Web Design Inspiration Curated
danielmart.in
I like this single page scroller because it uses the scrolling to some nice effectiveness. The large 'HOLLA' & the background imagery on the top portion or home page of this site looks neat and is plenty eye catching. Then as you scroll down you see that the logo and...
kitchensinkstudios.com
Found via @owltastic Possibly the loveliest use of web fonts I've seen to day. This design is incredible. http://t.co/hL1iybK This is a wicked interesting one pager. It pushes the limits of typography, layout, color, contrast, shape and more. It’s visually everything...
werbungrockt.de
Submitted by: Daniel Schermesser @pixelschupsernw Role: Designer & Developer A young creative advertising agency based in germany. Here is a nice looking vertical scrolling parallax based design. Honestly I can't get enough of these type designs. I know they're trendy...
Ruth
Submitted by Cory James @coryska Role: Designer & Developer In a world of ever increasing complexity, sometimes It’s nice to have less to analyze and worry about. ‘Simple’ is calming, relaxing … for a change. Pretty crazy website but I really dig it. I love the...
kingsofmambo.com
Submitted by: Manel Leiva @kingsofmambo Role: Designer & Developer I love the grid of imagery in this design. It appears to be kind of responsive but not down to mobile screen size. The overall site basically riffs off that singular grid design that drives the home...
busesatthebrewery.com
Submitted by Dan Spencer, Designer. Aside from this looking like a hell of a lot of fun the site design is pretty nice. I like that it's a single page type design with some unexpected interactions. The registration, directions and contact forms sections all "slide"...
influads.com
There are a few of these ad network sites around and this one has one of the more clearly defined explanations i've seen in a while. The heavy use of icons is what brought me to this site in the first place, I think they look really cool but aren't completely...
lauraburciaga.com
Very nice upscale looking design for this blog. I like how it really sells visually the tone of what this person does. She's an interior designer, you just get that immediately from the visual design alone. It's a decent blog content wise too if you're into this stuff.
whatisthemaze.com
I particularly like this site design because it's structure over schmutz. It has this nice clean layout using a good simple grid then has a nice touch of grime and texture on top of the structure. It's almost systematic in that approach and I really like that.
itspronouncedfrits.com
Super simple website, another single page design. But what's here is fresh looking. I love the logo treatment with the 3D'ish boxes. He's used that same treatment on his photo near the bottom of the page too. This site design has a ton of personality and it's all done...
alittlebitofsomething.co.uk
Aside from being a fairly minimal design the central piece of this website that's so compelling is the copy. I've read over this page at least 5 times just for my own amusement and it looks like it has over 12,000 facebook likes - that's strong. With sections like: I...
wonderweb.com.au
Really nice simple website for Felicity Evans here. She's done some pretty good writing around the web, which is how I first saw this website. It's simple like I said, it's not going to change the way you approach your own designs in any major way but what it does for...
CSS-Tricks.com v9
This is, I think version 9 or so, of Chris Coyier's (@chriscoyier) CSS-Tricks.com website. We've reviewed his site designs in detail in the past and have always followed his progress and how he approaches working on his website. This one for me is a fine addition to...
teamviget.com
Team Viget’s site mission is to share with you their adventures and to hopefully signal other intelligent beings that might want to join in. Now, if you’re gonna look at a site promoting a space odyssey, make sure to do it in a browser that supports the future!...
imaginista.ca
Really intriguing side scrolling design. Somehow I just enjoyed the narrative by scrolling across this site. I think a cool effect might be to make it move horizontally like it does as you use your mouse's scroll-wheel to scroll down. I've seen that before and it...
anderssonwise.com
Anderssonwise.com has a nice unique and responsive layout. Imagery is used in a way that draws you in to an environment as opposed to just looking at pictures of it. A sophisticated restraint is used throughout the site to keep the focus simple, yet striking. Details...
danogborn.com
Danogborn.com cuts straight to the point. It's refreshing to see a site like this (not a personal or agency portfolio site). Dan's blog says a lot about the aesthetic that he wants to present, the choice of language and the... well, if you'll pardon the term,...
corkcicle.com
My first impression of corkcicle.com is a stark and minimalist image ad but thats a somewhat incomplete assessment. This single page scroller goes to pretty great lengths to provide a rich visual experience. The initial scrolling experience is something to behold. I...
wearepandr.com
I like the overall look of this site and I love the detail work. The illustrations all flow really well with the rest of the design and typography - it even matches the photography pretty well. The tone is nice and easy to detect in both the design and copy. I...
growcase.com
Growcase.com has great color and strongly integrated graphics and typography. I'd like to see a little more contrast just for readability (let me just note that I'm only looking at this site on a pretty standard monitor from BestBuy and my Macbook Pro) but I think...
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