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
Liam McCabe
I love how simple and attractive this site is. The gray gradient background works perfectly with the inset box at the top. I also really like the integration of the Dribbble feed complete with animated hover effects. Great work!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
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
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
Picnet
This site using a large colorful gradient with an interesting overlay that makes it look pixelated. I love that this eye-tracking website is implementing its own not so subtle trick to direct your attention toward specific areas.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
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
Tap Theme
Tap Theme has a really great looking site with lots of large beautiful graphics shown on Apple devices. I also really like image border treatments and the big typography.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Richard Hinchcliffe
An attractive but simple portfolio site with some crazy work on display. I really like the hover effect on the thumbnails and the choice of fonts for the site.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
My Website Bites
A nice looking site that is oddly enough all about ugly websites. The design is fairly simple but the color scheme is quite nice and the photography used in the slideshow is humorously appropriate.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Weberica
The ornate typography treatment at the top is definitely the hero here. The entire page is actually quite fun though so be sure to browse it all, right down to the crazy footer.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Honda
Normally I hate car company websites but this one features a really sharp design that is completely clutter free and quite modern looking. The large photos really speak volumes about the products and grab your attentions and the bold red pulls you down to where there is more information.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
Awesome JS
This site features an excellent retro illustration theme that really makes for a beautiful page. I also really like the choice of fonts used throughout the site. They are both highly readable and quite attractive.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Mealeo
Mealo is a food ordering website with an awesomely clean and original design. The site is an elegant mix of fun and professional design that makes it immediately clear what the site does.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Holistic Designs
A nice typography-centric design with a very simple and effective layout. I like the treatment of the thumbnails and how they are used to bring color into the site.
Posted in Web Design → Design