A fresh, shiny example of footer design with vibrant, intensely hued baloons and bubbles to add emphasis to texts and titles.

The vertical expansion of this beautiful portfolio and its geometrical construction match perfectly the architectural content displayed.

How come all the big company can’t embrace a smart, direct, lively communication style like this?

Gradually revealing your website’s content is one of the most important trick to learn because helps your readers to easily focus on a few, relevant, informations and helps you keeping the design clean and uncluttered. One of the most common trend in grouping and progressive revealing content is making them slide using transitional effects (in [...]

Happycentro is a creative web agency based in Verona: I immediately loved their unsual, strange and perhaps aggressive color palette and the logo design, obtained by rotating several time a square module.

Granted that teehan+lax website portfolio is one of those sites that cannot fail to be in your favorites, we found this “launch site” button symbolizing an external link an agreeable change from the expected arrow icon.

Though we’re not big fans of overtly tech webdesign and we prefer warmer, more organic solutions, we loved the cleanliness and the powerful, warm glow that this website’s menu radiates. Another nice design snippet we found on Thoughbot’s website is the brownish, rounded contact us button which really stands out, partly for its effective color contrast and [...]

Yellow is a powerful, cheerful colour but rarely used in webdesign because, I suppose, of its inner lack of contrast. You can find it quite likely associated with black or, as in this case with cyan, and it’s often used in design-related websites. This time, we want to show you this nice, huge yellow tabbed [...]

Here you are a classy, finely shaped tab menu from Weightshift, a small studio based in San Francisco. Though we loved this web site on the whole (the typography is great and, generally, you can catch a meticulous attention behind every detail), we liked the most the quite vertically compressed menu (since the so-called web [...]

Here you are a spectacular background image, with a nocturnal imaginary from Pixlogic, a web design company: every major “fragment” of this impressive collage moves in the opposite direction of your mouse, with a quite enjoyable and memorable effect.

Two things at the same time: a nice, fresh web logo and an inspiring logo collection from Jordan Gray‘s portfolio. Here you are more infos about Jordan: My name is Jordan Michael Gray. I’m a graphic designer, independent filmmaker, former print-news editor, and I currently work as an art director for Bernstein-Rein Advertising. I also [...]

Brown typography and a wood texture give a natural, warm hint to the page while the nicely scribbled horizontal ligns complete the organic quality of this comment form .

An effective, minimal and charming way to introduce your studio, your work or the philosopy underlying your materspieces could be writing it in a short introduction (or simply summarizing it with a witty quote). Even if you’re a vector virtuoso or a photoshop goddess, a nicely written text may be the way to distinguish yourself [...]

This really simple website achieves a funny and quite unique result by turning the background image upside down. The webdesign is from Creative Nights a nanoscale web design studio specialized in high-quality web interface design and development. Good work!

Mutant Labs logo follows the ever growing vogue of animal inspired logos, though we think that this cyclop-squid really brings a breath of fresh air to a well-established logo design trend.

Artel is a Russian design bureau with a great logos and identities portfolio and a really nice navigation system. We loved the tab menu because of the rounded cut just above the logo and the way the single tab displays a punch card, once you click on it.

Waiter, there’s a fly in my error page! A nice and funny error page from 24-7media studio’s portfolio: unfortunately there is no link that brings you back to the website’s homepage.

Atomic Cartoons is a content developer and full service producer located in Vancouver, Canada. Each section of their one-page portfolio displays a matching cartoon illustration, emerging from the dark background with a dramatic, movie-like effect.

I was firstly drawn to Mikey Burton‘s portfolio, attracted by his beautiful illustrations and identity works. Then I’ve started admiring the unparalleled simplicity of his portfolio’s navigation menu: a simple list of gray links, with an open/close ajax effect, whose aim is just helping users to browse in the most efficient way. This website’s menu [...]

Since I’m big for vectorial shapes I couldn’t help mentioning oh joy’s floreal menu. Flowers and herbs silhouettes are quite realistic drawn without any excessive flourish, keeping the website’s greenery imaginary far from beeing redundant or excessively ornamental. For further inspirational suggestions, I recommend that you have a look at Oh Joy’s Shop and Blog: you [...]

Sometimes you can get tired of perfectly shaped types or you just want for your website’s typography that little organic hint which only a hand drawn font can give you. If you’re needy for inspiration you can look at Kyle Steed’s portfolio entirely based on his Steed, a nice vector font that Kyle decided to share [...]

TehCpeng is Shen Hang’s personal blog: Shen’s a Malaysian engineering student, a capable photograph and a devotee of the-C-peng which is this visually stunning tea drink. While we’re looking for where to find the-C-peng in Milan, we’d like to show you the cafeteria badge hanging on the top right corner and the red/yellow tabs, you can [...]

Letterpress styled text seems to be quite a popular typographic trend and I’ve been positively struck by the way it’s displayed on Tyler Thompson‘s blog because I think in this case it really helps users with reading negative text. Tyler, creative director at Squarespace, simply applies the css3 text-shadow property, that’s been available in Safari since the [...]

We’re definitely happy when our brave colleagues dare to use non-standard fonts on their websites. In fact, compared to graphic designers, our lives are gloomy and sad, having to deal with a so narrow typographic range and we all rejoice when, instead of feeling deprived and miserable, some of us has the guts to break [...]

Area17 web site, an interactive agency that takes its name after the cerebral cortex area, where images are processed, is entirely based on typographic variations.

Welcome to nothing is the perfect title for a 404 error page. Congratulations to the designer Ole Martin Kristiansen for being the first to use it.

Yummy Gum  is a small Dutch graphic design studio: its bubble-logo will change color every time a page is refereshed/loaded.

Helen Dardik, a cosmopolitan illustrator currently residing in Canada, creates beautiful and fanciful patterns.

Swedish studio Identity Works has several things of interest: one of them is the search form that, instead of appering in its usual place (usually upper left or center) is at the bottom page, just above browser status bar. A few years ago, this area of the screen would  generally been regarded as a point [...]

The bio recap of Hawaiian designer Michael Whalen is a simple listing in Arial, where hovering color changes from line to line: hovering over a link (text in dark gray) turns it into a button.