Danstrog
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Favela
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Kike Riesco
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Alexander Rudalov
An attractive site with plenty of whitespace and a nice wooden background. I like the little arrows and paths drawn over the background as well as the continuing theme in the image slider.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Tijuana Flats
I cannot decide if this site is hideous or beautiful, but it is certainly unique! The out of control illustrations cover every inch of the long homepage and the head of the monster at the top pops off and stays with you as you scroll!
Posted in Web Design → Blog
Outmarked
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Dave Montgomery
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Andrew David
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
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
Panoetic
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Private Grave
An interesting site with a darkened photographic background and unique vector work. I love the logo for the site as well as the grungy tye at the top of the page.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Paul Wallas
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Webexpo
A nice looking site with an interesting mixture of structured and organic design. There is an overall theme revolving around a jagged squiggly line graphic that is repeated in different ways throughout the page.
Posted in Web Design → Design
VReplay
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.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Owen Shifflett
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Stratis Design
THis site features a nice blue theme with a subtle noisy textured background and some fun illustrations. The overall design is clean and effective with lots of little touches that go a long way.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Get to Build
An interesting site selling icons so the author can get to a design conference. I love the overall aesthetic of the site, especially the typography in the headline. The layout is nice and clean with plenty of whitespace.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Mischievous
A great looking design with custom typography and humorous photography. I love the contrast between the bright header and the dark content area.
Posted in Web Design → Design
RAE Lessons
RAE is an excellently designed web app aimed at teaching users to play guitar. The design is super clean and professional and makes heavy use of contrast through a primarily black and white color scheme.
Posted in Web Design → Music
Nebedniece
A great looking dark theme with a textured paper background and very selective uses of color. The hero on this site is the header. I love the large type and the colorful abstract vector.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio