Christmas Biltmore
This site features some beautiful vintage-style design with a lot of attention to detail. The typography, textures, colors and patterns are all spot on and really work well together.
Posted in Web Design → Community
Alinga
The colors, textures, typography and layout on this site are all very well done and the overall effect is quite attractive. I like the use of plant life wrapping around the main slideshow and the expert use of jQuery throughout.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
ACME Creative
This illustration-centric site has some awesome graphics, colors and even a hint of texture. I love the simple layout with the heavy emphasis on imagery and the use of a bomb to represent ACME, a term that makes me think of Loony Toons!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
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
Wawa Coffeetopia
The colors and swirly artwork on this site are a perfect visual suggestion of coffee and the photographic elements and textures have been skillfully combined in Photoshop. Overall, it is a nice looking site that feels unique while remaining easy to use.
Posted in Web Design → Food
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
1Love
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.
Posted in Web Design → Community
Inspiredology
Insrpiredology is an awesome blog with an awesome new design. The header illustration is stellar and is both humorous and quite impressive. Also, the post format is really clean and easy to follow and the footer is quite well done.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
Ithaca Events
Busy textured design is not easy to pull off but this designer did a great job. I love the combination of the bright colors with the grunge textures.
Posted in Web Design → Community
Who Is Leon
This site uses an awesome vintage photograph theme with birds and clouds. The clouds provide an animated background which stays fixed when you scroll as the foreground content glides over it. A nice effect!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
This is All I Do
This is a really unique portfolio site. I love that the designer took a grainy photo and just went with that aesthetic. The typography is brilliant and the page looks outstanding. A really awesome spin on minimalist design!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Collision Labs
I love everything about this design. The bright background color, the grunge graphics, the subtle use of texture, it all comes together beautifully. The typography is also quite nice. Condensed fonts often look stylish in all caps and I think it works particularly well for this design.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Idyllic Creative
A bizarre looking site with silly illustrations of various squatty little monsters. Apart from the fun illustrations, I like the textured background, smooth curves, and relatively simple layout.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Capsule CEO
Capsule CEO is a humorous iPhone app intended for business professionals. The site design uses unique (almost creepy) illustrations and bright colors to grab your attention. The site does a good job of reflecting the non-serious nature of the app.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Daggerfin
This site features an excellent textured background and nice muted color illustrations. It also has the coolest scrolling idea I have ever seen. The graphic at the top stays with you as you scroll but appears through differently shaped holes in the background texture. Stop by and try it out!
Posted in Web Design → Design
Veerle
This beautiful page is the new Veerle blog redesign. I cannot say enough about this redesign. The colors, textures, illustrations, typography, all come together to make this truly stellar example of professional web design. Great job Veerle!
Posted in Web Design → Blog
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
Clear Ideaz
I love the oversized graphics and typography on this page. Also, the ragged vertical navigation area is really unique and grabs your attention quickly. Visit the page and check out the subtle light bulb animation on the top left of the site.
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
Grid Based Web Design
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.
Posted in Web Design → Design