Billy\'s Downtown Diner
A brilliant restaurant site with an active header that brings the street to life. The way the menu bar and logo use perspective to jump out at you is great! I also particularly like the use of colour set against a desaturated background.
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Ally Creative
A very stylish site with an intuitive layout. The \'Ally\' logo is a great piece of design while the ever-changing central picture holds your attention. I particularly like how the large amount of empty space surrounding the header allows your attention to be drawn to the focal point of the site.
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Nagoya
I do not have a clue what this site is about but I think it is beautiful. I love the big circle and the representation of Japan. The writing is also excellently rendered and placed. A great pice of design in any language!
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Jet Cooper
A nice and simple chalkboard theme that utilizes an uncommon circular design. It is a nice looking introduction page that comes off as friendly and informal.
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AW Digital
A fantastic portfolio that utilizes a dark theme and has a lot of solid design work on display. There are a lot of interesting hover effects throughout the site. When you hover over objects, they take on a digitized effect that is quite nice.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Pointy Design
A great looking site with a nice big image slider and beautiful typography. I really like the color scheme and the simple nature of the icons near the bottom of the page. Overall, a really great design.
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MailChimp
This page takes the MailChimp retro branding to an awesome extreme. It is covered from top to bottom with excellent texture, typography and photographs that are all period perfect for the design style.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
Unprinted App
This site is for an iPad app that allows designers to create a digital portable portfolio. The page design is really classy and minimal with nice thin typography and bold contrast with the iPad frame.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Andrey Fedorenko
This site uses a completely unique 3D design concept. The design is based heavily on hard edges and cube-like shapes. The overall effect is quite attractive.
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Rouse
An absolutely beautiful site with an incredible attention to detail a several extremely well designed areas on the page. I love the textures throughout as well as the 3D typography, attractive icon design and smooth animations.
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Ivo Ivan
A simple site with a nice image scroller and icon based navigation. The noisy background texture almost feels like cardboard and the drop shadows are handled really well, giving the elements a floating look.
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Thomas Maier
A simple, centered column design with tons of white space. I love the ribbon at the top, the noisy background texture and the single pixel strokes dividing each section.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
Jonas Downey
This site features a strong header with a simple navigation and big circle hover effects, subtle grid lines in the content area, and lots of thick lines and borders. The design is clean, the layout is solid and the overall aesthetic is an interesting mix of fun and professional.
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M Muller
The graphic design portfolio of M. Muller. I really like the simplicity of this site. It is essentially just a headline and a large slideshow. The animated beakers in the background are a really nice touch and there is a 3D effect that takes place when you move your mouse.
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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.
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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
Maksimer
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.
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Iconfest
The "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.
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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
Real Mac Software
A popular Mac software developer, Realmac produce some gorgeous applications and have a website to match. Each app is given plenty of surrounding space, and navigation is very clear. The design is made particularly special due to the application icons which are used to great effect. Be sure to dig past the homepage to see a far more immersive and visually rich design.
Posted in Web Design → Software