Web Design Inspiration Curated

dollardreadful.com

I love this design, these old 1800's style illustrations are wonderful. The detail that went into this visually is just stunning. Very fun website.

markjardine.com

I really like the 'chiseled' look of Mark's site. The static sidebar on the left and the way the rest scrolls is a cool effect. The fact that he's a iPhone/Mac designer really comes through even though this is a personal, fun site. It's also really cool to see that...

haystack.com

Haystack is a new project by 37Signals (in case you didn't know). First off this is a great name/brand. "Needle in a haystack" is seriously clever. The design is really minimal and keeps the focus on the design samples, like it should. The sign up or posting your...

mobily.pl

Here's another heavy javascript site. I like the simplified layout, it's more like i'm looking at a presentation than a website at times. The look & feel is interesting, with the rich background and colors really popping out me.

asosplc.com

I find this design to be kind of interesting in that it's pretty much a standard type layout but all the little elements that get blocked in with non-typical shapes. There's some good detail work across the site and just looks finished. It's also pretty corporate but...

GANDR One Pagers

Submitted by Garrett Winder, @garrettwinder. Developer. Really clever illustration on this site, it really sells the whole deal for me. It's just one page, but it's pretty rich in visuals and I think does it's job well.

thebridalfile.co.uk

The background is what makes this site really come alive. I love all the real-world type of elements worked into the design. The main navigation on the left side is a little out of control with all the links there, but overall this is a pretty nice looking website.

adiirockstar.com

Found via @maxvoltar, Tim Van Damme: Looks like my redesign of @adii's blog soft-launched this morning: http://adiirockstar.com/ Thanks for the kind words all 🙂 I'm loving all the little details in this blog design. The background texture and all the icons are just...

abduzeedo.com

Interesting looking dark background site. I like the way it's all dark except the photos and logo coloring. It's pretty straight forward and simple enough, like a typical blog. There's just enough little things off-kilter enough to make me look twice at it.

webmynd.com

Found via @squaredeye Clean styles, elegant animation and interaction : http://webmynd.com/html/ via @boagworld. There's also a pretty good post on this by Paul Boag on his website about this. I agree with both Paul and Matthew, this site is simply beautiful. It's...

CanyonCreekOnline.com

There are many, MANY church websites out there that unfortunately are terrible. That being said, it's always a breath of fresh air to see a well-done, beautiful church website. I really like the textured, layered look of this site. The layout and content are also well...

perchcom

The overall layout of this site is simple and not particularly inspiring but the illustrations are just great. They really make the site memorable for me. I really love those little yellow birds. Honestly I think it's the mixing of the custom illustrations and the...

theusmangroupcom

I really like a lot of this design, the secondary colors are very subdued allowing the main red color to really shine. There are some good design elements like the jagged shaping around the nav and the horizontal lines on the main copy display area. I do wonder why...

ilovesesame.co.uk

Submitted by Chris Ball @ballzy, Deigner. I really love the "crafty" feel to this design, with the navigation and other elements having a really great "hand made" feel. The twitter bird illustration is a thing of beauty as well. I also love the footer. I think the...

AIGA NY

It might seem surprising that a national design organization website has such a minimal design, but it's a great example of the KISS technique. This minimalist layout places more attention on the content, and the subtle background pattern around the blog excerpts...

gugafit.com

Great illustration goes a long way on a website. I really like how it tells the story of the service right away. The colors are also "childlike" but not overly so. I like all the detail work on this site, the buttons and colors and little flourishes here and there,...

speaklight.com (v2)

Nice rework of the Light CMS website. It keeps some remnants of the past design's colors, but this is much more open and utilizes the white background much better I think. It may be a bit heavy on feature listings on the home page but they are designed/treated well.

johndisco.com/jackgringo/

Really an absurdly simple website, but that's what makes is work for me. No fancy stuff, just presented work. I also like how all the weight is put on the footer area instead of the header. It's a nice divergence from the standard style of giant headline and...

finesttees.com

Well well, it looks like we've found the "unmatched style" of t-shirt designs! Very nice, subtle use of textures and background patterns on this site. The predominantly black and white (with some red) color scheme allows the showcased designs to really stand out....

31three.com (v2)

This design isn't new, but I was a little surprised to see that we hadn't put it in the gallery over the past couple years. It's a really great design and one i've looked at quite a few times when looking for inspiration on my own design projects. We featured the...