This design is nothing but fun. I love the realistic elements worked into the design, I also like how the content areas of the site work with all those graphic elements pretty seamlessly. The illustrations are great and I think the site shows them off well.
stream.simplebits.com
It's neat to see Dan Cederholm move to tumbler for his blog platform - I happen to really love tumbler so it's cool to see that for what it's worth. Of course you don't expect to be let down by anything Dan produces, and with this newest iteration of simplebits i'm...
sarawhite.com
Really nice simple layout, I like the illustration of the tree in the upper right corner and the grid/column work. The tumbler blog is a nice match to this page too, be sure to check it out and give the designer a follow.
jeffbatterton.com
I like how there is a strong top-half and bottom-half in this website design. The heavy top with the slideshow and dark gray background really offsets the bottom-half with it's white background and obvious 4 column grid.
reklama-audio.pl
Pretty cool throwback illustration items with matching colors and type treatment. If you're going to go in a direction like this with your design you need to make sure it's cohesive and that it convinces, I think this design does that - it could likely be taken...
ithacaevents.com
ithacaevents.com's home page is very active. To a large extent, I think this is handled pretty well. The color palette is rich and varied without looking clownish, the typography is simple and contemporary, and a fairly well established visual hierarchy has created a...
50back.com
I love the tight crisp lines in this design. The colors are bold and strong, like a beer brand based after "America" would no doubt look like. The flourish shape at the bottom of each dropdown is a nice detail, in fact this site has many little well done details....
KISS Metrics & Insights
Both of these sites belong in the gallery, they are both well done and the designs are very professional. They're similar and i'd say sister/brother products so that's why we've featured them together. K.I.S.S. or Keep It Simple Stupid - couldn't have said that better...
lechti.com
Neat vibe to the design of this site for me. The color palette here is very nice and the subtle textures are well done. There is however a ton of stuff going on in this design, I know that that's sometimes necessary and the designer has done a good job of balancing it...
posterroast.com
I like the blockiness of this design. The colors and textures really speak to the screen printed medium too. I also like the slight little 3D page fold elements tossed here and there. There are some areas where the type is set full justified and that doesn't work for...
todaysdocument.com
I really love the color choices and all the little detail work put into this site. Nice subtle use of webkit elements here and there as well. The illustrative quality to this site is really what makes it shine and keeps it approachable to the average person as well....
midcenturymodernist.com
I find this site to be a beautiful example of a blog layout. The grid based design, the type choices and yet it's all very readable and scannable. Really great site, and it's a dark background site too, I usually don't like that type of site too much. Perhaps it's all...
basecamphq.com (v3)
Yeah, yeah, I know. We recently did a design review of the conversion process on basecamphq.com, thing is the very next day they rolled out a design. The new design is very well done, and largely simplifies over the last iteration of their site. I'm sure they've based...
shopsanctuaryt.com
I like the simple color blocking going on here in the header, nav and some other areas of interest. The site is really clean all around in solid colors, content is well spaced and images are crisp and open. It means a lot that they have such quality photography and...
hicksdesign.co.uk/journal
We've featured Hicksdesign before here on UMS. Heck we've interviewed him too. One thing is for certain, he's a leader in our field, aside from being a good blogger to follow his website/blog is gorgeous and also makes great use of the media query to pull off the...
colly.com/journal
We've reviewed colly.com before here on UMS. So I won't re-hash how much I love the design. I think it's justified to talk about the blog or "journal" portion of the site The beautiful thing about this if you haven't caught it yet is that he's setting the site to...
stickwithmebaby.com
Very cool design take on the shopping cart. They've managed to make it fun and enjoyable as well as functional - it's what we all want to do, right? I'm loving the way I can drag and drop the mustache icon into the cart fly-out at the bottom. The login form also comes...
komrade.gr
Very clever website design, I really love the fun approach to this site. It's really fun and inventive and the visual metaphor of the plant then going into the roots is really smart. It really only works though because the illustrations are well done. Cool idea.
theidealists.com
I love the visual style of this website. The really blocky yet very articulate lines and type all work together harmoniously to really give a great viewing experience. The site is so very text heavy but I just don't feel it as I scroll down the page, it scans very...
designisdead.be
The fixed "everything but content" aspect to this layout is surprising and that's a good thing. You totally don't expect the page to behave like it does when you start scrolling - I love that. Some of the elements are a tad on the small side for me personally, I'm not...
adamstoddard.com
I like the typography choices in this design and also the colors and how they're used together to make certain things stick out - like the header/nav area. I also like how the home page layout isn't just centered or left aligned but almost staggered vertically down...
parveenverma.com
Love the textures and icons on this website. The little up and down arrows are pretty neat too, from an experience point of view. This site also looks like it's using Google's font api service, so that's a first for me too find a site in the wild for the UMS gallery...
telegramme.co.uk
Really nice looking and cool design. I love the "basic" approach to this site, the design really lets the work show itself off well while really looking good at the same time. Technically there's not a lot going on with the site, but you don't always need...
struc.to
Really digging the structo launch page. I love that illustration, it's got that nice wall-e-esque feel that's so nice. The background imagery and the general layout of the page are very well done. We don't feature too many launch pages here at UMS but we'll put them...
benbodien.info
Pretty cool single page design, that gives a little more than just sliding the page down to a target anchor position. I like the opening and closing of the content areas, it almost feels unexpected the first time you click around. The thing that sells it for me is the...
viximo.com
This design is cool how it uses the "V" placed in the center of the page and then have the rest of the elements aligned around it in such a symmetrical way like that. That's clever and really makes you focus on those links, which makes the little icons even more...
epicgames.com
Pretty nice gaming website, there's a reason why you don't see too many gaming based websites in the UMS gallery, they are generally too over the top. This one isn't all that over the top, and it's nicely done IMHO. It does a great job of mixing in the game artwork...
sxsw.beercamp.com
This one may be late to our gallery but it's certainly deserving. If not anything it deserves some kind of technical achievement award. FYI this site is all HTML5 and CSS3 stuff, really dig into the code, it's insane!
steinway.com
This site design is full of very delicate ornamental pieces but yet maintains a minimal quality that I just love. Keeping the individual piano pictures in the center of the page is also a smart design decision, since it makes your eye zone right in on them then scan...
hugsformonsters.com
The new(ish) redesign of Joe Lifrieri's blog. I've been following Joe's work for a while now and it's always great stuff. So make sure and follow him on twitter: @ hugsformonsters . The website promises some nice illustration work and of course you're not let down and...
