Pretty slick looking design. I love the colors and illustration work a lot. I also really dig the interactions/animations on the main marquee blocks - those are just great. Overall a really great and simple experience picked up by some clever illustration and...
I dig the new Ad Age website. I like the top section that has the black background and how it uses that section for featured content. As you make your way down the page there's some nice "sectioning" of specific styles of content. I love how the header section changes...
The Five Simple Steps isn't one of those sites that has tons of interactions and moving elements. But the design is simple and effective. I really like how the main hero image/area isn't just a big JPG, that'd be lazy, they add the extra effort and make the text...
This is a great example of how you can use a simple game like experience to create something memorable. Go ahead, click the colored boxes, they "pop" like one of those addicting games on your phone. The overall website experience is superb for a product/company site...
Great design and vibe throughout this site design. I like the transitions between screen widths too. Loud coloring to help push the products as well as bold previews of the artwork itself.
I'm not a surfer, nor live near an ocean, but if I did i'd use this app just because of the website. I love the slight animation of the waves and the little mouse interactions here and there.
New site design for Subtraction, which is Khoi Vinh's personal website. Know to be pretty prolific in writing posts i've been a visitor to his blog for years. The new site follows the same basic form that the old one did with the black and white treatment and lines....
The CodeKit page/site is one of the better product pages i've seen. Plenty of good design down the page, animation, funny little sections and a superb overview of the guts of the app itself.
Nice slick feel to the design. I like the soft almost washed out colors, almost black and white feel to the design. Things move well and the rhythm is good as you make your way down the page. I also really dig the plan a project form.
The latest version of Frank Chimero's personal website is just great. I love that it's largely traditional in that the nav is just there on the left, in text form, for anyone to see and click. It's this kind of understated beauty that reminds me why I love what I do....
What a great reading experience the Fjord Trends site turns out to be. Both on the desktop and your mobile device. I love how the stories flow with nice bold blocks of imagery then "fold" out so you can read them right there. The tracking nav on the right side (when...
The Squarespace Blog is very simple at first glance. Keeping all the relevant content for the post (or most recent post) front and center. You can slide open a list of past posts, that have nice little hover effects of the images. On the right is the now standard...
So... as soon as I saw this site, I fired up the Keurig. The black, white, gray and coffee brown immediately put me in a mood to enjoy coffee. The entire site is centered around the brand's tagline: "Rich. Dark. European." The background images, the parallax effects,...
Really cool looking mix of tight straight edges and hand made type treatments, mixed with the sepia colored imagery. This site has a nice hand made feel but also very high end. The slight movement of the images behind the type overlays add that extra little dimension...
Engaging illustrative website. There's also plenty of interaction stuff happening on the home page to keep you interested. The thing I like most is that it's not intrusive at all. You can engage with it by continuing to scroll or not. The look and feel of the site is...
Really super simple page. Normally something this scaled back wouldn't make it into the gallery, but wait - click the "features" link. That's why it's in here. Very smart effect.
The Toby's Story site is just fun. There's really no functional aspect to it, like a call to action or newsletter signup but you know what I don't care. It's cute and exists solely just to be a fun little experiment. I always love seeing that there's someone out there...
Great new site launched for Astorino Architects from the mighty Bearded Studio team. I love the clean layout and responsive design decisions made between the different screen widths. There's a good bit to study and apply from this sit to all of our projects....
Realtii does a great job of using animation to focus the user's attention on key details. The colors are soft and friendly. A pleasant site with simple detailing.
There's a lot to like about this website. But the best part is the interactive illustration on the home page. It's pretty fun to mouse over that little gear and get all the arrows and stuff to show up. Also check it out on smaller screen widths, the stuff that get's...
Man I love these illustrations! Super slick and both clean and illustrative at the same time. I like that it's a single page layout - that works pretty well for this instance. Enough eye candy and simplicity to get the site to work for them.
The Adam Woodhouse website is clearly a design intended to impress with lush, complex animations and a strong graphical sensibility. Not responsive, but beautiful nonetheless. Plus, Bender.
Nothing super rule breaking about this but it's become commonplace for companies to put things like their employee handbook or benefits info on a website or resource like that. The Zaarly Employee Handbook is just sexy. Nothing more needed to say about it other than...
I can't recall where I saw this description for the map design from first (if it's you please let us know in the comments below) but I it sums it up perfectly: Awesome interactive travel map for Belize. Featuring three levels of zoom with css animations, jQuery photo...
The Seattle Cider Company website uses flat illustrations and simple interactions to control the narrative of the cider making process. The design style is hip and minimal with a few nifty tricks (like the slide-in fixed nav) and a lot of character. The narrative...
This is a fast loading video based site that was made for a large screen. It has subtle parallax elements that don't detract from the main video feature of the site. They could probably go with a cleaner social media linking system, but since it's a new product site,...
Love the colors and icon/illustration work on this site. The layout is pretty formulaic by design trend standards but sometimes that's okay and with well designed elements you can really make things sing.
There is some really neat design stuff going on with this site. I love how the "Rijks Museum" overlays and play with the slider. Then the top nav is just fun to mess with. Nice responsive work here too.
Offscreenmag.com looks great at all screen sizes. I really enjoy the balance of the typography and soft grays. The site does a great job of balancing a lot of information with a minimal design language. Simple and elegant. We get the mag and that's nifty too. 🙂
Vest provides a really nice loading experience, considering it is a site that transfers 1.4MB when loaded. The main view loads a simple graphic and then loads in the heavier images whenever they are a available. The effect is something like a load screen that doesn't...
