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
Formee is a framework to help you develop and customize web based forms The bright colors and beautiful character illustration on this page drew me in instantly.
Posted in Web Design → Design
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
The website for Wolf CMS, a freely downloadable content management system. I love the contrasting light and dark earthy colors, subtle single pixel strokes and nice background gradient.
Posted in Web Design → Community
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
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
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.
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I have seen enough messy desk designs to last a lifetime but usually they are an overhead view. This refreshing take on the idea utilizes a straight on view and shows tons of attention to detail. The artwork is really beautiful on the home page and continues throughout the various pages.
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This site is wonderfully dark with neat lighting effects that really add to the dramatic feeling. This aesthetic really showcases the artwork well in conjunction with a nice 3D effect. The typography is really nice and original as well and utilizes cufon to bring in custom fonts.
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Mega PDF is an e-book search engine. The page design uses rounded corners, shadows and transparency very well to create a nice, bright and very friendly page. This friendly, open design really invites you to give the app a shot.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
This site features a very bright color scheme, 3D art and lots of imagery. The result is a clean and very modern looking design that appropriately feels targeted at a young audience.
Posted in Web Design → Community
I really like the soft abstract background on this site and the rounded content area with its transparent border. The blue color scheme works great with the grays and makes for a really classy looking page. Overall, a refreshingly different design!
Posted in Web Design → Design
This page features a simple but effective gallery of images with a nice rounded corner effect. The solid black background really makes the images stand out nicely and sets the stage for the spotlight effect with the logo at the top.
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The private site of web developer Roger Burkhard. This site features beautifully muted and retro colors along with large bold typography for an instantly impressive visual impact. Be sure to stop by the footer to check out the excellently over-sized links and contact form.
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This is the online portfolio of web designer Blake Allen. This site design is all about one thing: typography. It is the primary, and nearly the only, design element on the home page. The simple, Helvetica-centric page uses high contrast black and white content and varying font sizes to distinguish content into a clear visual hierarchy.
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This design features a large slideshow as the primary visual. The bright colors stand out really well against the muted gray background. Notice that the little text above the slideshow has a letterpress effect but still remains live. An excellent use of CSS to create traditional Photoshop text effects.
Posted in Web Design → Software
This is the website of an iPhone game called The Last March. The character design and illustration here is really top-notch and the color scheme is a nice mix of cool and warm tones.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Enstore is a commerce platform that makes it easy to start your own online store. I absolutely love the beautiful and detailed icon design on this site. The color scheme is brilliant as well and really draws your attention to key areas.
Posted in Web Design → Software
This is a custom-design blog post from Design Informer. I really like the retro colors and typography at work here. The headline specifically is just excellent.
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The design portfolio of Patrick Monkel. This is a very minimalist display of artwork that is anything but. The simple design of the portfolio page really showcases the complexity of the artwork shown.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio