Black Rabbit
This site features great contrast, beautiful typography and lots of really nice subtle design touches. I really lie the dark, noisy background and the gallery of portfolio pieces. There is also a bit of an Easter Egg in the site, can you find it?
Posted in Web Design → Design
Web Design Sketchbook
The web design sketchbook is a book containing various tools for mocking up websites. The website features a nice a simple design that showcases the product well. It is nice to see such a simple layout applied to a product website, which are commonly quite busy.
Posted in Web Design → Design
The Creative Way
I really like the colorful header graphic, glowing logo typography, and centered iMac graphic. Overall a really eye catching design that is laid out well despite being a little busy.
Posted in Web Design → Design
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
Pulchry
This design features huge typography and a slightly transparent background screened over a blurry photo. The dark header contrasts nicely with the white background and the simple vertical navigation seems just right for the design.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Visual Craftsman
This site features a wonderful vintage look with beautiful but subtle illustrations and typography. The single column layout works perfectly and the navigation blends beautifully with the aesthetic of the page.
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
Dreikelvin
This site features a reased and torn paper background that is selectively applied and not at all overdone. I also love the bright colors, single strip image slider, and perfect footer design.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Colorful Visuals
The web design here is fairly simple, just a gray background and a simple grid layout. However, the artwork on display here is remarkably attractive. Definitely a great site to add to your inspiration list!
Posted in Web Design → Design
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!
Posted in Web Design → Blog
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Assisted Serendipity
This clever site uses FourSquare to tell you if the male/female ratio is in your favor at a given location. The undoubtedly feminine site uses pink gradients and curvy fonts to clearly target the fairer gender. I love the little map graphic with a single 3D building.
Posted in Web Design → Community
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Ed Nacional
A very simple but attractive design that contains some nice subtle graphical flavor. I love the single pixel line and the connected flag on the left side of the page, the header that stays with you as you scroll and the unexpected flash of bright orange when you hover over a link.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
70folk
This site features an excellent old time, grayscale look and feel with dramatic photography and minimalist design elements. Only the homepage is featured above so be sure to stop by the site and click around to see the design style continued in different ways throughout the other pages on the site.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Scriptmatix
Scriptmatix is a software company specializing in business solutions. The layered website showcase is attractive and I like the typefaces that were used. The large red button is a bit awkwardly placed but stands out well and successfully grabs your attention.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
Tuhin Kumar
A nice minimalist design with lots of gray and white, thick but subtle borders, and really excellent typography throughout. In addition to the strong use of fonts throughout the design, the artist has built and impressive typographic portrait of himself.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Acosmin
This is one of the best site designs I have come across in a while. The colors, textures, theme presentation, and button designs are all beautifully designed and come together to make a page that is completely unique and a pleasure to look at.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Exotics RTC
The layout could admittedly use a little work on this site, but i really like some of the features of the design. The icons in the top right are simple and effective, the images have a nice sliding effect on hover, and the boxes of content near the bottom of the page are very well designed.
Posted in Web Design → Sport
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