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.
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An online store for natural remedies and medicines. The bright orange is a refreshingly unique choice that was risky but implemented well. The layout is clean and flows well for the reader.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
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.
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Spoon Juice is a beautiful iPhone developer website with a dark background containing a subtle spectrum, nice glowing typography and great icon design. The animations on the main slider are also really excellent. Each panel expands as you click on it and the icon within enlarges with a smooth effect.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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
A simple coming soon page for a new GTD Mac application. The simplicity here is perfect for the intentions of the page. The developers just want to give you a sneak peak so they avoid distracting you with lots of copy or feature explanations, just a single screenshot set against a dark background.
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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.
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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!
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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