Awesome. Robocat out of Copenhagen, Denmark, has an incredible app called Be My Eyes that, "is an app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat. Download now and start helping blind people see." A truly inspired idea:...
Really like the vibe coming from the Spindletop Design site, an agency out of Houston, Texas. It looks like they like to use a lot of text treatments in their site, and in their client work - which is cool, considering the graphic design trend of Lettering (or how to...
We admit it - sometimes we don't just review sites for their aesthetic beauty - sometimes we review sites that are submitted because we can see there is love behind it. The LastWonATrophy site by Digital Zoo out of the UK looks like cool and fun side project for these...
We're seeing more and more animated gifs being used for more than just cats with lasers coming out of their eyes memes... we're seeing them used as the main feature of some sites. Alphabreast has done this in a clean way that really gets their point across in this...
Fun way to start the day with a site from Danger Brain out of Florida. Feel like I'm back in my BMX / skating days with the artwork and design. And I may have to start watching Video Game High School... just sayin'. From the designer: "Really good site with bold...
"Love like you've never been hurt, sing like nobody's listening and dance like you're Tommy Franklin" This site from G'day Byron Bay design company is pretty stellar. I'll let them explain the impetus for the site, but I love it's design, how it moves, and it's...
I really like what mediaBoom has done with Portraits of Guilford (Connecticut) - a historical / social photo sharing site for the town. I'm a history buff, so love to see the progression of the photos over time. Also like the sticky footer, and how when you change...
Something bright and shiny to wake you up this morning! This full-width site from XMI out of Colombia uses your standard en vogue colors, but makes them big and bold instead of just using them as highlights. It goes all out, and makes the site kind of exciting. Also...
Very interesting airline website. They use the large hero image slider pattern but then get into some really nifty layout stuff regarding the times and airlines stuff. I like the layout changes as you minimize the window down from desktop to phone screen widths too....
Nice web app site design. I like how it's a little old school but also new school at the same time. Lovely stuff. Our content management system is a powerhouse that combines ease of use with scalability. Submitted by: Alex Dixon @alexdixondesign Role: Designer &...
Some really hot illustration work closes the deal on the look of this website for me. The underlying layout isn't all too different in the design patterns the site utilizes but man, those illustrations. I also really like how the main one is responsive. It's subtle...
Cool blocky design for the Elephant site. I dig the adaptive looking approach to the layout across various screen widths. The zoom on hover for the main page's images keeps me engaged somehow as well.
Beautifully simple layout for DSTLD Jeans. I like the left or right approach to making the women to men selection. It keeps the overall same feel no matter what screen width you view the page at. It's also beautifully black and white which I always love when it's...
The new Shop Talk Show website is up. Retaining the same branding and colors but very much looks like it just goes straight for mobile users. Likely a very smart move. The content is in the audio and getting people to that fast not in showing off a super slick site...
I love this layout. It's simple and to the point as well as a nice example of responsive design. The scaling of the main images is nicely done and in contrast the larger bolder type in the layout works our really well.
It's 5 o'clock somewhere right? Who needs the Bartender's Pocket Guide anymore - you can head to Tuxedo No.2 for great responsive, Instagram photo, easy to navigate (the drinks are the navigation), drink recipe / instructional guide. As an SEO person - I like all the...
Good Monday Morning to you! I'm responding to Gitman Bros's Instagram message this morning. Offering cool vintage style shirts through their Shopify site, Gitman's site is clean and easy to navigate (not always the case for shopping sites). Really like their new...
Good way to end the week. The Chattanooga Renaissance Fund's site has great sweeping full-width shots and video backgrounds of Chattanooga that is fun just to look at from a design perspective. Especially like the footer image. Also like the vertical type on the sides...
When I was starting to look at Electric Pulp's new site, I realized this is the third time we've reviewed their website (2010, 2013 below). So it's cool to see evolution of websites, and especially from companies that we really like. This new version of the site is...
Looks like the folks at MetaLab (that made Slack) have added to their suite of apps with Peak. The app's site is clean and has some of the expected app product page features - screen shots and explanatory copy - but what I like is how it handles screen width with the...
Ok - it took me a minute to see what Hyper Market's website was doing here. Scroll all the way down, and you see the gray on the right is a shadow of the yellow that's scrolling up the screen - which is a cool effect. To accomplish that, it looks like they used an...
Make sure you expand / contract your browser width on this one - the menu and svgs grow and animate with the changes - meaning the Design Council has also thought about what designers do when we look at other websites: we experiment (the fact that the hamburger icon...
Cool adaptive site design for GO Food. I dig all the illustration work and how it's been worked into the layout to feel really hand made like it does.
There is really a lot going on here with the Van Gogh Museum website. From the different design decisions made across the different screen widths to the navigation details. You really need to go spend some time clicking through this one guys.
Nice Masonry/Isotope type responsive effect here. Actually, digging into the code looks like it is Isotope... I like the usage of it here because it just feels a little different. Especially with the way the logo overlays on top of the images like that too as you...
Some fairly straightforward design queues here on the Snask site. But I really really love the way the images are placed on the page. They just feel like they're embedded in the page somehow to me. Kinda like a nice offset printed page feels. Know what I mean? Maybe...
There are so many details that make up Brian Hoff's new site I don't know where to start. First off it's minimal at first glance which is what drew me in, then as you click around you start to discover there's some really rich content there about Brian's Design Studio...
Looks like a great resource, also looks like a nice site design for a product. I love the colors and fun little illustrations too. Good stuff here. Aaron Edit: Sorry... forgot the image... feel like Jonny from Airplane pulling the plug on the runway lights...
I like how Mad*Pow out of Portsmouth, NH has used their slider in a different fashion - less big image, more information. Also like how most of the coloring for the site comes from their examples of work - build a canvas, fill it up!
I keep telling myself not to write reviews of food sites before lunch... did it again. The Pasta Factory Carmarthen Gragnano (or Il Pastificio Carmiano di Gragnano)'s site out of Italy takes a grand tour of pasta - I didn't know there were so many types. The site has...
