Dropr is a new site for creating multimedia-drive portfolios. The design utilizes an attractive and ornate illustration style with colorful animated raindrops falling from floating sketchy clouds.
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GogoThemes hosts both premium and free WordPress and HTML themes. Their site design is very simple and clean while remaining effective. A large slider displays the products on sale and the sections of content below are distinctive and attractive.
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This site features an amazing full screen illustration of an octopus at the ocean sketching both on paper and on a tablet. It sounds ridiculous but the execution is stunning. The use of color and lighting effects is truly masterful.
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An absolutely beautiful site with an amazing rendering of a swiss army knife comprised of design tools. The page has been really stripped of content to highlight the large graphic. The site offers a cool freebies section that you should check out as well!
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A very simple design that relies heavily on typography and bold, oversized statements. The Dribbble and Sketchbook portions are definitely the highlight of the page as they bring in some much needed imagery.
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A dead-simple design that is quite attractive while featuring little else that a large slideshow of recent work. I particularly like the subtle 3D effect that has been applied to the boxes at the bottom of the page.
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An awesome looking site with beautiful illustrations and typography work. I really like the Ballpark script used for the headings as well as the subtle use of texture on the main banner.
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Recurse is a web app for designers to show off flat design ideas as if they were a website. I really like the wooden background in combination with the stacked paper look. A great design!
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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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A wonderfully retro design from BuySellAds advertising their new AdPacks program. The artwork really nails the time period they are shooting for and once you start looking at the finer details you can tell that they put a lot of work into the design.
Posted in Web Design → MiscThis site is an absolutely beautiful online store selling icons. The theme is a set of shelves and every icon set is displayed in a custom box design. The Photoshop work here is fantastic and you really must click through and check it out.
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This site uses a super simple minimalist layout, which really highlights the attractive imagery. I like the restrained use of color and the repetition of the single color for emphasis in all the right areas.
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A nice looking corporate design that is quite attractive while remaining clean and professional. There are lots of little touches that go along way. Subtle uses of texture, shadowing and lines really finish out the design.
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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.
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A great looking coming soon page with an awesome nature theme. Notice how the design incorporates several rich textures to really push the theme.
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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
This site has an absolutely beautiful design with perfect colors, textures and graphics. The content in the header automatically slides up in a smooth transition and is an excellent display of all the services offered by the company.
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This site uses a simple but effective design with a jQuery slider header and another for the content area. The use of sliders allowed the designer to cram a ton of content on a single page in a nicely designed manner.
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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
I like the boldness of the design here with the huge letters and colored circle. The single page format is nice as well, as you click to each section you can see that it was given as much attention and thought as the first.
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