Web Design Inspiration Curated

Kingdom Landscapes

Submitted by Jonathan Longnecker, @47m. Designer & Developer. An earthy, elegant portfolio site for a custom landscape designer. Another great site by the very talented team at fortysevenmedia.com. This design uses all the basics well, well placed texture, very sharp...

premiumthemes.net

Submitted by Bhavesh R, @rbhavesh. Designer & Developer. Love the strategic layout that highlights the latest product. Colors, typography and layout balance is top-notch. While there's nothing special about this layout, it's not revolutionary, and i've seen this...

RocketFuel

Submitted by Reuben Brunson, @gorocketfuel. Designer. RocketFuel provides professional website design, a simple content management system, powerful internet marketing, and accessible web expertise located in Memphis, Tennessee. I really love this site design. There's...

freelanceswitch.com

There's a ton of stuff to review in the new Freelance Switch website, maybe it needs to go into the podcast, but here's some quick observations: I do really like this design, it's very well done. It puts emphasis on the important parts of the page, the headers of the...

55eleven

Submitted by Josh Puckett, @joshpuckett. Designer & Developer. A design portfolio that features a clean and minimal design, though portraying the designer's work in a simple and highly accessible manner. Really good simple looking design portfolio site. I like how the...

The Energy Cell

Submitted by Dave Whitehead - Designer & Developer. I think this submission is a worthy candidate as not only does it have an original, attractive design and is easy to use, the whole site passes Strict XHTML validation. First impressions when I arrive on this site...

bigcartel.com

This is simply a beautiful website. It's very straightforward and simple in it's presentation yet very deep and layered in content and design detail. The typography is gorgeous and very thorough. The background image that wraps around the main content area really...

finaleyes.org

This is a great simple very informative website. It puts text/copy at the forefront and graphic elements second. Yet it has great hierarchy which is all done with simple typographic layout choices. This is minimalism at it's best in my opinion. Found via @simmy &...

elliotjaystocks.com

Elliot Jay Stocks new website update is simply fantastic. From the textures to the way the javascript effects are used to the big footer section this site is a clinic in how to do a personal portfolio style website. Spend some time with this site, it's chock full of...

slicemachine.com

This site features a really clever marquee type space that describes the process of working with them. It stands out and is very memorable, which is great when you can work something like that into your design.

boxee

The new(ish) site for Boxee, I just love it. The design is very clean and has a couple of really clear calls-to-action. The typography isn't as clean and neat as it could be, it's actually quite difficult to read in places, particularly the "Features & Benefits"...

queensfilmtheatre.com

The way the logo is designed onto the page is very dynamic and really forces you to scan right into that main header block. The dark background also accentuates this tracking movement somehow. I think the top half of this site is the strongest visually, as you move...

anywhichway.co.uk

Another minimal and stark black & white website. Except this site uses color very strategically and every detail has been worked through. The typography is well done and there are interesting graphics and other little design elements throughout the site. They even...

JD&Co.

Submitted by Jacob Lee. A small web design company based in Chester with a clean minimalistic design. Uniquely presented content with subtle interactivity. Rather minimal site design, this one may be a little too minimal for it's own good. I really like the concept of...

Catnap Games

Submitted by Tomas Andrle. We just launched a fresh website redesign, this time it's more graphically rich, uses JQuery and the Django framework for the code, instead of PHP. Very graphically rich website, I love the background imagery and most of the imagery/art used...

idsgn.org

Aside from having some great content, this design blog is visually great. I love the simple nature of it, letting the posts really jump forward and having the design recede into the background, that's how you're supposed to do it. This design also has some really well...

Trost Design

Submitted by Ruben Araiza, @eldroid. Very good looking single page portfolio style website. I love the typography and little illustrations across this website. It's a very tightly designed and very simple layout.

Lucky Stars Tattoo

Lucky Stars Tattoo is a premier tattoo studio in San Jose, CA. Stylish, scalable and unique layout. It's not too often you get to review a Tattoo site, usually they are too crazy or don't follow any sort of web standards at all (maybe i'm being to...

Spoof University

Fun illustration is what really makes this site. We've used a few scripts as well to enhance the experience. All in all it's a fun site. This is just a nice tight little site that has some great illustration and layout. All the elements on this site are really sharp...

ccfannualreport.com

Submitted by Bobby Marko, @bobbymarko. Built on Wordpress and leveraging jQuery for effects, this simple Online Annual Report was designed to make the information from the print document easy to access online. This design is crazy! I love the look and feel of it, the...