La Migliore Pasta

La Migliore Pasta

Man! I love the illustrations on this website. I can stare at them all day! They are well done and the animations that load them up as you scroll down the page for the first time are very well timed. The colors and style all work so well with the content too. Lovely,...

USA Road Trip Recommender

USA Road Trip Recommender

This website is fun. It's fun to use and has fun content. It makes me want to go get in the car and start driving around the country. Cool stuff. The interactions need no instruction and you can be playing with it in seconds. Good stuff. From the Designer: "Using an...

Black Market Roasters

Black Market Roasters

A strong grid and blocky design elements always make a good pair. Throw in some good photography and you have a winner. From the Designer: We are the dudes that source, roast & deliver fresh roasted coffee. From our base in Sydney, Australia, we run Barista...

Here we com

Here we com

I like the illustrations, like the ice berg and some of the sub sections of this website more than the overall layout itself. It's a strong website through and through, but some of it formulaic, then when you discover some of the sub sections you see what it is and...

Sweep Studio

Sweep Studio

Sometimes simple is all you need to let the value of the work show through. This site is a perfect example of that and showing restraint. Take heed and enjoy. From the Designer: Sweep Studio is a Toronto based creative consultancy specializing in graphic design for...

Acorns

Acorns

It's a subtle thing but the way the main "hero" image slightly scrolls over the header/display copy is brilliantly done. Then there are other targeted little interactions and animations that really sells the "high class" vibe of this site design. This website is...

Haven

Haven

This product based website for Haven is beautifully done. I love the large hero style image and the way the elements "load in". I love the way things appear as you scroll down the page and the blocking of content together the way they've done. It's also very slick...

Star Wars – Again

Star Wars – Again

But first - May the Fourth Be With You We plan always review the Star Wars site for May 4th - because, that's what you do on May 4th if you run a web design inspiration gallery for geeks and nerds all across the universe (or world - we're working on the former). I...

Tiger Challenge

Tiger Challenge

We here at Unmatchedstyle apologize for falling off the map last week a little - we were running one of our web designer conferences, getting ready to teach our Iron Yard class, and one of us had a baby... either way - we thought we'd start the week off with an...

Purple Rock Scissors

Purple Rock Scissors

Best use of video background work (and other things too) we've seen so far - coming from Purple Rock Scissors out of Orlando. Every page has a hand-crafted look - whether it's the fast loading video backgrounds, the animated SVG work, or that cool list view with...

Cast Iron Design

Cast Iron Design

Man - this is some sweet work from Cast Iron Design out of Boulder, Colorado. After going back through the site, I almost made this a Friday in-depth review. They go straight to the heart of showing off their work on the home page, using this trend of background image...

Good Fortune & Wildflower

Good Fortune & Wildflower

Love these sites from Resn out of New Zealand. They use Canvas / WebGL for a "quick" site. The Wildflower site you can share with a loved one.. over Twitter (or FB). There's some zen to all of it. Two related projects by same company, showcasing generated flowers on...

Eau de design

Eau de design

We really like this site from Stephane Varnizy out of Paris. Excellent movement on scroll and in the drawing of the SVGs. Also really like the coloring - and the Portfolio - good stuff there.   From the Designer: Hi, my name is Stéphane Varnizy and I’m a French...

FHOKE

FHOKE

Reviewed Fhoke.com out of the UK less than 1 year ago....https://unmatchedstyle.com/gallery/fhoke.php - and like their new stuff. Listen, anyone who uses orange + full width + 880px headshots on the About page, is going big and bold with their design. That's how they...

Plug and Play

Plug and Play

Plug and Play out of London has an interesting site.  The content parts are fairly basic, and you might even think Bootstrap in those areas - but there are parts of the site that I really like. I'm really into movement on sites right now, so like the movement into the...

Search For Energy

Search For Energy

Like the flat illustrations from Search For Energy site, done by Create the Bridge out of Texas. Also like the work with the Energy Usage Calculator on the Knowledge Center page. There are some navigation issues (mainly on the Login page - so assuming it's a...

Federation Square

Federation Square

I like the blocky-ness to this layout. Though at first it comes off as little cluttery looking, I find myself liking the way the navigation is done. The small black line with standard nav items and then the larger more central nav items under that to stand out more is...

Sporting Dog PRO

Sporting Dog PRO

I'm going to be honest - I wasn't sure on this one at first. It's an e-commerce site from Sporting Dog Pro out of Charlotte, North Carolina. I wasn't sure about it, because my perspective is slightly skewed - I see agency and portfolio sites 20 times daily, and might...

Small Studio

Small Studio

Whoah. I'm not sure where to start on the agency site from Small Studio out of Melbourne, Australia. There is so much going on, and for the most part it seems seamless design-wise (I'm still a little tripped up on what the balloon is in the client dashboard area - but...

Flick Electric

Flick Electric

This Flick Electric site out of New Zealand, done by Traverse Digital in Wellington, is an example of breaking through barriers in an industry that is classically resistant to change (at least in the design sense). Flick looks to be a power / electric company that...

pixelsmart.de

pixelsmart.de

What I like about the pixelsmart agency site out of  Germany is that they stick to a theme throughout the site - honey comb or angled view of a cube and turn it into a flat icon, you get a hexagon which shape is utilized heavily in their content design. It looks good...

New Media Studio

New Media Studio

Love the stark white that is the canvas for New Media Studio out of Toronto - mainly because of the Northern Lights video background - cool intro. Like the filtered search on the Work page, and like that it's not jQuery Masonry. And I think I'll have to change some...

Paquebot inc

Paquebot inc

Ok - turn your sound down or click it off on the top left when you get to Paquebot - but the ditty works for this agency site out of Tokyo because it fits well with the time-lapse video. And the time-lapse video makes this one-pager "sing" - love the way it feels like...

Lift Interactive

Lift Interactive

Love it when we get a chance to review sites a second (and third time) like Lift Interactive out of Edmonton. They've made another good one here. Like the mix of text treatments, b/w background images / color images / flat color illustrations. It all seems to work as...

Lab Coworking Space

Lab Coworking Space

The color theme really brings me into this site, and the simple imagery makes it feel like a 'home away from home'.  For those nomads and coworkers like me out there a nice cowork is a must, and the clean/crisp/simple feel of the site speaks up about this place in a...

Innovate Map

Innovate Map

Solid midwestern work from InnovateMap out of Indianapolis (borrowing from the designer below). Like this trend to have softer edges on images, more of an Instagram feel when it comes to portraying companies (compared to sites that have stark, bright, fake / stock...

Beagle

Beagle

This Beagle app site (A tool for creating better proposals) looks to be designed by Podio in conjunction with Spring / Summer out of Copenhagen, Denmark. Listen, scroll-jacking as a designer may not be your thing, but when you see how tight this site is - you may...

efingo

efingo

Like this portfolio site from Catalin Boroi out of Bucharest - his illustrations are cool - but also like how it looks like an envelope to start with, but opens to a clean website with some vertical nav after that. From the Designer: efingo is my personal portfolio....

Into the Vineyard

Into the Vineyard

After putting on ConvergeSE last week, needed a decent site to ease into gallery reviews for UMS - Into The Vineyard out of Vancouver did that for me. My wife and I love wine and travel - so good combo. I like the flow and imagery of the site. And I know that you may...

WEBARQ

WEBARQ

  We don't get may sites to review out of Indonesia, so we're happy to see the WEBARQ site out of Jakarta (and I personally have good memories of there and Bali... but that's for another day). They have some cool artwork on the site that is also used for...