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Springhouse Law

This beautiful site design combines bold colors, excellent illustrations and perfect typography to create a really stunning effect. I love the green theme with the growing plants and really find the site to be attractive from top to bottom.

Kike Riesco

The layout is basically a simple grid of thumbnails but I really like how the designer styled it. The thumbnail treatments is really nice and I like the oddly thin column of images on the textured background.

Traxor Designs

Usually we feature the header of a site but I found the lower content to be much more interesting here. I love the arrangement of the typography and the old style illustrations on the textured background. It definitely gives the site a book feel that I would like to see accomplished in the header.

Andrew David

This site utilizes very subtle amounts of texture in the background, large thumbnails, minimalist icons and awesome web type. I particularly like the shadow treatment on the gallery thumbnails as well as the script font used on the active state of the navigation.

Creative Payne

This site features a beautiful classic art theme interestingly mixed with a dollar bill motif. The illustrations, colors, texture and typography are all simply excellent. Be sure to stop by the site to see it in all its glory.

Inspiredology

Insrpiredology is an awesome blog with an awesome new design. The header illustration is stellar and is both humorous and quite impressive. Also, the post format is really clean and easy to follow and the footer is quite well done.

Vector Stories

An interesting site that uses a sewing metaphor for graphic design services. Vector Stories uses old style sketches and grungy paper textures to achieve a believable aged look.

Who Is Leon

This site uses an awesome vintage photograph theme with birds and clouds. The clouds provide an animated background which stays fixed when you scroll as the foreground content glides over it. A nice effect!

Cafundo Estudio

This is one crazy site concept. There is a giant rooster head, some Tim Burton-esque 3D typography, apstract tentacle shapes, vertical lines and star bursts. From just reading that description you would picture a hideous site but it actually looks great! Nice work.

A Feed Apart

A Feed Apart is a twitter feed for all things related to the Event Apart event in Boston. I love the classy design of the page. The insets and shadows give a lot of three dimensional depthe to the design and the color scheme is spot on.

Bam Creative

A relatively simple design that makes a few really bold statements. I love the huge bomb, the bright background color repeated in important places around the site, and the peeling labels.

Veerle

This beautiful page is the new Veerle blog redesign. I cannot say enough about this redesign. The colors, textures, illustrations, typography, all come together to make this truly stellar example of professional web design. Great job Veerle!

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.

Cromulent Design

This site features a bright green background and funny illustrated characters hanging upside down from the top of the screen. If you visit the site, be sure to scroll down to the well designed footer featuring a tree and some Twitter birds.

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.

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.

For a Beautiful Web

Mad Rhino Productions

Living Design

Andre Goncalves