Pixeden
A simple but effective gallery site that showcases free premium design and web resources for designers. I like the grid layout and space given to images of the designs, while the green and grey colour scheme works to complement the clean ethos of the site.
Posted in Web Design → Design
5emegauche
A fascinating and uniquely engaging site for an online marketing agency. I love the concept of a giant slideshow, the use of imagery is powerful. I love the use of colour and step by step introduction to their company.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
1minus1 Web Design
A gorgeous and beautifully animated site for a web development agency. I love the illustrations and simple flow of the animations. The minimal use of colour is extremely effective here and guides you through the core points of the site.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Superbe
A bright and vibrant site for a new interactive design agency. I love the colourful geometric shapes that make up the background. The way the grid interacts with you as you scroll over items works well to intrigue the visitor to the site.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Minimit
A very straightforward yet effective site for a designer. I like the slideshow of featured projects and the simple use of colour throughout. I particularly like the way the navigation is animated!
Posted in Web Design → Design
The Rossello Residences
A stylish yet vibrant site for a residential development. I love the use of colour and painted approach to the header. This site is immediately striking and gives a great impression to potential residents.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
Yast
A clean and clear site for an online time tracker. I like the consistent use of colour and intuitive layout of the page. The adjustment of social icons to fit the colour scheme of the site is an interesting touch.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Background Labs
A great looking site that features a wide variety of Photoshop backgrounds, patterns, textures, and graphics. I love the way the greyed out Facebook, Twitter, and RSS icons spring into colour as you scroll over them! The site is intuitively laid out and features a nice section for seeing the most popular tags!
Posted in Web Design → Misc
Toc-Toc
A company site that makes an immediate impact. The use of colour is interesting and the luxurious use of space is compelling! It can be surprisingly effective not to bombard visitors with excessive content.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
The Font Game
The Font Game is an App that is perfect for passionate designers and illustrators and as such needs to have a stunning interface. Fortunately it lives up to expectation; utilising space and icons brilliantly, keeping it simple, and focusing on the fonts!
Posted in Interface → iPhone App
Taiyab Raja
This site has a nice and simple design with an attractive background and easily readable typography. Some designers make the mistake of thinking that if you do not have a lot of content, something is wrong. This site shows a small amount of content can be beautiful.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
RBLmon
A pretty typical layout but still attractive. The textured color bar at the top is nice and I like the glossy button treatments.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
Ian Mintz
The watercolor illustration of clouds on this site is quite beautiful and interestingly combined with origami birds for an altogether unique look. I like the single-page nature of the site and how the content for other pages scrolls in via jQuery instead of additional page loads.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
WP Ninja
WP Ninja has a fun ninja theme that is carried out well in illustrations throughout the site. The homepage has a ton of content but it is organized quite well and flows in a logical fashion. Not an easy task but pulled off nicely here.
Posted in Web Design → Design
AKA Acid
This awesome site uses a heavy dose of beautiful 3D modeling to create immersive and fantastical scenes on every page. I love the treatment of typography throughout the site and the modeling is really excellent.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Squarefour
Squarefour is a web development agency based in New Orleans. Their site is attractive and makes great use of both textures and typography. The slightly graphical dividing lines are a nice touch as well.
Posted in Web Design → Design
CreativeSwitch
A great looking site with a fun robot theme. I like that the background image is fixed while the artwork scrolls. I also like the custom illustrations and bold high contrast color scheme.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
UpHype
UpHype is an interesting service where users make unique offers for how they can promote your business. The design is colorful and fun and highlights the rather bizarre nature of the idea.
Posted in Web Design → Community
Local Wisdom
This site is fantastically unique in just about every way possible. From the crazy illustrated background to the original 3D ribbon navigation area, it all has a high quality custom feel that is hard to find and easy to appreciate.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Theory Design
Theory Design is the online portfolio of Ryan McCaster, a designer from Vancouver. The rough texture watercolor background is the star of this site, perfectly accented by all of the inset letterpress effects on the graphical elements.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio