Presence Driven Music
Music sites are notoriously poor in their design but this one comes off quite classy. The rich, dark colors and beautiful photography work really well together.
Posted in Web Design → Music
Alex Noren
This site uses an awesome full-page slideshow an beautiful photography. Sometimes the best design statement can be made by just showcasing great photography and minimizing the actual UI.
Posted in Web Design → Sport
Kleeve
Kleeve sells custom t-shirts with unique illustrations. The product is displayed well on the homepage with high quality photography with a homegrown feel. The scribbled treatment at the top of the page is nice and reinforces the art element found in the shirts.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Polaroid
A nice side scrolling site with a modular format containing several boxes of content displayed on a dark background. There is a nice fusion here of typography and photography and several small examples of good design that lend to the whole.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Row To The Pole
A beautiful and unique nautically themed site with a retro flare. The mixture of photography and illustration is excellent and the parallax scrolling effect is a really nice touch.
Posted in Web Design → Community
Green Onion
This site features a boldly red design with lots of great textured and typography. The real hero of the design the os the photography. The beautiful photos really bring in that sense of professional design.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Sebcreation
This site uses dramatic photography and impressive lighting effects to capture your attention. The busy background made creating readable typography difficult but the designer handled the problem like a pro and has created a beautiful and readable page.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Leslee Mitchell
This site is an absolutely beautiful photography blog with an awesome collection of work and a brilliant layout. The little graphical banners and the old-style typography really finish of the design and give it a classy feel.
Posted in Web Design → Blog
Market Restaurant
This site design is an awesome combination of color, texture and photography. Notice that the design is not just attractive but highly functional. The restaurant hours are placed right on the homepage because they are probably one of the main reasons people stop by the site.
Posted in Web Design → Food
The Bridal Boutique
This site features a really clean and professional design and plenty of high quality photography. I really like the navigation area with the pop out hover effects. The lightly textured background is also a nice touch.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
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
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
Commotion
This site features awesomely unique illustrations that have a sort of fantastical feel to them. The photography used in conjunction with the illustrations is perfect as well and the color scheme ties it all together nicely.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Josh Sender
This site really struck me as unique. The graphics and photography are quite dramatic. I love the simplified borderless thumbnail gallery that scrolls over a fixed background.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Greenhill SAVP
This is a really great looking site with a super clean, professional appeal and a perfect color palette. I love the heavy use of photography and the pops of green in all the right places.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
Reportage Photography
Photographer sites are best when the designer lets the photos speak for themselves by making them the largest element on the page. This designer definitely got it right. The classy minimalist design really helps highlight the work o display.
Posted in Web Design → Photography
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.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Geogeske
A nice use of photography to add color and depth to a design. I love the use of bold colors, typography and graphical elements that really bring a unique quality to this design.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Sharp Machine Media
This site is a perfect example of how good photography is an easy and almost instant way to create classy design. The dramatic photo does all the aesthetic heavy lifting along with some grungy and old style text to support the theme.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
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.
Posted in Web Design → Photography