Aran Down
I love the painted watercolor landscape background and the letterpress headline. Other great features of this design include the staggered portfolio pieces and beautiful tabbed image slider near the bottom.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
The Esthetik
This site features a really nice oversized header with a dark, noisy background, thin typography and tons of negative space. The content below is divided into clean, rounded corner boxes broken up into three columns. Stop by the work page to see a nice two column portfolio layout.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Yanis Markin
The portfolio of designer Yanis Markin. This beautiful site features excellent icon design and an oversized vertical image slider. There is also a really nice grid view that you can access by click the all designs button on the bottom of the page.
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David Fooks
This site is the portfolio of designer David Fooks. The black background and white objects contrast brilliantly and really catch your attention. Other great design elements include awesome icon design, nice and subtle dotted lines, and animated hover effects.
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Jon Victorino
This single page portfolio does an excellent job of organizing important information into a visual hierarchy that would be effective for potential employers and clients. The design is light and airy, with a nice CSS3 letterpress effect on the headline and a thick white border providing strong contrast between the photos and background.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Charlie Gentle
The portfolio of Charlie Gentle, a Web Developer working in Nottingham, UK. The dark background contrasts nicely with the large white typography and the white sketchy elements. I am a sucker for side scrolling sites so this one gets a bonus for using this method. Also, as you scroll through the site, the bokeh at the top is animated with a 3D parallax effect that is just excellent.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
Simon Foster Design
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
Woo Concept
This site is the online portfolio of Thibaut Ninove, a freelance web designer. I love the huge header, cool color scheme, and nice button design. This site does an excellent job at grabbing your attention and not letting go.
Posted in Web Design → Design
James Childers
The online portfolio of designer James Childers. This site features an strongly textured background and muted content and a perfect color scheme. All of this lends to the faded look that the designer is going for. As you hover over the images, their opacity slowly transitions to 100%.
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Blake Allen Design
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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Steven Little Design
The online portfolio of Steven Little. The large typography is very attractive and features a subtle letterpress effect. The navigation icons in the top right are also a nice touch and feature a cool spotlight hover effect.
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Monk Design
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
Anderbose
Anderbose is the personal portfolio of Brad Haynes. I love the dark theme, lighting effects, and clean grid layout displayed here. The node-based content works really well in this context.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin
The portfolio site of Tobias Ahlin, a web, print and icon designer. Aside from the beautiful work on display, I love the gray and black color palette and the dynamically reshuffling gallery.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Andy Shaw
The online portfolio of a UX designer from London. This design is super minimal featuring little more than an Apple display and some text. However, the layout was handled very well and the reduced content really draws your eyes to the scrolling portfolio.
Posted in Web Design → Design
AW Industries
Alexander's portfolio takes on a steel and purple hue, featuring a scrolling portfolio slideshow that appears to "hover" over the rest of the page. I also particularly like the contact page, which includes a postcard mockup, a rate card designed in the style of a till receipt, and a timeline showing how most design projects are worked through.
Posted in Web Design → Design
