The system’s error screen, known also as the Blue Screen of Death, is a touch of class in this simple 404 error page taken from Behance, the online community for creative professionals.

The scribbled-like baloon and its white background, constrasting the surrounding subtle gradients, draw user’s attention to this simple contact form.

Honestly, I think that Last.fm is one of the best web portal ever done, on the design side I mean. My appreciation comes partly from some little clever intuitions (e.g. the avatar-button), partly because of its graphic consistency, which never slips into visual bore.
Now I’m wondering if the new Facebook like button, which is spreading [...]

A current trend in web design is embedding huge search form in your website’s header: here you a re a clear example of this style taken from Precinkt, a showcase that features places to visit in specific areas all around the world.

On Justquoted you can find tons of interesting famous quotes that can make your conversation even smarter than they already are.
The full-option listing it’s designed not only to display gracefully these witty quotes but also to promote conversation about them.

Tasty logo and recipes from Madeinkitchen, a web portal and community for people who love food and good cooking.

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 [...]

Art in My Coffee is a Tumblr blog and community which catalogs funny latte pics from all around the world. We love the delicatly shaped mug and the general warm, caffeinated color scheme: besides we couldn’t expect less since it’s been designed by Meagan Fisher, the mastermind  behind  Owltastic.

A nice error page, clearly shaped as a navigation flow chart, from Konigi’s, a reference website for what concerns user experience and interface design.

Uannabe (that’s an italianish spelling for the English Wanna Be) it’s basically an italian job board/community that displays in every detail a real high quality design.
We really enjoyed the prince-frog logo (frogs lately became quite a trend in logo design, don’t you agree?): the execution is impeccable and the concept rocks.

Actually we’re big fans of Vimeo’s website design and we HAD to mention its beautiful footer background displaying a kind of Earth-scale-model dissection with isometric characters on it.

When Virb was launched, people acclaimed it as a sort of new Myspace. Actually, time has proved it’s much more: Virb is a very smart and elegant multi-media collective purpose-built for creative people who want to share online their arts, photography, music…
Since the main audience is likely to be composed by enthusiastic and, let’s say, [...]

When you’re in charge of designing a website, the first and foremost thing to do is understanding what kind of audience is expected, who are your readers and which level of web or digital awareness they have. According to the results of this first and fundamental enquiry, you can decide which style is the best.
When I first [...]

Evanto’s guys are super cool designer with a taste for clean and well-organized pages, with tight leading and big body texts.
When I first saw these extra sleek folded tabs hanging on the left, I instantly loved them: they’re not only a pleasant graphic element but they also really help you scanning through the page.
In fact, the layout is [...]

Had I time, I’d sure join Letter Playground, a typographic inspirational community where users are dared to find out new ways to draw glyphs.
According to web site stats, the letter people are currently playing the most with is A:  if you want to know why or simply keep up-to-date with this lively community  you can [...]