Web Design Inspiration Curated

sxsw.squarespace.com

This SXSW micro-site for Squarespace is exquisit. The design is sharp and enjoyable, the detail is superb as well. I love that skull icon - I really hope that thing was made into t-shirts, it'd be a shame if it wasn't. I love how it's a simple single page too,...

tedxportland.com

Really awesome effect with the single page scrolling design, the way the 'XRD' scrolls between the other versions of it to make that kind of vertical parallax effect/animation is pretty sweet. When you click a nav element or scroll the page for the first time, there's...

readability.com

Nice clean well designed website. I love the typography, it feels so classic to me, very much like A List Apart looks. That simplistic but super well done type layout goes such a long way to timelessness. It's great. Make sure you check out the sign up page too, I...

ambassadorsforlife.org

This is a really clean and well detailed website design. I also really dig the colors, the green and other earthy tones are chosen well to help communicate that 'world' vibe. The header confuses me visually a little bit, with the radial gradient overlaid with what...

locomotivecms.com

Cool train illustration and equally cool website for this open source CMS. It's cool to see an open source project like this with such good design. I really like how the design is very organic feeling with the navigation, it's really simple in it's presentation but...

bluecadet.com

First off super cool use of Mrs Eaves on a website. I love the little details on this site, it's such a great tone and mixes so well with the type choices. I really like the oversized feeling images on the home page too. It's almost slideshow overload with the home...

readyforzero.com

Nice open looking design. The colors chosen here work well together and support the idea of the product too I think. Also keeping the call to action links/buttons visually together in sharing the orange makes them stand out really loudly against the overly blue and...

sodafish.com

Super simple design but it's great IMHO. I love this guy's work and I like how the site has a little character but really gets out of the way of the work. It's a really simple execution technically too and it's a great example of just letting your work speak for you.

questionablecharacters.com

Cool concept for a website, Frank Chimero and Ben Barry answer questions. The split design is often hard to pull off but this one not only looks great but the concept is perfectly suited for it. There's some really nice little details at play here too. Overal it's a...

victoriafloresweb.com

I like the personality in this design. The mix of the brown/tan cardboard look and the solid sans serif font goes together well. I also like how the site is embracing the scroll. Let it scroll man! Lovely site.

sonyericsson.com xperiments

Crazy design that works. I really dig the Rube Goldberg looking looking illustration, it's so fun and makes you want to click around on it. The cloud background and overall design elements go really well together and make this site a very fun visual experience. It's...

blamestella.com

The service is a cool idea and the design of the site is cool looking too. The colors are definitely different looking, that alone is memorable to me since it's so non-standard feeling. Then the moustache/graph logo is pretty dang funny. Love it. Try the speed test...

iconbakery.com

Super nice clean design. I love the simple little icons used around the site and the nice large(ish) headers over all the sections. Really clean easy to follow grid lets your eye move around the copy really quickly. Nice colors and detail work.

truetea.cz

This site has a nice illustrative feel, it's very inviting visually. I like how the content is light and presented quickly and through other interesting interactive means like the quiz or other sub areas. It's not a straight up home page + sub pages site and that's a...

thelounge.fi

Submitted by: Esa Peltonen @esapeltonen Role: Designer and Illustrator The site is a good example of incorporating powerful illustrational elements in a web design. That is is! I love this design. It's very unique even though it's utilizing some really common/trendy...

ancnoc.com

Submitted by: Gordon Carmichael @whitespacers / @gordycarmichael Role: Designer We've just completed a new site for anCnoc Single Malt Whisky: http://www.ancnoc.com You reviewed another one of our sites last year: http://rowtothepole.com/ which we were delighted...

sushimonstr.com

Pretty nifty looking non-standard type design. It looks like a pseudo three column layout approach but the footer, or second level of content, is throwing me off. I do love that illustration, very funny and memorable. The background texture/image is also very nice.

simplegeo.com

The first thing you notice is that those icons/illustrations are just out of control. They look so freaking cool. The site design itself is also well done and clean even though the background is an actual grid, it just works - especially with the product's concept. I...

salesactivities.com

Really great design. It's refreshing to see something so full of detail and polish that isn't a designer portfolio site. This site has a great quick experience in taking you from first glance to going to the plans & pricing page. The video is well done too, compelling...

visualrepublic.net

Really tight design. I love the lines mixed with the textures and the type is very nicely done. I like the fixed navigation element too, it has a cool vibe as it feels like it follows you down the page as you scroll. I'm not too hip on the name & email fields of the...