Fun. It's something that a lot of people can't do well. This site can. The Root Studio site is full of fun looking visuals which lead you to think they're fun people. Bam, the brand has won. Good stuff.
31three
Really beautifully designed website from 31three- hint: their sites always are... I love the butterfly and how it's used and the soft deckled edges under the main nav bar. Nice simple responsive design FTW.
Pan Fried Pixels
I love this design. It's simple yet deep enough visually to not come off overly so. I like the project planner design a lot. The way the projects are displayed and are animated via the mouse over is well placed within the experience too. I dig it.
Morris
Cool vibe to this site design for Morris. I like the colors and they way the elements are presented. It feels kind of fresh and has that "mobile" vibe to it visually. Pretty neat.
Bearded
New Bearded. 'nuff said. But really, it's super slick and simplified beauty. It's this type of thing that makes me really love hate these guys. They even had the gaul to give us a pretty good write up about the redesign too: I’m constantly reminded of a Hemingway...
Headspace
I love the look of this site. It has hard edges and a rigid typeface but it still keeps a soft feel to it all at the same time. It's party color and imagery and rhythm that keeps it feeling open and inviting. Great work all around visually on this.
Harewood
The Harewood site is a great example of how to deliver something that's responsive and still have that "RWD look" but also elegant at the same time. I like a lot of this design and at the same time sniff several tried and true visual RWD patterns at work here.
Barcamp Omaha
The Barcamp Omaha website is just beautiful. I love just about every aspect to it, but the thing that I dig most is the illustration work that sets the tone. It promises a pretty well organized Barcamp; quality is driven home via the visual branding. I only wish I...
I’m Sonny
Fun site. I love the animated pieces worked into the site design. It's a clean subtle design underpinning everything that lets the fun stuff be delivered so successfully here too. Submitted by: Sonny Chen Role: Designer & Developer It is my design portfolio...
sharondaddihair.com
What a unique design for this salon. I feel like it's really something different for what most people experience with their salon's website. It's subtle and very smooth feeling as you go through it to me.
few.io
Really beautiful and wispy design for the few.io site. I really dig the open vibe to the design and just about everything else that goes with it. Also, that is some epic beardage across the team there.
Pushreel
Looks like a pretty useful project, backed up by a nice simple and well designed page. I really dig the signup form elements and the way the nav works with the site overall. Smart stuff. Submitted by: Michael Moran @mike_moran_ Role: Designer & Developer Beautiful...
BruteProtect
There's a lot of well tread design patterns in play on the BruteProtect site, but they're done pretty well and that goes a long way. The sections are also broken up in interesting ways, like the use of the visual timeline for example. The best part is the contact form...
Shoot
The team from Lullabot have released an app called Shoot. Pretty neat concept for an app. The website for it is top notch. Shows off the app, takes mobile into consideration heavily (you'd be surprised...) and is just plain neat to check out on it's own. Great work...
This is Craig
Thank the gods of the interwebs that there is finally a designer portfolio page that has everything you want in a significant other - smart, beautiful, and funny. We joke around here sometimes that we would like to change the message of our client services website to...
Build Films
I love the vibe of this site. The colors and use of the video work. I also dig the side bar navigation scheme, with it being fixed etc... Submitted by: Madison Zyluk @verdadesign Role: Designer Responsive website for a video production company in Winnipeg, Canada....
Cornell
One of the better responsive higher ed site's i've ever reviewed. There's tons of nice design patterns in play here as well as other detail work. What's most striking is that the responsive design isn't just the home page, but seems to go pretty deep throughout the...
ps.design v6
Nice clean simple website for a web designer's portfolio. I like the long form write ups and just the simple showing of work. Submitted by: Phil Stringfellow @psdesignuk Role: Designer & Developer This is v6 of my personal website and portfolio, featuring parallax...
St. Joseph’s Prep
The St. Joseph's Prep website is quite nice. I like the video background and how when the page scales down to smaller widths they swap out for a static image and then down to nothing for mobile devices. Nice strong easy to scan grid design too. Looks to be powered by...
JOEY Restaurant Group
Decent responsive effort on the JOEY Restaurant Group website, it doesn't appear to scale all the way down past say an iPad width though. I like how they keep the home page short and succinct and stuff.
Airbus Group
Pretty cool grid based layout, very solid. I'm not wild about using the hamburger icon alone as the navigation kick off for all screen widths and stuff. But I do give them points for just sticking with it. Airbus Group (formerly EADS), the largest aviation and...
Borja González
Borja has a cool CSS feature that you probably don't on your portfolio site - a dial that brings up different content. Why should you care - because portfolio sites should not just be about showing your previous work, but also to: Try. New. Things. So go this weekend,...
Konnu
The things I would have said about Konnu's website were exactly what their founder said about it (below). Added to what he said, I like how the navigation works in the mobile version - gives it a little of the current app navigation feel. Submitted by: Tim Vanhalewyck...
84colors
Christiana Bardeanu's portfolio site shows off her work, and probably shows off a little of who she is a human too. She has her portfolio of work page which is good, but pay special attention to the floral background images - then go to her blog, and you'll see her...
Ash Edmondson
Great portfolio site that is simple, but has some sweet subtle functionality items that make it cool. And make sure you look at his resume - if Ash is this detail oriented with his resume, pretty sure he is with his work...
Mercer Tavern
The majority of restaurant websites are awful. Period. Mercer Tavern's website on the opposite side of the spectrum. They prove that you can make a great restaurant website, that is clean, cool, and small. The pictures make the site cool, and the literal white space...
The New Yorker
We've watched over the years as purveyors of print have made uneasy transitions to the web. Last week, the redesign The New Yorker's website shows they've worked hard to translate their magazine into the modern interwebs. Great use of the images and typefacing that...
Arkansas Razorbacks
Football (Gridiron) season is in a couple of weeks. Even though this isn't my favorite team, really like their website. The large images and videos give it a bold and loud feeling, that translates really well if you're a fan.
WILD
Um... yeah... where to start? Astronauts rotating around text? Parallax of a boxer being counted out? Wild navigation scheme that makes it fun to move around the site? Hamburger icon that animates into an X? Or the easter egg of all easter eggs - Arnie, with an...
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...
