Something about a classic looking simple design. Johan's portfolio website has "it". I dig it greatly! Submitted by: Johan Gunnarsson @nahoj Role: Designer
tix02 design studio
Cool and kind of trippy agency site out of Belgium, from tix02. The scroll is reversed, and the Work section through me off guard for a second; but it's definitely unique in it's design, and should stand out to potential clients. I really like the section on "Building...
Nivas
Dynamic and bold design from Nivas out of Croatia. The multi-hued chevrons really make this site - and the line art illustration is a great background to start the page. Also like the Work page, and how the chevron shape is included in the work portfolio.
Wide Open Technologies
I was looking up some information on one our ConvergeSE speakers - Adam Smith - and took a look at his company's website, a Wilmington, NC based firm - Wide Open Technologies. This is a solid site, that is clean and easy to follow. I especially like the Services page...
BigCartel 2014 Recap
I really like this trend over the past couple of years of companies spending a little time summing up their year in a fun and interesting way. BigCartel has done that here with their 2014 "Cheers to Last Year". SVG and illustration rich - and smart links to parts of...
Luxx Web Design
TLDR' - Good agency / portfolio site out of Germany - from a couple of 15 y/o's. Great to see someone with ambition and skill just starting out in the industry - working on client projects before half of the web designer population has even started training in...
Limonadas S/A
This is a fun, one pager agency site from Limonadas SA out of Brazil. I'm always impressed when someone can take illustrations and make them work on the page seamlessly with the rest of the elements there. Also like the "motion" on the header / nav as you scroll down...
Toi
Solid agency site work coming out of Toi, based in California, Texas and Buenos Aires. Like the use of the animated gif background at the top of the home page - gives it a feel of a video, and somewhat parallax background, and may work better with the speed of the...
Bloomberg Media
With the new Bloomberg Business website that launched a couple of weeks ago (which we made some observations here), well it looks like the media giant also has a separate site for the media / advertising / marketing sales division - Bloomberg Media (BBM). We thought...
Dog Studio
Dog Studio out of Belgium is pretty darn cool. Their site is a little unconventional - but it seems in-line with their immersive website work. The Projects pages are really rich - especially check out the Waterloo page. Good... stuff! (yes, a play on their motto).
Benvisual
I don't need to say much - Bence from Budapest has the description of his website down to a T: From the designer: I like how the images really dominate the whole site. The UI is extremely boiled down, so the pictures can shine. Submitted by: Bence Löcsei Twitter...
La Haute Societe
I will tell you that your Macbook will be running hard when you clickthrough to La Haute Societe's site - but it will be worth it. This is one of the best use cases of video background - because it's pervasive throughout the entire site. It has a good flow and story...
LGK
Really like this portfolio site from Luke Greenway out of Brighton, UK. It's smooth and classy? - can't find better words for to describe that right now. Also starting to like this trend of sticky headers that reveal in a different color when you scroll down (white to...
Mass Effect
Good clean agency site out of Sydney from Mass Effect. There are some places that could use a little less SEOing (like the footer) - but I like when sites use neutral coloring like this as a backdrop - and let their work be the coloring - would like to see some more...
Navy
The angles make this design feel dynamic. They're almost too much but it works. I particularly like the pattern the triangles make in the footer area.
Wolf and Son
What a beautiful grid based layout for the Wolf and Son website. There isn't much I don't like about this site design. The colors and photography really just seal the deal to make this a really great looking site.
25 Art House
The 25 Art House website has a really cool vibe with the clean and crisp typography and the large notecard looking case study link blocks. I dig the 'masonry' loading and sliding around the link blocks do as well on screen resize. Cool site.
Cookiesound
My wife and I love travel, and were remembering back to living in Australia and traveling to Bali (pre-kids). So I'm always interested in traveling blogs, and just caught Cookiesound this morning. Looks like a mother and daughter (Ulli and Nisa), from outside of...
Formagramma
Really interesting visual approach. It has the 'feel' of an art or design magazine for sure. I really like the 'view article' overlay for the sections as you make your way past the hero area. I also like the way they've handled the main nav and the more nav section...
Taostudio
I really enjoyed looking through this website. BTW the fish blinks... The design is beautiful and I love the contrast with the light line work in the design with the heavy typeface.
Beech Mountain Resort
This is a follow up to our review on Friday for Burton Snowboards. It's nice to have a platform to thank people and businesses when you've had a good experience with them - and as someone who has owned companies in the hospitality business, I know that complaints...
Burton Snowboards
I took my son snowboarding for the first time at Beech Mountain (@BeechMtnResort North Carolina) last Friday (and ok, it was only my second time) - so we took lessons (because last time, 10 years ago, I only lasted 4 hours, and watched my buddies for the rest of the...
Sublimeo
A good agency site out of France for Sublimeo. It's very functional and exact, probably with too much copy in one place, but that could be for more SEO reasons. I do like the flat / big icons that are used as secondary navigation (I've done that before, so might just...
Google Science Fair
This is a cool site and cause from Google - it's the Google Science Fair. We've seen so many flat sites (svgs, illustrations, general design) in the past year, many trying to take off from Google's lead (Material Design), that it's interesting that this is a more...
Olark at 10,000
Ah the power of compounding numbers - it's really cool to see the journey of companies, from back of a napkin, through acceleration, and into adulthood. Olark, at live chat customer service app company out of San Fransisco, uses this page to tell that story. It's a...
Genn
It took me a couple of times to get into this site - but revisiting it now to review it, I'm digging this portfolio site by Genn out of Kiev. The stark nakedness of the opening is very very cool, and the hover-state that leads to navigation is a nice surprise. Good...
Licorn Publishing
Love this site out of Paris for Lincorn Publishing. The intro page with the video background and movement of the text is very cool. The Services (Prestations) page deserves the scroll-jacking so that you can soak in the images - then it has great transitions. From the...
Telerik
Between Sitefinity and Kendo UI, we've been watching Telerik for a good time now. With the new release of Kendo, we figured we'd look at their site for a little review. I'm always interested in what developer intensive companies do with their websites design-wise....
Mediamartin
Good one-pager portfolio site from Martin Gonzalez out of Barcelona. Like the play of the headline copy over the slideshow and the on-scroll fly-ins. It might scroll a little too fast, but it's well thought and laid out. Submitted by: Martin Gonzalez Twitter: @saretdm...
Wattage
Good site and great idea from Wattage.io out of Toronto. Like the integration of the video demos to give you a feel for how the app really works - this is a case where showing your app on your one pager is actually a good thing. Simple, clean, and useful - that makes...
