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
Brett Chaney
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
Kean Richmond
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
Hunters Wineshop
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
Charlie Gentle
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
Plan My Site
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
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
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
Cool and the Guide
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
Spoon Juice
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
Tapplox Inc.
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
Simon Foster Design
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.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Landing Pad
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.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Creative Soap Box
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.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Marcs Design
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.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Miriel Design
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.
Posted in Web Design → Design
James Childers
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%.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Mega PDF
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
Fire Task
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.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Panda Biggs
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.
Posted in Web Design → Community