EIght Hour Day is a design and illustration studio with a unique and attractive body of work. I love the illustration style found all over the website and their work. The choice of typography and colors is spot on and provides a great compliment to the images.
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Bright color and bold typography make this design a definite winner. I love the unique idea for displaying the services being offered and the large social links at the bottom.
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This site uses huge typography in the header to make a unique statement and grab your attention. The layout is nice and clean with bold use of contrast throughout. Overall a beautiful site.
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A nice minimal design with a heavy emphasis on the work being displayed. The page was designed using the 960.gs and has a super tight alignment that really gives it that clean and modern feel.
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This site is the portfolio of designer and student Chris Kinsey. The mixture of bold condensed and script fonts in the headline is a really nice combination. I also like the color scheme and the refreshingly different layout of the thumbnails and descriptions.
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An extremely simple but quite attractive gallery page featuring a large banner at the top followed by a series of thumbnails. I love the text treatment in the headline in conjunction with the use of shapes and subtle textures.
Posted in Web Design → Design
The content here is split into two strong, clearly defined columns with a nice large jQuery slider on the right. I like the big, bold text in the navigation as well as the 3D effects on the left column.
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This site uses attractive typography and bold contrast as the main features of the aesthetic style. I like the rough painted edge of the header and the mixture of old style and slab serif typography.
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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.
Posted in Web Design → Corporate
This website has a wonderfully simple layout that reminds of of really classy design in the 90s. I like the centered focal point with the stylish typography and abstract shapes.
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This site features an awesome chameleon graphic to convey the idea that the designer is adaptable. I love the artwork, typography and colors used here. Definitely a great site design!
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This site features a really clean and professional design and plenty of high quality photography. I really like the navigation area with the pop out hover effects. The lightly textured background is also a nice touch.
Posted in Web Design → Misc
I cannot decide if this site is hideous or beautiful, but it is certainly unique! The out of control illustrations cover every inch of the long homepage and the head of the monster at the top pops off and stays with you as you scroll!
Posted in Web Design → Blog
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.
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This site has a wonderfully unique design that plays heavily on the title and uses a ribbon coming out of a blender as a banner for text. I love the color scheme, original concept and slight background animations.
Posted in Web Design → Music
This site features some beautiful typographical artwork that has a cool depth of field illusion. Notice how heavily the designer uses contrast to grab your attention in both the header, main image, and dark inset type.
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A fairly simple but attractive portfolio page with a horizontal image slider as the main visual element. Note the repetitive use of the dot pattern and the generous use of whitespace.
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This page header is bursting with awesome graphics screened and faded onto the background texture. I like the mixture of city and nature graphics in the same space. This reinforces the coexistence element of the message.
Posted in Web Design → Community
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.
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I love how simple and attractive this site is. The gray gradient background works perfectly with the inset box at the top. I also really like the integration of the Dribbble feed complete with animated hover effects. Great work!
Posted in Web Design → Portfolio