Although this isn't the first of its kind, a beer-reviewing site, I'm sure there is room for another well designed site like this. It has a pleasing mono-chromatic color palette with art that evokes beer labels without being too literal or garish. It's just the right...
drxlr.com
There are some really good things happening in this site design. First I love the minimal aspect to the home page, presenting the blog posts in a slideshow/side scrolling setup like this works great. Second, I love the bright colors and illustrative quality to the...
alexswanson.net
Really cool landing page for Alex Swanson's main site. I really like the idea of doing a landing page for yourself from time to time and marketing that page. It would be much quicker than re-working your entire site and you can experiment a bit with it. I like a lot...
evaneckard.com
I really dig the background pattern and the gradient/light shift. The colors give it a nice cool feel too. This guy makes some nice themes too, including that “Desktop Chaos” theme from the Smashing Magazine giveaway. I'm not too hip on the small script type font used...
beta.livingprinciples.org
Found via @AIGASC Just In! The beta site of the Living Principles is live. Check it out & join the conversation beta.livingprinciples.org This is a pretty cool looking layout at first. I like the orange sidebar(s) in contrast with the normal white background that...
zindustry.com
I like the imagery used in this design, even though there just might be a little too much of the fire visual, I really like it. It's well done and the texture that gives to the rest of the site is much needed. I also like the large images used for the work samples and...
atlantis.com
First things first, the portal page needs some attention. I understand keeping it quick but it doesn't carry over the small design consistencies that the two sites share. I think it's interesting that instead of trying to continue the large photo backgrounds on the...
jaxvineyards.com
Pretty cool website concept, the super oversized image of the wine bottle is nice looking and makes me really want a taste... What's here is the call to action is a little grayed out button with "browse" as the name on it. This loads a sort of tool-tip navigation when...
thedesigncubicle.com
It can be hard to articulate why a design is good, or why it just works. A great design like this just is. All of the things that make this site successful are so small, so subtle as to go almost unnoticed. To start with, the type is perfectly chosen and set. I think...
visitmanchester.com
An interesting review here, we find that Jay and I disagree a little on this site design. Here's our comments: Jay This site, while at first seeming a bit minimal and restrained, has a lot of gimmickry going on which really detracts from the content and usability....
thechurchoflondon.com
The Church of London has a lot of great work to show off. Truly inspired and interesting work. Their site is chock full of content, and the minimal black plus hints of pink really works well. The only quibble I have is the choice of the thin sans-serif for the titles....
twentyfeet.com
When trying to launch a new product, it's important to instill confidence in a potential customer. Some of the things that can help that are design, content and completeness. This site almost hits on those but doesn't quite come to deliver the full package. On the...
trevorhutchison.com
I love these colors, these dark browns and orange are really great together. Plus robots are cool and this guy draws some awesome Transformers. The design looks like an altered template from one of these guy's templates. But, that's fine by me, in this instance...
Basecamp Site Review
Review of the conversion design elements on basecamphq.com.
joyent.com
Joyent's site is minimal and fresh. The limited use of color and perfectly laid out type really make successful. I can't imagine the type being chosen and laid out any better. It's plain old Lucida Grande, but there's something about it that just fits this site. The...
wheretheyatnola.com
Really cool looking layout. I like the dark and yellow working together like this. The way the mouse over on the photos works is a nice touch too. The sub pages' content gets kind of lost with the dark background I think but it all goes together style wise.
kaleidoscopeapp.com
This site has a lot of character. It utilizes brilliant color and bold shapes to divide its content separate areas. In general, this works really well to create a distinct, visually appealing site. The single page structure works well when using the nav bar but seems...
bowtieperiod.com
Interesting design here. I love the animated little dude that strolls around, the hand drawn nature of the illustration is really nice. The navigation is really weird but it's working for them on their site. Overall this is a pretty fun website to look at, I don't...
futurising.org
There is some interesting interaction work here on this website. The "browser by sector" fly-out is interesting. As well is the search box design. The site uses the underline pretty heavily for elements that aren't normally underlined (only) on typical website...
justalab.com
Some nice progressive enhancement with the main slideshow. Overall interesting single page scrolling site.
dm11sto.com
Really cool design to have all the headshots lined up in a grid like they are. The mouse overs are a really nice touch too. I don't think this idea is incredibly unique, but it's pulled off here in a nice way and showing me a wall of people (the school's students) in...
tn34.de
Interesting background, I like how it starts out an illustration of organic looking elements and ends up just being a black background. The little red bird illustration holding the recent tweet(s) is cute.
imaginariacreative.com
I like the tone of this website, the colors and the copy kind of go together. Really nice thorough-enough portfolio section too. I'm loving the process page graphic, the idea of taking your project and distilling it to a fine frosty beverage is a win in my book.
gardnerdesign.com
This site design is kind of old-school ad agency looking but I kind of like it. I especially love the portfolio section, which makes up like 85% of the site's content. It's extensive and the layout works perfectly. I just feel like I get caught up in new web...
quoterobot.com
I'm loving that headline copy, it's really concise and sells the app quickly. Aside from the robot being cool, it sits on top of the call to action, which is a giant right facing arrow. It's bright orange and hard to miss. I like the placement of that call to action...
tdb.rs
There isn't a lot to say about this design. I think it's gallery worthy though, kind of like the design concept behind Google's famous "less design" only this site has some style. I love the colors and boxy solid line feel. It's a url shortening service so we already...
books.alistapart.com
Very simple website, but there's a lot of great stuff going on here. There's some really great visual hierarchy with the type layout in the left column, from large to small as the copy gets less important and more involved to read. The copy is also top-notch and...
mcmillerssweetsemporium.co.uk
This site is visually out-of-control, in such a good way it makes my eyes hurt. I love this design. Specifically I love the illustration work. It make me want to find out what a "sweets buffet" is in person. Good work on this site!
skysguideservice.com
I love this site, from the wood background/texture to the way the photos have all been touched up. It can't be easy to keep this site looking clean and tight like this either with the way the photos come in. I love the type and colors too. There's so much detail in...
wiehanne.com
I like the line work in the illustrative logo. The elements used across this site have style. Overall it works as a blog theme, seeing as how it looks like she designs themes it makes sense. I think this design is perfect for the subject matter and executed well.
