memorable. Other nice touches include the slowly changing customer testimonials in the top right and the subtle background gradient.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Iconfest
The "coming soon" page for an icon design competition. This wonderfully simple design features a color scheme straight from the beach and and excellent little boat icon. I also like the rounded corners and simple download button.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Cromulent Design
This site features a bright green background and funny illustrated characters hanging upside down from the top of the screen. If you visit the site, be sure to scroll down to the well designed footer featuring a tree and some Twitter birds.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Mocapoke
The huge eyedropper is an original touch that really makes this design. Other great attributes include the bright green textured background and the funny little Twitter bird.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Idea Foundry
Idea Foundry is a series of web training classes based in Michigan. The color scheme is attractive and professional, the typography is well planned and the icon strip on the right side of the page makes for a quick visual read of a lot of information. Overall a pretty great design.
Posted in Web Design → Education
Plan My Site
Plan my site is a New Jersey based web design firm. The busy sketches on the dark background are a nice touch as are the giant 3D arrows. The latter of these really grabs your attention as soon as the page loads and makes for a nice focal point.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
Elegant Web
Elegant Web is a web and logo design agancy. This site features a great old world look with rough paper textures and slab serif typography.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Cool and the Guide
A daily briefing on travel, trends & culture This site is beautifully minimal and really clean and sophisticated. Typography is definitely the main component of design here.
Posted in Web Design → Magazine
Spoon Juice
Spoon Juice is a beautiful iPhone developer website with a dark background containing a subtle spectrum, nice glowing typography and great icon design. The animations on the main slider are also really excellent. Each panel expands as you click on it and the icon within enlarges with a smooth effect.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Tapplox Inc.
This site features the heavy use of black and gray to attempt to create a classy look and feel. The result is an absolutely beautiful page with tons of visual interest in the form of subtle gradients and simple icons. Excellent inspiration for anyone interested in using black in web design!
Posted in Web Design → Food
Simon Foster Design
This site is the web portfolio of designer Simon Foster. Heavy use of contrast, over-sized headline, and planetary graphic come together to make this design a winner. Also, the font choices are just perfect to compliment the graphical style.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Woo Concept
This site is the online portfolio of Thibaut Ninove, a freelance web designer. I love the huge header, cool color scheme, and nice button design. This site does an excellent job at grabbing your attention and not letting go.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Landing Pad
Landing Pad is a gallery of well-designed iPad apps. The dark theme, leather background and bright helicopter icon work really well in this design.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Creative Soap Box
This beautifully clean design contains a large featured project that changes with a unique downward sliding transition when you hit the next button. The natural colors, excellent typography and rich icon design come together to from a undoubtedly attractive site.
Posted in Web Design → Design