Build is a one man London based Graphic Design studio which prides itself on its craft-like approach to print. The Build portfolio is hands down one of the greatest websites I've encountered in my life. The amazing attention to details, the overwhelming simplicity, the lovely shades, the intuitive and unusual navigation, the large product photos. This is one outstanding site that every web designer should take a look at. And there's no Flash to be seen anywhere.
Online portfolio of Norwegian graphic designer Gjermund Rein Gustavsen and his studio Divensis Design. I know from experience that Gjermund is a very talented and determined designer who pays a lot of attention to the very smallest details. His brand new portfolio is a treat to behold, and my only issue with his site is the heavy load of the background image and logo is fixed. Go Gjermund!
Bobby Solomon designed this beautifully simple blog for his friend Frank. Frank is a cook and writes about food. A great read and an amazing background pattern combined with perfect colors makes this one a favorite of the week. Via Kitsune Noir.
Adelaide South Australia based IT support specialists in Mac and Windows small business server. Their website isn't designed as a fantastic new layout or a completely unique idea. Instead, it's a direct approach with tabs, icons, etc. Instead of reinventing the weel, the designers have focussed their skills on the details. This one is done with great love and it shows. Very straight forward and very well done. Via Web Creme.
Grooveshark is a music-sharing community in which users listen to music for free online, download music, and earn free songs for sharing. The site interface for this app is lovely. This is the kind of site I would love to be able to say that I had designed myself. The graphics are so sharp, and the information so well laid out. Make sure to take a look at Grooveshark lite.
Webdesigner superman Jason Santa Maria is back with a "rethinking" of his personal portfolio site. You probably all know his work by now, so I don't need to tell you that this site is great, just like everything else he turns his mind to. This is all about information, and presenting it perfectly.
Here's a one-of-a-kind single page portfolio. It's all laid out as one expanding horisontal list of works on display. The navigation works really well and the images are of a high enough quality to make us really drool over his designs. I'm missing permalinks to each project, though. And I would love to be able to right click the images and save them in my "graphical inspiration" folder.
Julian Velard is a singer songwriter who's made a very wise choice. I'm saying this because he's hired Wefail to make some madness and call it his website. They've made use of their trademark style of animation and made this site a fun way to listen to Julian's music. And I must say that I'm sold. Some of the songs are really good. And the site let me have a good time while listening to the music, too.
Laurent Baumann (aka AveTenebrae) is a french graphic designer, working in a press agency and doing some icon design during his free time. Although his portfolio site has been around for some time, I just recently rediscovered it as I was collecting the names and portfolios of great icon designer. I think this site definitely deserves some linkage as it is a great example of how to make a site that oozes of Mac. I mean that in a good way. Notice the narrow column, the delicious graphics, the drop shadow and the incredible icons.
Marcus Eriksson is back with another redesign of Subdisc. It came out a couple of months ago and managed to slip past my radar. This time it's all about crystal sharp photography in a smooth flash portfolio. This is crisp and excellent stuff once again from Marcus.
Checkout is the powerful, easy to use point of sale system for the Mac. Use Checkout to take orders, make sales, print invoices and accept payments. Not only does the product look interesting, but the site sure makes the product stand out as both easy to use and look very professional. This is how it should be done.
Discover the future of tennis through Lacoste's futuristic celebration of its 75th anniversary. This is flawlessly done and should saturate most of you Flash junkies out there. I really like the designs reminiscent of Chris Cunningham's work or the movie I, Robot. There are some great wallpapers to be had, too.
This site may be a little on the slim side for some of my regular readers. For me, however, this one appears to be a tiny near perfect delicacy. The yummy icons with their slick transitions make me focus on the simplicity. I like it a lot.
Despite being an extremely heavy load for a site of its kind, and being a webshop made in Flash, I'm loving certain aspects of this site. First of all, it's unusual navigation just works. I immediately understood how to find a garment and take a closer look at it. The close-ups work great, with the alpha transparency and all. Too bad it's such a heavy load and that it isn't done with jQuery. Flash feels much slower and less responsive. Despite my Flash-bashing, however, this is a great and outstanding webshop. Site by Syrup. Via Computerlove™.
Sticking with the minimalist agenda of the previous version, Sam's latest portfolio redesign is one of the cleanest and most understated I've seen. Very clean and very white, reminiscent of something out of THX 1138. It's elegant, very effective and brands the designer clearly.