This site utilizes paper textures, a mix of both serif an san serif typography, and a nice large jquery slider. The overall design is simple but effective though there is definitely room for some improvement in the layout.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
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
I really like the letterpressed typography and mixture of soft and bold colors in this site. The brightly colored thumbnails have a nice rounded corner border and turn grayscale when you hover over them. If you stop by the site, be sure to check out the nice graphic in the footer. Another great feature is the "back to top" button that stays with you as you scroll.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Bright colors, nice typography and plenty of whitespace are the primary design features that stand out here. I really like the simple, stepped sticky note idea. These also feature a nice page curl rollover on hover.
Posted in Web Design → DesignPixelmator is a popular alternative to Adobe Photoshop. The page design really shows off the Pixelmator interface well and features plenty of really stellar icon design examples. As you scroll down near the bottom the layout is broken up in modules to clearly delineate features.
Posted in Web Design → Software
A really nice, clean web store with a perfect color scheme and beautiful product shots. The typography is really refined and the shopping experience quite streamlined. Overall, a refreshingly different e-commerce design.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Three60 is a two man digital design company with a decent sense of humor. I absolutely love the animated pencil rocket ship on the blueprint background. It is a completely original graphic that really makes the site memorable. Other nice touches include the slowly changing customer testimonials in the top right and the subtle background gradient.
Posted in Web Design → DesignThe "coming soon" page for an icon design competition. This wonderfully simple design features a color scheme straight from the beach and and excellent little boat icon. I also like the rounded corners and simple download button.
Posted in Web Design → Design
This site features a bright green background and funny illustrated characters hanging upside down from the top of the screen. If you visit the site, be sure to scroll down to the well designed footer featuring a tree and some Twitter birds.
Posted in Web Design → Design
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
The huge eyedropper is an original touch that really makes this design. Other great attributes include the bright green textured background and the funny little Twitter bird.
Posted in Web Design → Design
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
Idea Foundry is a series of web training classes based in Michigan. The color scheme is attractive and professional, the typography is well planned and the icon strip on the right side of the page makes for a quick visual read of a lot of information. Overall a pretty great design.
Posted in Web Design → Education
Plan my site is a New Jersey based web design firm. The busy sketches on the dark background are a nice touch as are the giant 3D arrows. The latter of these really grabs your attention as soon as the page loads and makes for a nice focal point.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
Formee is a framework to help you develop and customize web based forms The bright colors and beautiful character illustration on this page drew me in instantly.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Elegant Web is a web and logo design agancy. This site features a great old world look with rough paper textures and slab serif typography.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
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.
Posted in Web Design → Magazine
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.
Posted in Web Design → Community
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.
Posted in Web Design → Software