The thing I like the most about this website design is the icons on the left-hand side of the page. Those are just so warm and fun with the watercolor effect. Also, I really love this trend of heavily illustrated designs making the submission pool here.
timothybsmith.com
I really dig Tim Smith's blog, each post sports a different design. It's inspiring to come across something like this. I love how he's taking into consideration the entire page for the post which ends up representing the website as a whole for each post. This one in...
danielbuettner.net
Functionally, danielbuettner.net is a basic site. It's a portfolio site with all the normal pages. It's real interest is the illustrations. By and large the illustration style is pretty entertaining though it does push the actual content a ways down the page. I...
redup.co.uk
I really like the light touch this website design seems to have. It feels open and airy while at the same time it's fairly dense with content. The illustrations are super great, love the rocket ship! I also like how the home page is designed like a long scrolling...
humboldt-web.com
I like the strong illustration work that props up this design. Without it, it would be a very boring layout but the illustrations make it sing. I also like the colors, the blue and magenta are a nice pairing.
designmadeingermany.de
This design kind of blows my mind a little with the fixed background image that changes as you scroll. It makes for a super engaging experience and almost feels like art in and of itself. I love this! Great line work on the illustration, too.
kimthemovie.com
Kimthemovie.com is a site promoting and featuring a movie about domestic violence. It seems to have an educational motive which is cool, though it took me a minute to understand what I was looking at. As you can see by the thumbnail the site feels way off kilter,...
billlynchassociates.com
Generally speaking, billlynchassociates.com is fairly pedestrian as a site worthy of designer scrutiny. It doesn't have a great many bells and whistles (you know, all the jazzy progressive stuff that we all obsess about) but it would be unfair to dismiss a design...
cure.org
Jay and I really like this website design, there are some really great interactions and strong detail work here. In our screen cast review we give some better detail. Overall we are very impressed with the level of finish and detail in this website. There is a TON of...
easypeasee.com
NIce fun illustrations that help ease the visitor into reading more. The little illustrations over the FAQs is also a nice touch. I also like the drop down navigation design.
heyindy.com
Heyindy.com pretty much rocks your socks off. The site is simple, elegant and fun. It has a nice balance of typography and art and a simple modular structure that is easy to understand. The colors are varied but muted, which works well as a backdrop to the the content...
rocketclub.info
If you can get past that loading scree, this is a pretty nice looking website design. I like the rich texture in the background image. I also really like the typography, it has that slight retro vibe. I do wish the subpages used a different header so it didn't push...
thrivesolo.com
I don't normally link up too many "coming soon" sites/pages, but this one is interesting from both a design and execution standpoint. I like the visible grid lines, it speaks to all us designers visually and the colors drive that home with the orange and black for...
bza.co
Bza.co is kind of like etsy for fine artist (not taking away from etsy, which is awesome). Its design is modular by necessity and that works pretty well overall, but the header feels a little disjointed and some of the links seem understated. The separation between...
hellocarbon.ca
Really clever design, with the fixed side graphic that changes color as you scroll down. This single page design also feels full of content and that the single page-ness of it is a conscious decision to deliver that sidebar image. The design also delivers some nice...
Virb.com – Full Website Review
Virb.com is a beautifully understated meditation on simplicity and elegance. By careful selection of how much content to show the viewer, virb.com presents a soft and open layout that is easy to scan and establishes a distinct and refined hierarchy. virb.com also puts...
doodlepad.co.za
Nice simple layout that makes the split calls to action stand out. The illustrations help guide you to those two points as well. I like the illustrative feel of the site, I think it could have gone farther in pushing that but it's a well rounded out look for this site...
826chi.org
Pretty straightforward design and execution here, but the large horizontal shape gives it some much needed impact. It also really drives your eye across and down the page. I really like the call out box next to the big image for the slideshow too, that little 3D...
irontoiron.net
Both Gio and I love this website design. We get into it in more detail in the screen cast review we did but overall we really enjoyed this design. The textured background and colors are beautifully done as is the large illustration of the anvil. The interactions are...
pbs.org
This is the new layout for the PBS.org website, there are a lot of design details that really work here. There are also some that don't work so well for me, like the big sliding image gallery near the header. It's confusing as to the context of the images and you...
thesquad.com.au
Off the bat, this site looked coo wIth the big illustration of the team members. When you click on a team member it loads them in the foreground - nice effect. I really like the feel of this site. The gray tones with the green worked on top of it all is very nice....
prettypollution.com.au
Really beautiful colors on this design, I also love the dark blue with that slight texture. It almost feels like cloth. I like the blocky nature of the elements in contrast to those colors and slight texture. I like that slide out box in the top right, I like the idea...
digitallabs.tv
This website doesn't beat around the bush, it's straight forward portfolio. I suppose that's just as effective as a full out site. What's nice about this is it's not just a single page job, the work samples have their own dedicated page with plenty of detail. The look...
icelab.com.au
This is a really beautiful website, the colors and light textures mixed in with some great illustration work make for a super great experience. Looking at the experience of the site there are lots of great little spots that just shine, like the mouse over on the logo...
rowtothepole.com
In my and Giovanni's screen cast review we both really liked the vertical parallax effect in the background. However at a certain point we felt like it actually beings to interfere with your ability to read the text on the page. We'd love to hear your thoughts on...
freshtilledsoil.com
I like the overall organization to this website, both the look & feel and content organization. I like the stark nature to the look, the white background and black and grays with the orange call to action color works cleanly and also gives it a high-end studio feel. I...
tweettoremind.org
Pretty cool look to this site, I really dig that logo. I'm not wild about the iframe display of the tweets and stuff but the other parts of the design make up for it. I like the brown in contrast to the green in the logo and elsewhere, then the orange is a perfect...
youknowwhodesign.com
Website redesign for Sarah Parmenter's (@sazzy) business. I love this site, it's such an eclectic looking design with the imagery and colors. It's also refreshing to see a fully developed and mature website content wise instead of the standard single page designer...
themeskingdom.com
Nice solid typography and color in this design. I also really like the soft feel to the type on this background compared to the hard or loudness of the red used throughout the site. The conceptual portion of this site is good too, the "kingdom" or "knight" stuff is...
geomicons.com
Aside from being some really nifty icons, this one page site is great. I love this layout, with the overall shape containing the content being really just a big page icon. The colors work well together and the overall simple nature of the artwork and type choice...
