Web & Patterns: patterns for a better web.

A strip made of all its work is the metaphor used by Rob Morris, a.k.a Digital Mash,to introduce his portfolio.

Icon Dock is an online shop for stock icons, some of which are downloadable for free. It’s designed and created by Nick La, author of many famous designers including Webdesignerwall.com.com andBestwebgallery.com.

This 404 error page is really exhilarating. It comes from Chris Jennings’ blog, Ui Designer for Scraplog.

Good header it’s a band with a set of links: by clicking on one of theme, you’ll make appear a new element that instead of exploding down, opens up pulling down the page.
The login mask, well structured, compact and discreet, follows the same behaviour.

Pampaneo’s footer  (on the top) closes the story of two young designers, who venture on a secret mission to discover “new world of images”: the metaphor of space exploration starts from the home page and develops consistently in the web site (eg. on the header of internal pages, on the bottom).

The footer in Fred Maya’s portfolio

Beautiful icons and manga-style-avatars in FaceYourManga : a wizard will take you through all the necessary steps to create  your digital alter ego.

A 1KB CSS framework for both fluid or grids.

I don’t  know exactly how to define Freckle: an application to manage time slash tasks slash projects? 
Loved the graphic of its price plan.

Fogde Morten Christensen’s blog beautiful infographics.

Psdthemes is basically a directory of web sites themes some of which are free and I think it’s a useful resource for both aspiring and professional web designers. 
The footer is organized into tabs and consists basically of a tag cloud.

Share a logo is a directory of logos and brands available for free download in vector format.

Spectra is a flash web site that aggregates MSNBC network news: among the many subtleties graphics, I wanted to point out the pager/slider navigation.

The footer in Waterstone’s online shop: the use of a book and a bookmark to characterize this component is more than appropriate.

Stunning icons designed by Eugen Bouzouki (some are free).