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
The giant photographic header is a beautiful element that immediately grabs your attention. Other nice touches include the pop of orange and the blurry transparency on page tabs.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
This attractive site is a showcase for flower arrangements. I like the brightly colored header as well as the wooden background and thumbnail treatments.
Posted in Web Design → 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
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
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
This site uses an awesome argyle patter in conjunction with a perfect color scheme and some subtle textures. I love the bold script font used here and the fixed background that makes the content seem to float on scroll.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
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
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
This site reminds of the first hints of minimalism in the 90s. I like the bold contrast and variation between the thick and thin lines. The modular format is interesting too and can be rearranged to your preferences.
Posted in Web Design → Design
This page is both incredibly fun and incredibly beautiful. The textures, color and illustrations are all perfectly executed and the tiki theme is hilarious. I love the Twitter bird with the mask and the little animated guys at the bottom of the page.
Posted in Web Design → Design
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 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
This is a super classy website with a bold black theme and lots of great work on display. The background texture is beautiful and the fixed header is a a neat touch.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
A nice looking site with lots of contrast and a primarily grayscale color theme. I like the big graffiti piece with the subtle use of texture and the logo badge in the upper left.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
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
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
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
This incredibly unique site features some awesome illustration work and super bright colors. Note the generous use of whitespace and the use of another color in the middle of the site to break up the content.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
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