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Mcdonalds

Mcdonalds really stepped up to the plate with their most recent website design. It is modern, clean, and uses superb food photography extensively. By ditching the clutter and letting the food be the hero, they really highlight their products well.

Batebox

The messy desk look has sort of been done to death but this site pulls it off much better than most. The wooden texture is really well done and the all the Photoshop work is quite impressive. The bottom portion has some nice shadow effects you should check out as well.

Isabelle Ribeiro

Great use of color and texture to create a background with a subtle hint of reality. On a photography site you simply cannot go wrong with a large slideshow front and center. This one showcases her work very well and succeeds in grabbing your attention immediately.

Incoming

This is a great site featuring a dark and colorful page design feels really unique. The icon is superb and the color scheme is spot on. Overall a great piece of design.

A Feed Apart

A Feed Apart is a twitter feed for all things related to the Event Apart event in Boston. I love the classy design of the page. The insets and shadows give a lot of three dimensional depthe to the design and the color scheme is spot on.

Vivo Group

Giving your site a huge full bleed photo slideshow is a simple trick with a big impact. I love the images used here and the minimal sleekness of the whole design. They let their work speak for itself and it does a great job of doing so!

Wear Wolves

This site features a beautiful black design with a large image slide taking center stage. I love the bright colors, bold uppercase headlines, and running countdown at the top of the screen.

Inertia Visual Culture

This is a neat portfolio site where you flip through a book to see the past work of the agency. The wooden background is a nice implementation of texture, the UI is great and the site is just fun to play with!

Rocketlance

A nice looking site with a simple but attractive rolling hills illustration. Nice touches include the muted color palette, excellent rocketlance logo and the background fill on the headline.

Evan Eckard

A nice dark theme with a fading texture background and mixed typography. I like the unique navigation design and the large work samples.

The Wisdom of Bees

The Wisdom of Bees is a book that uses the metaphor of a bee hive to teach practical business lessons. The wonderfully simple site features simple but perfect illustrations, a bright yellow background and well chose typography. If you watch for long enough, one of the bees flaps his wings!

Casino Lemonade

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!

Pixelmator

Pixelmator 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.

Idea Foundry

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.

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