Web & Patterns: patterns for a better web.

I’m sure it was here…last time I checked: beautiful humorous 404 illustration from Bol.com.

Food blogs never fail to surprise us with both delightful recipes and visual treats, such this logo swapping the O with a pan.

A slightly embossed alphabetical menu lets you browse this website displaying tons of free fonts to download.

Inspired by the inclemency of today’s weather in Milan, here you are a nice iphone app and inspirational form at the same time: Umbrella Today? is the easiest weather site on the internet, answering to the eternal question: Do I need my umbrella today?

Pagination and main navigation links are both displayed on a beveled toolbar, duplicated at the bottom page: I think it’s really clever how Eico’s design have unified in one place back/next button, category, year, name of the project and link back to the portfolio’s home page.

An antique callout box with a jagged edge introduces each section of this exquisite, old fashioned web site.

Culinary Culture is an amusing web service dedicated to people who love to cook and share with online friends their recipes and cooking advices.
This website’s layout is polished and, generaly speaking, of a high-level quality, with beautiful illustrations adorning home page’s main assets: but what hit me first, was the way the red wine glass [...]

Comment listings are looking more and more like little forum appendix, hanging at the end of articles and posts: here you are a multinested, multifunctional comment listing from The Huffington Post, the revolutionary newspaper project from Arianna Huffington.

If you still didn’t get the message, your page is not found!
An aggressive, but funny visual treatment taken from The Brand Surgery, a young English branding agency.

Is Sucram logo’s grinning or grinding? Love the way the stereotype of the smiling clown is turned upside down by this very talented designer.

A commendable environmental project, Live : Earth, inspired Customize.org to create a visual customization kit for Mac and Windows: here you are Gaia and its flawless, delicate logo.

With a smooth, nice transition, thin layout guides drop into place while fancy typographic headlines fill columns blank spaces: Balsamstudio’s portfolio provides an outstanding layout, simple and elegant, while showcasing a lot of interesiting identity projects.

If you’ve ever happened to be on vacation in Italy, you’ve probably have seen people selling coconut chunks along the shores, strolling back and forth while screaming “Coccobello” which means beautiful coconut.
So, inspired by the incoming hot time, I’ve decided to draw a small icon set of exotic/summer fruit, proceeding with the inspiration of Fruttabuona: [...]

If you think that ecommerce web sites aim is to convert browsers into buyers, crafting simple, functional and friendly fact sheet pages is a key factor to your business success.
So, I really liked this layout from Orlebar Brown online shop, where a few options are neatly separated by big red bullets and a numbered list [...]

Does your background match your website’s mood?
I was thinking about this issue, when I run into Quoteskine, a tumblr project where Lee Crutchley, a brilliant graphic designer and illustrator, showcases hand-lettered thoughts and quotes written in the space of a moleskine page.
For sketches lovers only.