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Cleek

Cleek

Neat, one page agency site that looks like a poster - a poster with css animations and hints of parallax. It's a different style than most agencies use, adding some uniqueness to the agency site landscape. Plus - what other sites have a slot-machine-fashion-plate-like...

Justin Aguilar

Justin Aguilar

Really like Justin's use of navigation, both in the Work section, and in the header. It's different, active, animated, and gets away from the proverbial hamburger menu icon - which is always a good thing. The rest of the site is clean and crisp, with some good demos...

Sam Goddard

Sam Goddard

Cool portfolio site that looks like Sam is into trying out new stuff - including some nice animations and icon work. Like in the Work areas how he specifically refers to what skills he used per project, instead of  a nebulous skill set dashboard like most portfolios....

Premium Draught

Premium Draught

A good one page site that seems to be an extension of the growler fill station itself (making the site background / tecture look like the chalkboards in the store). In the mobile version, they've made the menu more accessible for your phone, without resorting to a...

FHOKE

FHOKE

We've reviewed some of FHoke's work before (i.e., Judgement Day) so cool that we get a look at their agency site. Really like the interaction of the jQuery masonry on the Portfolio page (we did this for a client recently - not as easy as it looks to pull off right) -...

Cobble Hill

Cobble Hill

We're back from BDConf Nashville - and as much fun as we had, we're happy to look at site from South Carolina. Cobble Hill's site is crisp and clean, and uses it's images really well within the mostly black and white site. The Featured Work pages come together nicely,...

TEDxGUC

TEDxGUC

Man, what a cool home page. We're at BDConf right now, and had a few of our speakers talking about the importance of "if you're going to use animation on your website - use it right" - tell a story with it. This site follows that rule to a T. Submitted by: Rana...

Ben Brignell

Ben Brignell

Let's start this morning off with a good one - Ben Brignell does that for us! I really like the entire site - from the animation opening on the home page, to the javascript color changes you can make on the About page,  to the project tags in his Work area (how many...

Fat Media

Fat Media

Definitely like how Fat Media is doing the foreground / background imaging with a different slant (figuratively and literally). The scrolling animation seems pretty seamless on the home page - and like the hover state of the staff on the home page too. Submitted by:...

Massimo’s Cucina Italiana

Massimo’s Cucina Italiana

We love websites that make great use of fonts, and Massimo's Cucina Italiana uses a couple of different fonts, accent illustrations, vibrant pictures, and black, white, and gray to tell the story of their restaurant. Simple, and effective. Submitted by: Landon Poburan...

Nicole Azzopardi

Nicole Azzopardi

Great use of parallax with flying flower petals, bios, and a singer. Also like the use of texture in one of the sections, and then subtler parallax in another section to give some differentiation. Submitted by: Justin Sammut Role: Designer

Tourism Tofino

Tourism Tofino

Cool use of different elements and shapes to give clear section delineations on the home / single page design. Also like the only drop-down in the top right corner (arrow) that works as a dashboard for the site. Submitted by: Jim Morris @ventureweb Role: Agency

Janko at Warp Speed

Janko at Warp Speed

Hallo Janko! You probably know we see a lot of portfolio sites from graphic and web designers, but not as much from interaction / dashboard designers and developers (if that is a separate category). Janko's site has a cool feel to it, and in the Works area, you get a...

Lisa Bun Designs

Lisa Bun Designs

Cool to see portfolio sites from graphic designers. They always put a little more into the aesthetic design of the site like Lisa has. Fits with her motto of "Be Creative, Keep it Simple". This is the website and portfolio of Lisa Bun, a graphic and web designer in...

SoSweet! Creative

SoSweet! Creative

Nice strong colors and graphic feel to this design. I really like the beating heart when the page loads up. I extra dig the way the contact form loads in too, nice touch. Submitted by: Stephen Scaff @SoSweetCreative Role: Designer & Developer SoSweet! Creative is...

Christopher Ware

Christopher Ware

Just a really clean and nicely subdued site design for a designer. I like it much. Submitted by: Christopher Ware @christopherware Role: Designer & Developer

The News Generator

The News Generator

Nice layout, it uses a lot of tried and true layout but it just feels a little different to me. I really dig the way the main signup form is right in the center of the home page but not in your face at the same time. Some clever form field design to go along with it...

Bozi Oko

Bozi Oko

We leave you today with the type of site we see very rarely (for now - see this as a trend in the coming years) - you can scroll through a virtual tour of this resort in the Czech Republic. Looking at the code - each scroll forward or backward is an individual mapped...

digitalatelier.ro

digitalatelier.ro

We like seeing sites that mix it up a little, but still keep a sense of simplicity. This one does that - horizontal transitions on top of a cool background image (get it... top... cool...?). Like the flipper that holds the page headline at the top. Also - looks like...

Visual Kitchen

Visual Kitchen

We've seen a lot of animated gifs - most of them are some crazy cat/dog/weird meme. Luckily, Visual Kitchen uses them to give a little bit of cool expression, coupled with a semi-transparent reveal of content as you scroll down. The drop-down header menu, with the...

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Draft Episode 03: Art Direction

Draft is a podcast about the craft of designing for the web, in this episode we discuss the role of the Art Director. Featuring Giovanni DiFeterici and Gene Crawford.

Pushing the Creative Boundaries with Canvas

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