Web Design Inspiration Curated

drxlr.com

There are some really good things happening in this site design. First I love the minimal aspect to the home page, presenting the blog posts in a slideshow/side scrolling setup like this works great. Second, I love the bright colors and illustrative quality to the...

alexswanson.net

Really cool landing page for Alex Swanson's main site. I really like the idea of doing a landing page for yourself from time to time and marketing that page. It would be much quicker than re-working your entire site and you can experiment a bit with it. I like a lot...

evaneckard.com

I really dig the background pattern and the gradient/light shift. The colors give it a nice cool feel too. This guy makes some nice themes too, including that “Desktop Chaos” theme from the Smashing Magazine giveaway. I'm not too hip on the small script type font used...

beta.livingprinciples.org

Found via @AIGASC Just In! The beta site of the Living Principles is live. Check it out & join the conversation beta.livingprinciples.org This is a pretty cool looking layout at first. I like the orange sidebar(s) in contrast with the normal white background that...

zindustry.com

I like the imagery used in this design, even though there just might be a little too much of the fire visual, I really like it. It's well done and the texture that gives to the rest of the site is much needed. I also like the large images used for the work samples and...

atlantis.com

First things first, the portal page needs some attention. I understand keeping it quick but it doesn't carry over the small design consistencies that the two sites share. I think it's interesting that instead of trying to continue the large photo backgrounds on the...

jaxvineyards.com

Pretty cool website concept, the super oversized image of the wine bottle is nice looking and makes me really want a taste... What's here is the call to action is a little grayed out button with "browse" as the name on it. This loads a sort of tool-tip navigation when...

thedesigncubicle.com

It can be hard to articulate why a design is good, or why it just works. A great design like this just is. All of the things that make this site successful are so small, so subtle as to go almost unnoticed. To start with, the type is perfectly chosen and set. I think...

visitmanchester.com

An interesting review here, we find that Jay and I disagree a little on this site design. Here's our comments: Jay This site, while at first seeming a bit minimal and restrained, has a lot of gimmickry going on which really detracts from the content and usability....

thechurchoflondon.com

The Church of London has a lot of great work to show off. Truly inspired and interesting work. Their site is chock full of content, and the minimal black plus hints of pink really works well. The only quibble I have is the choice of the thin sans-serif for the titles....

twentyfeet.com

When trying to launch a new product, it's important to instill confidence in a potential customer. Some of the things that can help that are design, content and completeness. This site almost hits on those but doesn't quite come to deliver the full package. On the...

trevorhutchison.com

I love these colors, these dark browns and orange are really great together. Plus robots are cool and this guy draws some awesome Transformers. The design looks like an altered template from one of these guy's templates. But, that's fine by me, in this instance...

joyent.com

Joyent's site is minimal and fresh. The limited use of color and perfectly laid out type really make successful. I can't imagine the type being chosen and laid out any better. It's plain old Lucida Grande, but there's something about it that just fits this site. The...

wheretheyatnola.com

Really cool looking layout. I like the dark and yellow working together like this. The way the mouse over on the photos works is a nice touch too. The sub pages' content gets kind of lost with the dark background I think but it all goes together style wise.

kaleidoscopeapp.com

This site has a lot of character. It utilizes brilliant color and bold shapes to divide its content separate areas. In general, this works really well to create a distinct, visually appealing site. The single page structure works well when using the nav bar but seems...

bowtieperiod.com

Interesting design here. I love the animated little dude that strolls around, the hand drawn nature of the illustration is really nice. The navigation is really weird but it's working for them on their site. Overall this is a pretty fun website to look at, I don't...

futurising.org

There is some interesting interaction work here on this website. The "browser by sector" fly-out is interesting. As well is the search box design. The site uses the underline pretty heavily for elements that aren't normally underlined (only) on typical website...

justalab.com

Some nice progressive enhancement with the main slideshow. Overall interesting single page scrolling site.

dm11sto.com

Really cool design to have all the headshots lined up in a grid like they are. The mouse overs are a really nice touch too. I don't think this idea is incredibly unique, but it's pulled off here in a nice way and showing me a wall of people (the school's students) in...