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.
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Bright color and bold typography make this design a definite winner. I love the unique idea for displaying the services being offered and the large social links at the bottom.
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This site uses huge typography in the header to make a unique statement and grab your attention. The layout is nice and clean with bold use of contrast throughout. Overall a beautiful site.
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A nice minimal design with a heavy emphasis on the work being displayed. The page was designed using the 960.gs and has a super tight alignment that really gives it that clean and modern feel.
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This site is the portfolio of designer and student Chris Kinsey. The mixture of bold condensed and script fonts in the headline is a really nice combination. I also like the color scheme and the refreshingly different layout of the thumbnails and descriptions.
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An extremely simple but quite attractive gallery page featuring a large banner at the top followed by a series of thumbnails. I love the text treatment in the headline in conjunction with the use of shapes and subtle textures.
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This site uses attractive typography and bold contrast as the main features of the aesthetic style. I like the rough painted edge of the header and the mixture of old style and slab serif typography.
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The layout is basically a simple grid of thumbnails but I really like how the designer styled it. The thumbnail treatments is really nice and I like the oddly thin column of images on the textured background.
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This website has a wonderfully simple layout that reminds of of really classy design in the 90s. I like the centered focal point with the stylish typography and abstract shapes.
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This site features an awesome chameleon graphic to convey the idea that the designer is adaptable. I love the artwork, typography and colors used here. Definitely a great site design!
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This site features some beautiful typographical artwork that has a cool depth of field illusion. Notice how heavily the designer uses contrast to grab your attention in both the header, main image, and dark inset type.
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A fairly simple but attractive portfolio page with a horizontal image slider as the main visual element. Note the repetitive use of the dot pattern and the generous use of whitespace.
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This page header is bursting with awesome graphics screened and faded onto the background texture. I like the mixture of city and nature graphics in the same space. This reinforces the coexistence element of the message.
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This site utilizes very subtle amounts of texture in the background, large thumbnails, minimalist icons and awesome web type. I particularly like the shadow treatment on the gallery thumbnails as well as the script font used on the active state of the navigation.
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This site uses lots of rich textures and beautiful colors to create a really attractive theme. The grunge effects are applied in jsut the right amount and in just the right places and the icons are kept simple to fit in with the overall feel of the page.
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I love how simple and attractive this site is. The gray gradient background works perfectly with the inset box at the top. I also really like the integration of the Dribbble feed complete with animated hover effects. Great work!
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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.
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A simple but effective portfolio site that makes great use of a Twitter feed. I like the typography displayed here and the muted grayscale color palette.
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This simple but stunning web page uses high contrast graphics and deep colors to grab your attention. The hot air balloon is a nice touch and I love that big headline with heavily recessed type.
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A really great looking portfolio page with super thin typography, a subtle background texture and even a little bit of humor. I love the contrast of the yellow on the black. These two colors always make a bold statement when combined and the result here is a fairly classy theme.
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