In this example, the white space (also know as negative space) all around the logotype erodes the basic form of the typefaces (e.g. the F’s stem or the T’s crossbar) creating a concise and extremely minimal design. Notice also the word “fabric”, stripped of the vowels, and enclosed by the O’s counter.
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Logos,
Typography
The New Minimum logo is so minimun that, in fact, it doesn’t even exists. It’s just a pixel hole carved on the menu (fixed on the page top). If you scroll the page, you can see the content passing under it. So zen, so minimal.
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Logos,
Menu & Navigation
Look at me! I’m a simple logo stripped of any vowel and nevertheless I’m still laughing!
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Logos
High contrast colors and big typography emphasize the ironically boastful nature of this website introduction.
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Copywriting,
Typography
The top big black horizontal scrollbar provides a useful navigation throughout Pentagram‘s website and portfolio.
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Menu & Navigation
13 wives is quite an obscure project based in Singapore, apparently involving women and drinking. Having said that, I wanted to share with you these beautiful background images masked by a geometrical W letter.
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Backgrounds
If your web monsters won’t make you sleep at night, you can just call this amazingly creative web agency.
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Backgrounds,
Copywriting,
Menu & Navigation
The vertical expansion of this beautiful portfolio and its geometrical construction match perfectly the architectural content displayed.
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Grids & Listings
A transparent navigation menu with sketched, hieroglyphics-like icons, floats over the stunning graphics of Bully studio’s portfolio.
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Menu & Navigation
Excellently executed paper bag icon.
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Icons,
Logos
This layout, made of different of pieces of paper haphazardly mixed, creates a strange yet fascinating effect.
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Ajax & Effects,
Grids & Listings
Lego 404 error page made me both happy and nostalgic.
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Error pages
An antiquish decoration is used here for creating a nice distinction in the website’s sidebar.
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Comments & Call-out
This gigantic contact form is vividly decorated by a bright, “childish” illustration.
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Backgrounds,
Forms
The layout grid become visibles thanks to the background pattern so you can see how every thing falls neatly in the right place.
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Backgrounds,
Grids & Listings
Amazeelabs light up the web scene with their nice, handmade, typographic light bulb.
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Backgrounds,
Typography
Nice monogram towers above Bydel Aker Brygge’s beautiful website.
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Logos
Though it’s often seen in prints, displaying a multilanguage text using two continguos columns is quite an unusual trick for the web. Classy.
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Grids & Listings
This illusory book background made me laugh.
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Backgrounds
When a web page crashes, Chrome gives you this nice warning.
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Error pages
Dropr is a multimedia collective portfolio AKA a hosting platform that aims to bring together artists of all media & backgrounds by crushing the walls between different art fields. The HTML droplets falling down in the website’s home page are quite a subtle and poetic effect.
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Ajax & Effects,
Backgrounds
The capital C in Lane Crawford’s logo stretches out vertically and completes itself leaning on the lower r stem, forming an almost full ellipse.
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Logos,
Typography
Take some bevel effect, add in a nice wood texture and apply it on a beautiful lettering. This is the recipe for a logo that will look like the one I stole from Finegoods Market.
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Logos
Some sweet and simple variations on an arrow symbol (or any other graphic symbol) can make a kick-ass home page.
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Icons
An easy and colourful start this week, with an edgy magenta error page taken from CodeGeister.
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Error pages
A perforated carboard texture and simple isometric icons convey a technical and cool feeling to this simple and clean introduction.
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Tables & Infographics
These cool hotdog illustrations, splashed over a mustard background, reminded me that lunch break is only in 3 hours.
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Backgrounds
This is a quite obvious example of a simple and useful user interaction: you point the mouse over an object’s pic in Svplly‘s catalog and an “add” button shows up. The implied behavioural pattern is very understandable: if you want something, just catch it.
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Buttons, Bullets & Badges,
Ecommerce
Nice error page from TrackID the song recognition software delivered by Sony Eriksson. (Thank you Miss Drinkthewater)
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Error pages
These day, you know, it’s all about “liking this” and “twitting that” so that other kinds of rating system may seem so passé. Though, I still enjoy a nice piece of design such this bliss-o-meter.
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Ratings