Web Design Inspiration Curated

Kinder-Aktuell – Parenting

This is just a great site. I like the photography and illustrative quality of it. The dopdown navigation is gorgeous. There's just so much detail and fine design here it makes me happy.

Valen Designs

Submitted by Derek Herman @valendesigns. Valen Designs is the valid standards based portfolio/blog of Derek Herman. The web site sports hand coded semantic CSS/XHTML 1.0 strict and was built on a Mac (PC sucks). This is a very thorough, very pixel perfect and detail...

Show & Tell Sale

Submitted by Jonathan Longnecker from fortysevenmedia.com @47m. A super fun, clean and professional design for children's clothes consignment sales. Another great site by Forty Seven Media This is a really well done website. Nice colors and layout. Plenty of detail...

saddlebackleather.com

This is a great looking website, the colors and imagery perfectly match what the brand is about. There's also not much on this site that hasn't been thought through and designed. There is a lot of fine detail work with this website, you can spend a good amount of time...

sergionoviello.com

This site has really nice clean yet full look to it. The grid could be a little stronger but the nice typography makes up for it. Nice coloring and clever little details make this a great site to review.

asimplemeasure.com

I like the feeling of this site. The hand drawn details are nice, and it really portrays the idea of the product quite well.

ideasonideas.com

Just a simple looking blog, but I love the pixel "look" that he's given the header. There's lot of little clever things tucked into corners on this site. Sometimes it's refreshing to just look at a nice simple blog.

piraja.no

Another dark background site, on a really nice grid and nice coloring. I really like the pages that showcase the work, they are well thought out and contain some extra information on each project. There are lots of little details in the way things slide in and out...

alexbuga.com

This is a really interesting site, it's almost entirely javascript based... It's quite beautifully done in many areas, but there are some things that can leave you confused. The fact that the date of the blog post is given more weight than the title (in such a major...

shauninman.com

I'm not entirely sure when @shauninman redesigned his site, perhaps I'm living under a rock here. But I really like the "pixel" like design, very fun and clever. Definitely original. I'd like to see him take this theme through to his blog that would be fun. Great...

gkoberger.net

Nice simple portfolio site layout, with some nice detail work. I like the big images used on the page and logo is HUGE, I love it.

bcandullo.com

This is the online portfolio of freelance designer/developer Brad Candullo. Very cool textures and background images used in this design. Some of it looks handmade, that's a nice touch to any website. It's a single page layout using a lightbox like script to show...

Tobias Ahlin

This is the portfolio site of Tobias Ahlin @pannpann, he is studying at Hyper Island in Stockholm Sweden. This portfolio site is nice and simple, straight-forward and very usable. His work is very good and deserves a look. There is a ton of great info in the...

ricoverdeo.com

This is just a fun looking little website. The colors are nothing i've seen before in relation to what the site is about. Nice use of jquery to scroll the page sections. I love the rabbit logo.

Kingsford Competition Briquets

This is a new site for Kingsford's competition briquets. It features videos and recipes from Chris Lilly. This is a great microsite design for Kingsford by Kerry Nehil, who we've covered before on the site and in our podcast. I love the crisp coloring and nicely done...

Stone Laboratory

Submitted by George Oommen @stonelab, the site's Designer & Developer. The website follows the print identity and tries to tie everything together with various graphics elements. The site focus on the most relevant content to the students. There is also a lot of flash...

Espira Tecnologias Web

Submitted by Jorge Gonzalez @jorgeespira. Espira is a web design studio in Alicante, Spain. Our new website have been redesigned, now is dirty, grunge and handwriting. I absolutely love the hand-drawn quality of the elements on this website. It sets it apart...

heirsearch.com

Submitted by Dan Hoy, here's what he had to say: I think the design does a good job of meeting the overall needs of the client- professional image, user-focused navigation etc. good use of technologies (Jquery) ie: http://heirsearch.co (cycle plugin)...

tjphweb.com

Submitted by Thomas Henocque, here's what he had to say: TJPH is a freelance web designer and web developer based in Montreal, Canada. Services include graphic design, programming, logo, identity, SEO, consultin Nice looking design, the fence idea is clever and makes...

GZ Design

Nice looking, very agency looking, website design. The dark background and other background imagery are just "pixel-perfect" and nice to look at. This is a straight-up simple design agency looking website but there's something about doing something simple and straight...