waruntold.com

I love the background texture and other textures that build up this page. I particularly like the navigation design. By having the main 4 navigation items look more like marquee areas the experience is very focused and simplified. It’s a bold move design wise,...

privategrave.com

Submitted by Jonden Jackson, @ectomachine. Role: Designer & Developer. This was easily one of my favorite projects to work on in the past year. Private Grave is the online portfolio and blog of aspiring Tattoo artist Albert Grave. There is a lot of really...

trappedoor.com

The Trappe Door blog is a nice one. I like the fixed nav on the left and the textural feel to this site is so subtle, like a fine Belgian Ale (ugh…) I love the colors and that logo is quite awesome. It’s just a simple photo blog, done right.

spectrious.com

I like a lot of aspects to this design. The colors are dark and crisp feeling, as well as are the graphic elements. There are some content holes it looks like and the contact form is a little uninspiring. I include it here because I just like the overall vibe of the...

designlab.mailchimp.com

Just a fun looking blog design from Mailchimp. I love the pixel art they’ve used and the vibe is just flat out fun. You know instantly from the look of this thing that you’re going to get some great content from this. Super Great ASCII art in the CSS file...