The thought of going to Austin for ramen? Well, based on the design of the Michi Ramen site by Sputnik Creative.. yeah sure. Love the simple look and feel of this site, with cool textures that give some depth to this site. Remember, restaurant sites are usually...
"If you want to be heard through the din, try being clearer, not louder." We don't normally showcase too many blogs anymore - and never do that for a blog post - except this one. From Sparks Studio in London, Michael Gough has a cool blog post that could be a stand...
Like how Propeller Communications out of London uses the off-screen nav hamburger - but with a caveat - they start the site with with the hamburger open in vertical nav, that you can decide to close to gain screen real estate. From the Designer: Propeller is a full...
Cool and quick one-pager, full-width site from Hinge out of the UK. Like the slightly off-kilter script lettering, along with the regular copy - accented with the same angular thing going on with the color sections. From the Designer: We're a new digital agency, less...
Cool site from Grid & Flow out of Orlando - like the off-screen / vertical navigation on the left side - different than most. Also like this trend again of Instagram feeds that make up a section of the site - makes for a better look and feel with those filters....
Well - I like clean and simple - and not too many are going to be more clean and simple than Jens Windolf's portfolio site out of Hamburg. I love the text treatment here, and the fact that you can change over to a portfolio view that is image based too. And like how...
Clean and quick agency site out of Singapore from The Pixelage. Like the video background and the non-scrolling that basically gives you an A or B option to find out about the company, or look at their work. I think too often, we beg people to contact us, without...
Really dig this portfolio site from Justin Lerner out of Philadelphia. It's fairly unassuming at first, where everything is grey and looks like wireframes - but on hover and then on click, with cool transitions, open up into strong, flat design. It's a nice concept...
In the US today it is the official Opening Day of baseball, and tonight the championship game of men's college basketball - so appropriately we look at the 20th Anniversary redesign of a site that is now ubiquitous with sports in the US: ESPN.go.com With as many or...
We see so many local websites that are just, well, not good. Our buddy Joe Lemmons @joslemmons just finished this site for the Five Points Association in Columbia, SC - and friends aside, we were pretty wowed with the work. So we decided to go a little more in-depth...
Poppy, from Quirky out of New York, caught my eye because once upon a time I was COO of a start up that tried to do some of the same things in the pet industry before we had a lot of technology that is ingrained into our daily lives today... Besides some awesome...
I've read a lot of praise and criticism for this portfolio site by Allen Yu out of New York. This is one of those times where I'm going to let the work speak for itself, with the overtone of: art is open to interpretation. What's your interpretation? Tweet us:...
So John that works with us here at Unmatchedstyle sent me this yesterday - Storyland Studios near LA - made by Sputnik Studios in Austin. John's quote on it was: "the content is of course what excites me the most but the site is well made I think (How could you go...
To say Isaac Paavola has moxie is kind of an understatement based on his portfolio here. It's intro is unexpected, and then there is good fading of sections as you scroll down. The movement of the portfolio banner is a sweet idea, and like how it's used again as...
I admit, at first I was taken aback on the Website Store UK website out of the UK.. (wait, what did I write there?) - mainly because of the name and the image of the iPhone and iMac site mock ups in front of the full width and height images. Pressing on, found the...
High fashion is followed by slick design in this site for Ellen Tracy, done by The Charles NYC. I already like the work that The Charles does (like the Bloomberg Media site we reviewed a little while back) - so when they submitted this site, I was looking forward to...
Xavier Roggen's portfolio site out of Brussels is minimal, but there are some cool takeaways from it (we try to get those in each site we look at). I like the full width image slider background and the filtered images he uses. Sometimes style is a matter of content...
tl;dr - Details are the details - Built with Polymer ( I think ) - It's really fast - page to page transition - good color palette - it's really really fast - builds upon start up conference tropes - photo of a chemex on the homepage, really? - super sexy responsive...
Now this is a fun agency site from Mirumee Software out of Poland. Cool illustrations, some subtle parallax animation, and good coloring makes this one pager vibrant and inviting.
Portfolio site from Norris Hung out of San Francisco. Like the minimalist design. Also like when designers let you know what stack they use - this one built with Bourbon / Neat and Jekyll. Would like to see either links to the portfolio work itself, or allow for...
So... I've been sitting here for a couple of minutes, trying to figure out how random or not the paths of the meteors are that get pulled into the Stripe Connect orbit, and out.. and figured I should start typing before tomorrow comes... Then I used the "Inspect...
Good start to the week with Supremo's site, out of England. The home page is a different take on interactive navigation, which sets it apart from other agency sites. The Work (portfolio / case studies) area is strong and well thought out. Cheers! From the Designer:...
I became a Monet fan only a few years ago. Here's why: Ok, not a great verbal explanation - but that's the point. I really do get a sense of calm when I'm looking at Monet's prints / paintings that I don't get when looking at other art. And that's hard to quantify and...
Nice work for good causes. Love the design and the simple art work on the Upturn site out of Washington DC. Great SVG work and animation, but still a simple and clean site. I would suggest to change the underlined words to bold or something else so they don't look...
Cool, quick portfolio one pager from Mukesh Suthar out of India. Of course love the Rubik's Cube preloader - good movement through the rest of the site between the sliders and skill counters. Like the way he has the faceted search on the Work section too - it seems...
Simple, robust and impactful. Since 2011, this is how I've described The Great Discontent, both in its design and its quality long form articles. Every year or so they push out an [almost] invisible update to their site that seems to improve upon an experience that...
I like how Acara Partners, out of Connecticut, uses their home page image background to be a secondary navigation - cutting straight to what they do. The site is text heavy and icon rich - and that works more for a biz strat / marketing company (their two first areas...
I'm glad Lounge Lizard out of NY and LA submitted their website to us. There's a little bit of Don Draper in all of us (hopefully the good parts) - and that's projected in LL's website, along with good modern design. Like the block design in the subpages and the...
We're starting to see more and more one pagers - especially from start up agencies / freelancers. Pixenum out of Croatia is one of these sites, and it's a good one. Good web design is not only about the look and feel - it should also be about getting your user to do...
Cool animated SVG portfolio site from Pedro Landaverde out of Mexico. It looks like a simple one pager - but there are literally a lot of moving parts. Not crazy about how the Project photos clash a little with the rest of the site (maybe add a filter?) - but like how...
