Aribeo
A wonderful portfolio site for a creative freelancer! I love that the sidebar remains stationary while you scroll through the gallery to the \'about me\' section. The minimalism of this design is great and perfectly adorned with little handwritten comments and doodles.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Bagatelle Records
An immediately intriguing site for a vinyl record shop based in Long Beach. The illustrations work well to hold a visitors attention although there\'s a lot more that could be done with vinyl art. I like the use of typeface and division of the background!
Posted in Web Design → Music
Northern Bee Auctions
An interesting site for a Beekeeping auction. I like the use of photography and fascinating typeface used! The layout of the site is intuitive and allows you to immediately get the information that you want!
Posted in Web Design → Misc
James Oconnell
The personal portfolio of James O\'Connell features a screen-wide slideshow that makes a great impact. As a designer it\'s vital to showcase your work and design philosophy to any prospective clients and this is achieved here using a gallery of James\' recent work. I like the subtlety of the dark grey text on the light grey background. It\'s not something that immediately makes sense, but that works perfectly to allow the colourful designs to grab your attention.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Keith Cakes
A simple design for a homemade cake company that features mouth-watering photography! The typeface is great and the stripped back design allows your attention to be drawn to the beautiful treats on display.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Animal Virals
As the name implies, this site posts funny videos featuring animals. I really like the logo design and the textured background is not bad either. Overall, a fairly unique design for a video site.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
Proxart
This design style is fairly trendy right now and I am beginning to see it more and more. The basic premise is a very modular, grid layout with large squares placed over a beautiful photographic background. The end product is really nice.
Posted in Web Design → Community
Urustar
This site features an excellently executed retro theme that is both fun and gorgeous. I love the use of colors and illustrations combined with the detailed stroke work on the edges.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Bill Bone Art
I love the clean and classy appeal of this design. The 3D banner at the top, the serifed type on white, all very nice. The talent on showcase here is really interesting as well, be sure to stop by and check it out!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Alertful
Alertful is a simple and free service that sends you friendly reminders for anything you need to remember. The page is cleverly designed with sticky notes and a friendly illustrated character.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
Cheeky Monkey
This site features some really great graphical elements. The excellently illustrated monkey character stands in front of a jQuery chalkboard with smooth transitions. This is a really nice looking page that has been kept fairly simple with content and messaging, which made room for some eye-catching artwork.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
6 Wunderkinder
6 Wunderkinder is a group of very talented app developers with both an attractive website and some beautiful software. Check out Wunderlist, their awesome free task manager that rivals the functionality of sixty dollar apps in its category.
Posted in Web Design → Software
Weasylife
A beautiful dark theme that makes great use of color and transparency to create different levels. I like the hint of a bokeh background and the rounded corners on the image gallery.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
ShelfLuv
This site builds a selection of books for you instantly as you type in a query. The design is very much like that of the Apple iBooks interface with a nice wooden bookshelf that displays cover art, often with a Kindle peeking out from behind the book.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
Bollea
This attractive site is a showcase for flower arrangements. I like the brightly colored header as well as the wooden background and thumbnail treatments.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Wawa Coffeetopia
The colors and swirly artwork on this site are a perfect visual suggestion of coffee and the photographic elements and textures have been skillfully combined in Photoshop. Overall, it is a nice looking site that feels unique while remaining easy to use.
Posted in Web Design → Food
Pop The Box
This site uses an awesome argyle patter in conjunction with a perfect color scheme and some subtle textures. I love the bold script font used here and the fixed background that makes the content seem to float on scroll.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
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
Red Tiki
This page is both incredibly fun and incredibly beautiful. The textures, color and illustrations are all perfectly executed and the tiki theme is hilarious. I love the Twitter bird with the mask and the little animated guys at the bottom of the page.
Posted in Web Design → Design
Webexpo
A nice looking site with an interesting mixture of structured and organic design. There is an overall theme revolving around a jagged squiggly line graphic that is repeated in different ways throughout the page.
Posted in Web Design → Design