October 18, 2004 | View Comments (42) | Category: Our Thoughts
Summary: Looking for you favorite designed websites for research I am doing. Any help is appreciated.
I wrote about it 8 months ago and I am going to write about it again because I am doing a search. I am starting a new series of articles and I need help from the audience (as usual).
It's fairly basic, I need to know what your favorites sites are with regards to design. They don't have to be CSS sites and they can be all Flash sites, but I need sites that you go to just to look at the design. Let's assume that if it's in the Vault then I already know about it.
Trust me, this will pay benefits to all later :-) and as usual any help is greatly appreciated.
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The just redesigned Hicksdesign is really cool. Very modern, and a welcomed change, even that classic design got pretty boring. My only niggle is that the "listening" cd's don't (yet?) fill up the box with the shadow they're in, but i'm sure that will be fixed.
Casey
Nice to be able to go all out bling-bling (flash) with this one...
Kurt Noble
minkipark.com
kdlab
explornet
subdisc
Teknison
Johan (http://www.snowinteractive.com)
I am a big fan of 2 Advanced.
I hate flash in terms of a full fledged website, but damn, can they do their shit!
Bryan (http://www.juicedthoughts.com)
SuperFluous Banter.org
Shaun Inman
Asterisk*
HicksDesign. Co.UK
Binary Bonsai
Airbag
Scott (http://fairlyclever.com)
A few, off the top of my head. I'd use a list, but it takes up unecessary space.
Justwatchthesky
Biddle Bugs
Alazanto
The new SuperfluousBanter
Inman
Sidesh0w Whitewashed
Cameron Moll
I like the type on Vanderwoning.ca
Warpspire
There are more, of course, but these are just quick notes.
Benjamin (http://www.bluism.com)
Most of these sites are in the Vault. I am looking for non-Vault sites like Bryan and Johan provided. Thanks for the links none-the-less.
Scrivs (http://9rules.com/)
Off the top of my head, I remember liking Type Records a lot for its dynamic header image and the gradient background. What's also cool about the header is that it changes with the seasons and time of day.
There was also Design Radar, but unfortunately, it is being re-worked or something. The design I liked isnt' visible anymore.
There are many I forgot the URL (the name also). I'll try to post more later. ^_^
Zelnox
I'm not sure what Scrivs is looking for here, but I think it's be a nice change to not see everyone link the same "top 10" designer blogs every time a topic like this comes up. Yes, they're great. Really great. These guys are my peers and some are my buddies, so I'm not knocking them. It's just that basically anyone at this site probably already knows about Shea, Zeldman, Cederholm, Dominey, Hicks, etc, etc, etc.
Not that I have anything worthwhile to contribute. I'm just sayin'. :)
Jeff Croft (http://jeffcroft.com)
I have always liked the design of Dean Allen's textism.com and cardigan.com. It was during an accidental visit to these pages that I found his excellent CMS. Simple, clean and classy.
Adrian Rinehart-Balfe (http://www.boogenstein.com/)
Some of the best flash designs out there.
Web Agent007 - Flash
Swany Hunting - Flash
How Blue - Flash
Site06 - Flash
Saint and Soldiers - Flash
Evansfruitco - Flash
Ian (http://www.e-lusion.com)
The Best Flash Designs
Lana Landis
24-7 Media
Digital Brand
2 Turn Media
SkyWorks Solutions
Quoob
FrontEnd Multimedia
Future Farm
Koether
Design is Kinky
Mixed feelings about this one, Bruko World
Meta Design
That's all the ones I have bookmarked at work, home there's probably tons more.
Brady J. Frey (http://www.dotfive.com)
Hey!
In southamerica we love design and make our work in AyerViernes S.A. (http://www.ayerviernes.com)
Rgs,
Jorge Barahona (http://www.jorgebarahona.cl)
Afterlife Seasons - A truly beautiful orchestra of photography, animation, and taste. I can only wish the environment
Randy J. Hunt (http://www.randyjhunt.com)
As for non-vault admits:
Street Scene
Lana Landis
Neostream
Tooth & Nail Records (very similar to Epitaph)
Plaxo
I think that's all of 'em in my 'cool sites' folder, although I've got another 50 or so all flash examples in my inbox at work.
Kyle (http://www.warpspire.com/)
Before I had ever heard of a computer I was all about art and drawing so most of these links I go to more because of the art- but I still really like the web designs.
Tokidoki.it
Art of Greg Martin
Jason Brooks
Design Chapel (You might remember this artist if you ever check out computer arts magazine)
Joylee.net
Gabriel Suchowolski
Run With Scissors
Jory Dayne
Jenni (http://www.mrsjenni.com/)
Once again your timing is spot on, Scrivs. (What's your time and date of birth? Our planets must be well aspected!) Just today I got a comment on my site from
Erick and his linkage site is full of inspirational websites. Linkage is also a great site itself. The two sites featured currently are
Omanaman and Cuban Council, both of which are excellent! I haven't explored the rest of the site yet and perhaps you should understand why.
<rant>
I use a modem and many sites are so slow in loading that I just move on, even if they look like they may be good. I might sound impatient but it is because I get free internet access for < 10 minute sessions. I don't think the time will ever come when everyone will be on broadband, so for me and millions of others, we are never going to appreciate many flash or graphics intensive sites that perhaps more privileged people will. I hope designers will try to reduce bandwidth but I feel that many do not give two hoots about it. So I return the two fingers to those sites on many occasions.
I hope many of the links here are to sites which are beautifully designed AND fast as well! </rant>
Peter (http://www.01010.org/)
A really nice site. I like the idea behind it all. Make sure you check out each page though, that are all different.
Daniel Oliver (http://www.solutionweb.co.uk)
...totally liquid, understated, clear, to-the-point, well-designed and (equally important, perhaps more so) well-written = elegance and beauty
David
Inlusion Studios
Dunun
Jeedub
Motion4Graphics
99 Rooms
Hope that helps!
Martin (http://www.d2.co.za)
Bartelme Designs
Mario Belem
Lime Creative
Fcukstar - works well for what it does.
Newark 1 - although mainly for their portfolio work
Kelamali - because it's different and has great music.
dunun - because it's cool enough to deserve duplication
Sunshine (http://sparklit.sparkalyn.com)
This is good stuff so far. Exactly what I was looking for. Keep it up and thanks.
Scrivs (http://9rules.com/)
Why don't you just take a few hours off and browse some of the existing design portals instead:
design is kinky
computerlove
K10k
styleboost
FWA
(and a lot more...)
You are asking for well designed web sites, and there are literally millions of them... Whatever reason you might have, people have been gathering theese links for 5+ years so it's not exactly a wildly innovative idea. But hey, good luck anyways.
A personal favourite right now: site06
david (http://www.monc.se)
Keystone Ski Resort (Cody Lindley pointed me to that one earlier today)
In fact, go check out his post on ski resort sites. Most are pretty sweet. Especially Jackson Hole. I would just copy the URLs over here, but that would kinda be hijacking the time and effort he put into the post and I'd feel weird about it. =)
Anyway, some others:
Lousco Labradors
Sheryl Crow (don't ask)
Studio Elementik
If some of those are in the Vault already, sorry about that. I'm too lazy to actually check. ;)
Nathan Logan (http://www.nathanlogan.com)
Red 5 Interactive ( nice crisp 3d supplemental graphics )
Elro Co. ( Interesting sectional color palettes as you navigate through the nav )
ICDSOFT ( My old web host, I always enjoyed their web design )
Ben Lumpkin
Sorry forgot one of my favs:
Styleboost ( Not so much it's design, but the content that leads you to phenomenally designed sites )
Ben Lumpkin
WhyYouFly.com - I didnt go the Art Direction, but did all of the development on it :)
Josh Dura (http://www.joshdura.com)
ISO50.com is one of my favourite sites out there at the moment. By the same bloke is his band's website TychoMusic.com.
Max (http://makenosound.com/)
I love the following site, more for it's entertainment value than it's design, but hey!
Ryan Brill (http://www.ryanbrill.com/)
Oops, I'm sorry. I didn't read the first comment where you asked me to link instead of copy-paste. My bad.
Lea
WhyYouFly.com - I didnt go the Art Direction, but did all of the development on it :)
Ahhh!!! Just had to point out that I absolutely hate sites that break the back button (especially on the home page)
Kyle (http://www.warpspire.com/)
I dislike anything which 'spawns' windows. When using MS GUI, there's no easy way to keep windows on top of others (massive design flaw), so they are buried when they lose focus.
A high percentage of flash sites use utterly pointless, time wasting animations which I fail to believe impresses anyone any more e.g. lines spinning about. Boxes, lines, fades, etc. require no talent. There are few sites out there which incorporate discernable talent e.g. hand drawn animation, clever, witty use of graphics.
When I'm looking for content on a site (information) I groan loudly when it's flash. I know it'll be slow, some (if not all) text will be un-selectable, printing won't work properly, back button might not work, my processor will take a battering etc. etc.
Also, a site is 'bad' if it doesn't have a search box on every page.
http://www.apple.com/ - content heavey, but still slim.
There, I've said me piece - off to have some tea.
Geokker (http://www.fruitscone.com/)
http://www.rr.com/flash/
http://www.tychomusic.com/sp.html
http://www.evb.com/
http://www.jonathanyuen.com/
http://crew9.net/flash.html
I could go on forever, but here's a few choice picks.
_Mike G
Mike G (http://www.mikegowen.com/)
Here is a cool site I found yesterday. It has a very unique appearance that goes against the website trend at the moment.
http://www.clutch13.com
Johnny (http://(none))
I can't believe no one has brought up this one:
http://www.billybussey.com/
I dont think it is finished yet but it has some gorgeous flash animations
Rob
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Oh and please use XHTML link syntax so we don't have to cut and paste.
<a href="x.com">xxxxx</a>
Scrivs (http://9rules.com/)