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Jan Garcia 12 May 06

This may be somewhat old, but is still one of my favorites and inspires me everytime I see it:

http://www.tnvacation.com/

Dan Boland 12 May 06

Veerle. Love the design.

Mario Parise 12 May 06

I second that Veerle link. She’s awesome.

matt 12 May 06

Inspiring in a back to basics sort of way. Make sure you check out the video.

http://www.swansea-res.org.uk

Ben 12 May 06

http://www.madeinmtl.com/

Anthony 12 May 06

I really enjoy http://www.themaninblue.com

Anthony 12 May 06

I really enjoy The Man in Blue.

Mike G 12 May 06

Couple of my favs of the moment…

http://www.uxmag.com/
http://veerle.duoh.com/index.php

Rob Cameron 12 May 06

The whole “feeling” of this site inspires me … music, faded images … everything feels like it’s somehow from the 70s.
http://www.iso50.com/iso50.html

Larry Myers 12 May 06

I’m always a big fan of web creme, which posts several amazing designs every day.

http://www.webcreme.com/

Pete Forde 12 May 06

http://www.releaseme.ca/search/

Just to plug something I worked on: I am very proud of how this client search turned out. Although, search is actually a misnomer here; it’s really a filter.

We provide visual feedback on how many results you can expect from your search as people drill down on exactly what they are looking for. We dispensed with keyword searching completely, and in doing so allowed for 100% relevant results with no practical reason for an empty result set.

For bonus points, we made each search have it’s own permanent, unique URL; you can bookmark it, or send it to a friend - and keep an eye on what you are after without having to constantly re-enter your custom search.

sj 12 May 06

http://www.thecity.org/

A joint collaboration between Jesse from 31Three and Sean Sperte. Really well done…

Jesse 12 May 06

Inspiring in a back to basics sort of way. Make sure you check out the video.

“>http://www.swansea-res.org.uk

You’ve got to be kidding. Looks like something a five year old did in frontpage

foodswami 12 May 06

t.z.f. no ajax, no flash, just a 5min/spare time project of our monthly adventures.

think of it as a blog updated once a month, monthlog?

nickd 12 May 06

Yes.

Jesse 12 May 06

Why must entire flash sites keep popping up in design :( If anything those are frustrating, not inspiring.

Chris Busse 12 May 06

My favorite website design:

http://www.airport-cgn.de/

There is a book called “Köln Bonn Airport Corporate Design” (ISBN 2-85893-734-6) that discusses their design. It talks about how they came up with an entire icon, type and identity system. Very inspiring!

David 12 May 06

The Raconteurs web site is made to appear like an old green screen interface. Caught my eye and made me nostalgic for the commodore 64.

Patrick Rhone 12 May 06

I hate to self promote (No really, I do) but the design of my site certainly fits into this theme:

http://patrickrhone.com/

Michael 12 May 06

One thing I am tiring of quickly in “Web 2.0” (I hate this term) design is the whole soft, pastel pallette that everyone seems to use (and abuse). It’s like hanging out in a maternity ward. As for me, I can’t wait until the web grows up some more and gets back to bold, powerful colors that I appreciate.

Dan Boland 12 May 06

Why must entire flash sites keep popping up in design :( If anything those are frustrating, not inspiring.

I agree. Most of them are beautiful and eye-popping for sure, but I always end up yelling at my screen for the animation to stop. That and the incessant need to resize my browser window. Thaaaaaanks.

The Raconteurs web site is made to appear like an old green screen interface. Caught my eye and made me nostalgic for the commodore 64.

Now this is Flash done right. Too bad the music is so-so.

--Josh 12 May 06

I thought that the holding page for http://www.eBible.com was pretty nice graphically.

Peter 12 May 06

I have many favorites, but if I had to pick one from the past reboot would have to be http://www.bopia.com very cool colors.

Mike 12 May 06

Bopia’s font is too small, it is also eerily similar to http://veerle.duoh.com/

Ahsan 12 May 06

Wow! The airport site rocks

Jason Trout 12 May 06

I would like to think that this is inspiring.

http://www.TheActionBlog.com

I just launched it on Tuesday, so if anybody has any feedback, I would love to hear it.

Jason

Peter 12 May 06

Mike, I have to desagree, I do not think www.bopia.com looks that much like veerle’s blog, maybe the dark colors but tons of reboot sites are using dark background. It’s in.

The font is a bit small, but you can always receize it to your liking.

Mark 12 May 06

Here’s one, although I’m not really sure “inspiring” is the right word…

ceejayoz 12 May 06

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/72344/ShowPost.aspx

:-p

Danny de Wit 12 May 06

How ‘bout this Ruby on Rails based new take on ecommerce?

Danny

Danny de Wit 12 May 06

How ‘bout this Ruby on Rails based new take on ecommerce?

www.intomac.nl

Danny

Danny de Wit 12 May 06

How ‘bout this Ruby on Rails based new take on ecommerce?

www.intomac.nl

Danny

Edmundo 12 May 06

Veerle’s website reminds me of Ordered List. That was the first website that led me into learning about web standards and stop using tables forever (next to ALA and CSS Zen Garden).

And what do you know, there is a picture on his Flickr photos of veerle!

b 12 May 06

Any lost fans here?

http://www.thehansofoundation.org/

It’s really a beautiful site.

[warning - heavy flash]

Rahul 12 May 06

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/index.html

Gamespot’s E3 website has a really funky “monster” cartoon theme that has great colour management, typography management and information flow (despite being full to the brim, but you can’t really expect anything else from such a type of website). It uses CSS effectively and minimal markup and feels really tight and clean, and also has hardly any overbearing advertisements.

Roman 12 May 06

Gotta love Firefox tabs, was able to flip through all those sites real quick.

I think Veerle’s and Ordered List are the best:
http://veerle.duoh.com/index.php
http://orderedlist.com/

Now to restart Firefox, acting like a dog.

Jamie 12 May 06

It’s funny how most of these are Blogs or Design portfolios! Any commercial examples of good Web Design out there?

I like how Boden has handled displaying item availablity on their product detail pages here. However, it is a little difficult to figure out how to Add to Cart. But when you figure it out, it makes pretty good sense!

sham 12 May 06

http://www.blurb.com

interesting product and webdesign. shame that their software wouldn’t download. i’ll try again tomorrow…. tomorrow… tomorrow.

Glen C. 12 May 06

Anything here.

Yong Bakos 12 May 06

Ya know, Siegel’s old site still pulls at my heart strings

And gosh, I miss the ol high five.

Ben Kittrell 12 May 06

http://doodlebit.com/slashdot2

Charles Kinbote 12 May 06

http://www.jimesch.org

Kego 12 May 06

LOL,

Ben - that is the best design I’ve seen for the Slashdot redesign contest yet!

http://doodlebit.com/slashdot2

Mark 12 May 06

Any commercial examples of good Web Design out there?

I think the GE website is really nice in it’s layout and intuitive to navigate, given the huge conglomerate they are.

Eric 12 May 06

I’m a fan of our new site… What do you all think?

http://www.3000k.com/

Jonis 12 May 06

http://www.zenfolio.com

Though it has great usability, I may not have paid for it if it weren’t so damn beautiful.

paul 12 May 06

eric i think it’s amusing when two companies use the same clipart: www.advantageconsultingservices.com/

Jane 12 May 06

Maybe it’s because I’m a copywriter, but I loved this site’s navigation: http://www.beanology.com/

Matt Carey 12 May 06

http://www.liftfest.org.uk

Mark 12 May 06

http://www.thebignoob.com/
Simply stunning!

Clark 12 May 06

Thank you for the links - I rarely get inspired by design on the web these days. Everything I see is a blog - even pretty sites like Veerle’s leave me wanting.

Blogging killed the webdesign star - http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/blogging_killed_the_webdesign_star.php

Paula Menez 12 May 06

Most links above are for design studios, I found this site while looking for better business bureau, they have a very nice and clean interface and a good system for creating complaints about companies http://www.beenfunkd.com

Cheshire Dave 12 May 06

Paul — they’re very similar, but not the same. Even if they were the same, 1) that’s the nature of stock images, and 2) at least Eric’s site did something interesting with the image.

Nice job, Eric.

I’m also pretty impressed with the Veerle site. Quite a lot of stuff, and yet it doesn’t feel overwhelming — feels more like the design invites you to stroll around the site.

condor 12 May 06

I’ve always been inspired by american apparel
http://www.americanapparel.net/

also the fact that they use yahoostores to sell their product online always sat right with me, they didn’t go out and try to cobble together their own ecommerce back end, they went with what worked.

Mark 12 May 06

Whether or not this is inspirational I guess depends on how you define that. But this site is non the less effective, powerful and gets the message across in a simple way.

www.povertyticker.com

Daren 12 May 06

No fancy graphics to clutter content here. Something clean.

http://5thirtyone.com

Mick 13 May 06

iQ Content are a usability company based in Ireland. I really like the design of their website.

Shekhar Mehta 13 May 06

See this website www.styledesign.in. Branding image of this website is amazing !!!!!

ya ya … it is my own website…

Shekhar Mehta 13 May 06

See this website www.styledesign.in. Branding image of this website is amazing !!!!!

ya ya … it is my own website…

Andrew Hollister 13 May 06

http://www.them5.com

Jonathan Holst 13 May 06

Pardon me for being a bit sarcastic, but having just seen it I have to say Techcrunch. Giggle.

Gayle 13 May 06

Oh, this is my favourite post ever ever.

Aaron Blohowiak 13 May 06

htttp://fixedgeargallery.com

PDHoss 13 May 06

iQ Content appears to especially like the usability of Adaptive Path’s website ;)

Rob Poitras 13 May 06

One page portfolio site + partial page of music.

http://www.drewflaherty.com/

The site design gets out of the way of the illustration work, which is really the showcase of the site.

Andres Walker 13 May 06

This site design is great, I love it!

http://www.emaginacion.com.ar/

The weblog isn’t bad either!

Erin Kurtz 13 May 06

Shameless self-promotion, but still a pretty cool experience.

Leopold Ketel and Partners

erik 13 May 06

i have allways loved this site’s layout

www.beelerspace.com

Gilbert Lee 13 May 06

It’s mostly black and white, but I find the New York Times an absolutely beautiful site. Reading it is almost a reverent experience.

--Josh 13 May 06

And emaginacion seems to like the graphical design around here.

The funny thing is that they try to take a jab at 37signals with the motto “Them: Less is more US: Balance is more” on a site with the entire color palette and style lifted directly from 37s.

foodswami 13 May 06

yo,
I usually check out fcukstar.com awards, some really nice finds.

http://www.fcukstar.com/post2005/index.html

~Jon 13 May 06

Pretty slick interface.

~Jon 13 May 06

Put the url in the wrong field, sorry…
www.ministryhome.org

Erik Kastner 14 May 06

Seeing all this stuff inspired me:
http://metaatem.net/designs/

Feedback?

Matt Henderson 14 May 06

http://www.playazball.com/

Andy Bell 14 May 06

Super simple, a bit different: adopt an olive tree

Jesper Versfeld 14 May 06

Swedish fashion, also check the archives:
Vive La Suéde

meaty 14 May 06

Veerle is completely overrated, its nothing good really at all design wise.

Its purely an eye candy site.

Nicola 14 May 06

http://www.lovemusichateracism.com is pretty good

Justin 14 May 06

E-Party Unlimited

Marko 15 May 06

The eBible design was clearly nicked from Railsconf

Marka 15 May 06

uhuhhhhhhhhhhhh

Charlie 15 May 06

www.nosbase.com really like the logo and the whole clean corporate theme. Copy doesn’t make any sense thou :)

Slipperypig 15 May 06

how about: http://www.fortmyers-sanibel.com

B-I-G-P-O-P-P-A 15 May 06

wow, what a bunch of self-promoting crap. Is this the best we got?

Lester 15 May 06

I love the shopping cart at http://panic.com/goods/

bob 15 May 06

…and I was wondering why the web was getting boring. Nothing on this list has been inspiring. Everything looks the same…except the flash sites, which look like every other flash site out there.

Where is the talent in this industry? Are all the designers chasing after the latest fad and forgetting to design something meaningful?

pr9000 16 May 06

Subtraction.

john 16 May 06

subtraction is really nice! I like the b&w

mike 17 May 06

i like www.digitalemon.com and www.snap.com

dg13 17 May 06

New Portfolio site with great backend development

dg13 17 May 06

New Portfolio site with great backend development

JD 18 May 06

PDHoss, perhaps adaptive path’s usability is a bit like iQ Content, no?

Back to the point, though, I like Cork’d - by Dan Cederholm of simplebits.com, great design.

andr3 18 May 06

I just couldn’t believe noone posted about Bryan’s latest redesign…

http://www.avalonstar.com

His previous design was also inspiring… as was the prior to that… and the prior to that as well. (…) The dude’s amazing!

Damon 18 May 06

I see veerle’s been submitted, count me in.

Al 19 May 06

Duck Travels

frodo 19 May 06

I agree with Bob. There is little here that is any different. Every one of these pages looks like they could be from the same designer. What the butt is going on?

lindsey 19 May 06

anyone know an awesome freelance web designer in SoCal?

application style? flash

john 21 May 06

this was on a site listing sites that have those sublibnal images sort of hidden in then, i had to press the refresh button to restart the animation at the top, looks like there is stuff in it but to me it seems a bit over the top

john 21 May 06

the address i found was http://www.qindex.co.uk

3riK 23 May 06

Netwizz Jungle Blog

Emi 30 May 06

I totally agree on the http://www.madeinmtl.com gig, it’s amazing…

Phil 04 Jun 06

There is nothing like Playaz Ball

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