Web & Patterns: patterns for a better web.

Very refined  both the desaturated palette and the grid of this New Zealand online shopping.

A website and a project dedicated to RSS and Atom icon!

I like Incspring philosophy: recycling logos and brand unsold (and unused) at a reasonable price for a start-up! 
The interface is well-designed and full of interesting details.

Saturized works are all prestigious and of high quality.
They find a worthy exhibition space in this showcase that has a dual navigation: one to move through the individual project (number on the top) and the other one to skip to another project (the arrows).

Although their use has been dramatically (and thankfully) reduced in recent years, tables are the most suitable tool for expressing numerical values. 
As in this case, using a bit  of fantasy, you can make even a price plan table attractive, nice and clear reading.

It’s an interesting idea linking the background illustration to the logo as in Readwhale home page: a social network dedicated to books (as the most famous Anobii and Shelfari), that reports automatically on Twitter updates in your library. 
To explore!

Twits at the end of page are a great way to customize an area often lacking in content. 
Nice arrows and  bullets.

I like blogs with a very rigid grid layout  and extreme use of typography. 
Even when the colors are so sharp.

An absolutely typographic approach, based on an abundant use of Caslon for this blog with a retro style and a title full of good intentions.

The footer on Douglas Bowman’s blog, currently Creative Director in Twitter and, among other things, the former leader of Google Visual Design. Apart from being graphically impeccable, this is an excellent example of the increasing trend in using the bottom of the page to express something personal…in short, footers are no longer a simple layout [...]

Delicious designers have created a strange hybrid of breadcrumbs and form:  user can see  sites associated with a tag, write the name in a text input queued to the breadcrumbs path. 
After sending data, the input text is transformed into a path link, in a process that virtually could keep go on going until the last [...]

This paging is graphically “important”, but well balanced.

I like very much vector illustrations, even when they are very geometrical such as this.

Although from a functional standpoint it doesn’t have any practical avantadge, the drop down menu/ button in which is embedded user’s avatar  is very effective in creating an enjoyable user experience.

Glossy buttons really bugged me: despite this, I love these ones.. 
I noticed that this social  choose a style s diametrically opposed to the minimal-functional-googlish look of its major competitor, Anobii. An accidental or a conscious differentiation?