Loving the new Mark Boulton Design website, we loved it so much we recorded a screen-cast review of it. The typography is of course immaculate and it goes without saying that this design uses a strong grid system, it’s actually a clinic in both departments. The site is both thorough and well crafted design.
This site lacks a lot the common trends we’re seeing a lot of, the scrolling javascript animations, and overly self congratulating, overly big header tag-line, and it’s worth studying in detail. This site is the quintessential modern website update, but with all the things that make up timeless quality in a design and I think it’s a least a “bar setter” for the industry, while not being overly designed. That may sound like a lot of bunk, sorry for that, but really study it, it grows on you at just how solid it is.
You guys are absolutely right. I think that Mark Boulton is one of the strongest Web designers out there right now.
I really like this redesign, as you say the crisp typography and clean layout are brilliantly done. However I find going from the homepage to sub pages slightly jarring, the sudden disappearance of such a major element as the header made me initially think the page was broken, I find the header a little lacking in balance on these pages.
it’s very similar to edenspiekermann.com which has been live since jan 2009