Metalab's aesthetic evokes the crisp, metalic edges and rounded stylistic elements that I've come to associate with Apple. You can see it in the details of their gradients, shadows and lighting effects. The visual style is clean, but what I found most enjoyable was the combined use of vertical tabs and carousels on the home page—essentially their portfolio. The message is really simple and bold too. "We make interfaces, we strive for pixel perfection."
Winkreative's site is a minimalist site that feels like it makes a few design references to elements of Monocle site they designed for the magazine. I like the clean main content pages, the bento box lay out on some portfolio pages, and the intuitive navigation and portfolio filtering.
From out of Oregon's Dundee Hills rolls a new web presence for its founding winery, those consummate Pinot masters who combine the "Art of Pinot" with the winemaker's pharmacological science to trample out the vintage where The Grapes Of Erath are stored at http://www.erath.com.
Visualize a glass of Fuqua or Niederberger's best, or, if you're feeling prime time, maybe a glass of pink from their Melrose vineyard, and enjoy their new website :).
Simple product announcement page for Open Atrium, an open source intranet package powered by Drupal. The sidewards illustration seems to suggest, perhaps, a flourishing ecosystem turned on its head.
I like the hand drawn look of this band's Flash page, especially the audio controls in the corner.
(Link via @andrewkorf)
Fever is a feed reading server product. The product site features a single-page design, with well-organized and clear product information at the top, and navigation anchors that scroll the page down. All of the features you need from the service—purchasing info, account info, customer support—are included dynamically in the single page, so once you've purchased the product, for instance, your customer info is populated into the account area. Support forms are also in-page. Simple and clever.
Palm's Pre product page has a serious, polished look that I assume is targeted at a "grown up," no-nonsense audience, judging by the business user scenarios in the video and the big kitchen counter backdrop. The smooth, rounded corners of the page's UI elements echo the pebble shape of the phone and the circular shapes of the Pre OS. I like the use of depth of field with the full bleed photo, the hover of the boxes on the right, the change in state when clicking the site search box, and the categorized features at the bottom.
The clever, whimsy of falling balls that drop into the content boxes as the page loads, and bounce up and down as you scroll make the Multitouch Barcelona site an unexpected and enjoyable experience.
Samantha Warren's blog and portfolio is features some great layered graphics in the trompe l'oeil header and footer and some lovely type. I like the paper textures, the subtle shadows and little 3D effects, the nice treatment of the search box, and the general feeling of dynamism created by the asymmetry of the header/footer and layering, balanced by the strong alignment in the body. Nice stuff.
The Buddy Carr Skateboards site showcases the limited edition design by Antonio Carusone with a minimalist design consistent with the designers typographic treatment of the skateboard graphics.
Simple, minimalist look for a package design weblog.
I like the minimalist design. Seems like a a good candidate for creating the layout in CSS rather than tables, and using system text rather than graphics.
The site for the Park Ave Armory, a non-profit venue for the arts in New York City is a clean, modern looking site with a simple 2-3 column grid that makes minimal use of graphics and presents information simply. There's small change in the logo and heading colors to add some variety and the navigation is clear.
yay!everyday is community inspiration gallery focussed on sharing images that showcase artists, designers, and their work. Love the random sort option, and the staggered placement of the gallery of images which feels like an installation of paintings on a gallery wall.
Ad agencies are outdoing each other in terms of clever uses of social media. BooneOakley's new web site is actually a series of YouTube videos with links placed via annotations into the videos to connect all of what we might traditionally think of as sections. What they create is something like a network of hypertext connections to hold together a concept of site—hacked together boundaries that create space within another larger space. Using annotations to do that is pretty clever.
Some pretty harsh digs on large agencies, and a really funny jokes in there. Appropriate to the kind of witty work they do. I also like their use illustrations over the timeline to create another sense of navigation. The video production in their client reels are really enjoyable as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elo7WeIydh8&annotation_id=annotation_332152&feature=iv
inezborges, is a graphic and designer web working on Oporto. Specializing in Web and Print Design, she creates clean, engaging, and functional websites.
Nowadays, she spends most of her free time in researching web design technologies. She´s working in the internet industry, focusing on web design as well as user interface design, web 2.0.
The online brand re-invention of highly regarded Ste Michelle Wine Estates hits full stride with FINE Design Group's launch of the Chateau Ste Michelle site at http://www.ste-michelle.com/. Dramatic images of the Pacific Northwest's most renowned wineries combines with functionality like events calendars, retailer locators, reviews search, interactive maps, wine browsing, to bring the Chateau Ste Michelle family of brands to life.
This selection of screens showcases the different social networking and video sites that the Whitehouse has set up. It's interesting to see how much continuity and consistency they're able to achieve given the design constraints imposed by the sites. Perhaps they're given the unique layout options Networks get on YouTube channels. But they couldn't do much with the Facebook page. The MySpace implementation is particularly impressive as an example of site skinning. More info about these sites can be found in the White House 2.0 article.
Slick portfolio from Serial Cut has a single-page feel, using full page background images and quick transitions without Flash.
Bold photography in Lena Vazhenina's portfolio. Moving through the photos isn't the most intuitive thing though--you have to click and drag horizontally. But gorgeous presentation.
Randjelovic Milos's portfolio really can't be capture very well in screenshots, so you should check out the site to experience the perfect transitions between pages. Beautiful bold type and simple presentation.
Over 3 millions of professional royalty-free photos of about anything are available online through the PIXMAC microstock photobank (www.pixmac.com). Press, graphic designers or bloggers can order photographs they need.
The customers can browse the photos by keywords, or they can use the unique database of fresh, daily updated royalty-free celebrity photos.
Although Pixmac sell the photos cheaply, it pays the authors well thanks to the size of the global Internet market.
Pixmac offers a free professional keywording (choosing the keywords to describe the photo). So the photos are not hidden in the database.
Pixmac customers can buy particular photos on demand or they can buy a subscription a monthly, quarterly or a yearly subscription. The prices start at 6 cents per photo.
Nice minimalist design on Ed Watt's portfolio of creative and branding work. Uses a simple scrolling set of large photos and a sticky header and sidebar.
I like this simple, one-page portfolio. Uses accordions to switch between sections and tabs within accordion panels to navigate sub-sections. The hand-drawn arrows are a nice touch.
Simple single page product site for LittleSnapper iPhone, an app that lets you snap, tag, and share photos. I love the how the screenshots and videos slide into the iphone image on the page when you click the buttons on the right. Brilliant idea.
I dig this clean, simple Swiss view of Twitter. Reversing the red and white might be easier on the eyes if this were a regular destination, like HelvetiReader.
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Nicest weather site on the internet with current condition and weather forecasts for all world cities.
jQuery based animations and strong typography