#2 Mozilla.com
Clear, open, fresh, simple. When you
arrive at this site,
you're under no doubt what the site does, or where to start looking for
what you want. The design is positive and happy. A winner.
#3 Iconbuffet.com
The
site sells icons, so it lets the icons rule, showing its
wares from the first page.
The colours and typography are solid
& strong, projecting a trustworthy brand while not getting in
the way of the proposition.
#4 Boldchat.com
Boldchat
provide a great live chat service for web sites, which is a very wide
market to address.
So the site design is clean, smart,
and shiny, using clean copy and smart imagery to communicate the core
messages in a compact space.
#5 Circografico.com.ar/
The guy's an
illustrator, so his site has to:
- Show his work
- Be interesting and characterful
It does both these things really well!
The graphic design is designed around
Alex's work, with intelligent typography and just enough pixels used to
give the site background its tattered, rich vibe.
I love the way his portfolio page uses
gradients to suggest the work in a print context.
#6 EnhancedLabs.com
Another icon maker, doing bigger,
richer icons, so the the site showcases them bigger & richer.
Bold, flattish colour creates a strong
first impression and still lets the product stand out.
#7 Protolize.org
Tony
Yoo's collection of recommended web resources is a great
example of strong graphic elements balancing to make a site that's bold
and easy to use.
Big text, simple nav, high usability,
all wrapped in strong colour and finished off with nice graphical
touches.
#8 Bearskinrug.co.uk
Another
illustrator's site (Kevin Cornell). What can I say about this
that I didn't say about Alex Dukal's site?
It embodies the essence of Kevin's
style, and - if you look - does an excellent job of filling the space
with content, needing almost
no page furniture at all.
Count how many things on the page are
both navigation and content. Everything has had the touch of the
illustrator's brush, so the site is just saturated with his talent.
#9 Corkd.com
Dan
Cederholm's personal wine review project provides a neat,
cleanly-designed interface, featuring an intelligent colour scheme and
fantastic simple logo.
Easy to use and fun to browse. This
site strikes the balance just right.
#10 Sumagency.com
Oh
so 2.0, but I just love it. You know what gets me every time?
Acres of balanced white space, easy-read text and cute content graphics
combining to tell a simple story. First-rate.
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