The web design sketchbook is a book containing various tools for mocking up websites. The website features a nice a simple design that showcases the product well. It is nice to see such a simple layout applied to a product website, which are commonly quite busy.
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This page is very attractive and uses a single bright color in the header to grab your attention and contrast against the white background. The layout is beautiful with plenty of white space and the typography is spot on. A really great design!
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A simple but attractive design featuring an image slideshow with a Ken Burns effect. I like the minimal design, the smooth clean lines, the contrasting dark colors on the white background, and the overall classiness is portrayed.
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I really like the colorful header graphic, glowing logo typography, and centered iMac graphic. Overall a really eye catching design that is laid out well despite being a little busy.
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This design features huge typography and a slightly transparent background screened over a blurry photo. The dark header contrasts nicely with the white background and the simple vertical navigation seems just right for the design.
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This site features a wonderful vintage look with beautiful but subtle illustrations and typography. The single column layout works perfectly and the navigation blends beautifully with the aesthetic of the page.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
This site features a really nice oversized header with a dark, noisy background, thin typography and tons of negative space. The content below is divided into clean, rounded corner boxes broken up into three columns. Stop by the work page to see a nice two column portfolio layout.
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This site features a reased and torn paper background that is selectively applied and not at all overdone. I also love the bright colors, single strip image slider, and perfect footer design.
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The Wisdom of Bees is a book that uses the metaphor of a bee hive to teach practical business lessons. The wonderfully simple site features simple but perfect illustrations, a bright yellow background and well chose typography. If you watch for long enough, one of the bees flaps his wings!
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Cathedral City is a website for a popular brand of cheese in Britain. I love the architecture illustrations, fisheye effect and various flying objects buzzing around the page. Overall a very attractive site that proves busy web design does not have to be ugly!
Posted in Web Design → Food
This clever site uses FourSquare to tell you if the male/female ratio is in your favor at a given location. The undoubtedly feminine site uses pink gradients and curvy fonts to clearly target the fairer gender. I love the little map graphic with a single 3D building.
Posted in Web Design → Community
This site is the portfolio of designer David Fooks. The black background and white objects contrast brilliantly and really catch your attention. Other great design elements include awesome icon design, nice and subtle dotted lines, and animated hover effects.
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A very simple but attractive design that contains some nice subtle graphical flavor. I love the single pixel line and the connected flag on the left side of the page, the header that stays with you as you scroll and the unexpected flash of bright orange when you hover over a link.
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Though this site contains some serious layout issues beneath the fold, I really liked the illustration style in the header. The textures and colors are mixed well to create a nostalgic feeling when you look at the page.
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This site features an excellent old time, grayscale look and feel with dramatic photography and minimalist design elements. Only the homepage is featured above so be sure to stop by the site and click around to see the design style continued in different ways throughout the other pages on the site.
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Scriptmatix is a software company specializing in business solutions. The layered website showcase is attractive and I like the typefaces that were used. The large red button is a bit awkwardly placed but stands out well and successfully grabs your attention.
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A nice minimalist design with lots of gray and white, thick but subtle borders, and really excellent typography throughout. In addition to the strong use of fonts throughout the design, the artist has built and impressive typographic portrait of himself.
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This is one of the best site designs I have come across in a while. The colors, textures, theme presentation, and button designs are all beautifully designed and come together to make a page that is completely unique and a pleasure to look at.
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The layout could admittedly use a little work on this site, but i really like some of the features of the design. The icons in the top right are simple and effective, the images have a nice sliding effect on hover, and the boxes of content near the bottom of the page are very well designed.
Posted in Web Design → Sport
This site utilizes paper textures, a mix of both serif an san serif typography, and a nice large jquery slider. The overall design is simple but effective though there is definitely room for some improvement in the layout.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio