Web Design Inspiration Curated

Keasone

I wasn't sure about this design at first but it has grown on me, the background is definately something I haven't seen before, "denim"? But there are a lot of little details the designer worked in that I can't help but appreciate it. There's always a fine line between...

Judith Nem

There's really not much to this website, the point is to showcase Judith Nem's art, a ton of text to place as well. I just find something about this design, simple yet well crafted. Sometimes all it takes is some consistent typography to win me over.

Challies

I particularly like the way this design uses the cool blue palette. It also has enough small details to feel really "finished out".

Keller Adv

This site from Italian agency, Keller Adv, adds some nice texture with the wood background and fabric 'tag' icon that contrasts well with the flatter layout of the content. I have to admit the line drawings at the top creep me out a bit. And, to be learned from their...

Design Snips

This is a twist on the gallery site concept. The type and layout is topnotch and most of the 'snips' are interesting, too.

Marathon Consulting

This website has some interesting things going on. From its serif to sans-serif type usage to the muted color scheme to the grid layout beneath it all, it engages.

Evoke

I'm still not 100% sure of what evoke really is, but in the spirit of providing inspiration at the same time as displaying a good looking dark-background site (which personally I find it hard to work with a dark/black background) this one should hopefully wet your...

Mutado

This is a very different website design. From the color scheme to aspect ratio of the pictures it's top quality, and it'll make you do a double take with its orginality.

GOOD Magazine

Hopefully you can find inspiration from both the design and content of this online magazine. It is well crafted and makes good use of its typographic selections. Very straightforward and rewarding to both look at and read.

Wallop | 9 Mile Studio

Reminds me of the Swiss School of Design, very grid based and uses subtle shifts in color to determine what's more important to take in. Very good use of a dark background and is one of those sites where less is truly more.

Rikcat Industries

This is a beautiful site. Great type choices. All black except for the orange rollovers is a nice touch.

Conde Nast Portfolio

This is the "beta" version of this site. Why can't people just launch sites? If something is broken, I'm not going to forgive them just because of that orange "beta" link. Nonetheless, this a nice site, minus a couple drawbacks, like the dropdown navigation and...

Rochester City Newspaper

I don't often like these newspaper websites' design. This one seems to be able to keep it simple. The ads aren't too overpowering and the sections are well thought out and methodical.

Incase

Incase is a company that makes well designed products, they specialize in their new iPhone cases, which are quite nice. It's always refreshing to see a company that makes well designe products take the same time and care with their own brand and design.

HUGE

Huge has been around a while and worked with some big names, but they always bring a nice clean, simple calm to any design they produce. Their corporate website is a great example.

I Create Things

We create things too, but Colin Cameron's blog re-design is pretty good stuff. Simple, straight-forward and attention to detail make me want to keep reading his posts.

RobGoodlatte.com

The placement of the information on this design is well thought out and clean, then with the textures and torn paper look around all the edges this site has a nice warm quality to it. Well done Rob!

Extendio

Extendio says "We really love simple, clean web sites!" and so do we. This one is a great example of simple design done well.

30elm

Very good use of a long page format. This is a great design, one that I enjoyed clicking around in. The detail pages for the case studies are put together very well. It looks like there was a lot of thought put into the usability of this website.

Wake Interactive

Very good use of color, blue can be sort of "played out" as it's often the choice among so many websites but the way it's used here is fresh. Overall this is a tight design from start to finish.