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idsgn.org

Gene Crawford — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:30:53 +0000

Aside from having some great content, this design blog is visually great. I love the simple nature of it, letting the posts really jump forward and having the design recede into the background, that’s how you’re supposed to do it. This design also has some really well done little details like the categorization buttons and the footer area layout.

Trost Design

Gene Crawford — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:00:17 +0000

Submitted by Ruben Araiza, @eldroid.
Very good looking single page portfolio style website. I love the typography and little illustrations across this website. It’s a very tightly designed and very simple layout.

Lucky Stars Tattoo

Gene Crawford — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:05:39 +0000

Lucky Stars Tattoo is a premier tattoo studio in San Jose, CA. Stylish, scalable and unique layout.

It’s not too often you get to review a Tattoo site, usually they are too crazy or don’t follow any sort of web standards at all (maybe i’m being to over-generalizing…?) This is a really great example of a simple layout and minimal content organization that winds up having a good effect on the user. It has all the trappings of being a Tattoo parlor visually (dark background, lots of skulls/dragons and rock & roll patterns) but I really like the way it’s been organized by the artist, then you can see their work. The normal sub pages are pretty neat too, with the transparent image laying over the main body content. Overall I really like the look & feel of this site, it’s all been executed really well.

Spoof University

Gene Crawford — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:45:57 +0000

Fun illustration is what really makes this site. We’ve used a few scripts as well to enhance the experience. All in all it’s a fun site.

This is just a nice tight little site that has some great illustration and layout. All the elements on this site are really sharp and complete, that’s hard to do on a consistent basis across an entire website and they seem to have pulled it off. I also really like the mouse follow effect down near the footer with the clouds and blimp/logo. Nice touch.

ccfannualreport.com

Gene Crawford — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:25:29 +0000

Submitted by Bobby Marko, @bobbymarko.

Built on Wordpress and leveraging jQuery for effects, this simple Online Annual Report was designed to make the information from the print document easy to access online.

This design is crazy! I love the look and feel of it, the colors are great and it’s a very clever idea. The re-sizing layout is a cool trick to make the site a bit more interactive. It takes what is a somewhat stale and boring set of content and energizes it with the jquery effects. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not revolutionary or anything, I just think it’s a very appropriate use of the resizing layout technique.

Paula Solanoy Design

Gene Crawford — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:49:06 +0000

Submitted by Paula Solanoy, @onedrgirl.

I really like the look of this website, the dark brown background is quite different. That big flower like shape is really beautiful the way it’s executed, I also love that it stays in place as you scale, that’s a nice effect. The typography is also very well done, the layout and type treatment really gives the site a nice rhythm as you scan down the page.

parliamentdesign.com

Gene Crawford — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:12:39 +0000

This is an absurdly simple website design. I love the stark white background and the strong red elements. There is a nice feel of finish and detail even though this website is rather simple. The portfolio is fairly deep with images and project overviews.

fredmaya.com

Gene Crawford — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:45:25 +0000

Really tight single page portfolio layout design. I really like the colors and rollover treatments. I like that the screen shots get some description next to them about what went into each, I never really love the lightbox effect, but this one has been customized to fit with the overall design, that’s always a nice detail. The “contact” scroll-out effect for the contact form isn’t the best part of this design, the “submit” button is just huge. Overall I like this single page site.

sowerofseeds.org

Gene Crawford — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:15:24 +0000

This is a really well done website, full of fine details and finish. The stark black and white images in the background really help evoke emotion, then next you’re hit with the strong red/pink and yellow colors. In accord with the fine details you notice it’s also very complete in that every interactive element gives you feedback - everything has a state change when you mouse over it. I’m not in love with the design of the main navigation rollover state, changing out the font for bold like that is jarring in a bad way. That’s really minor though given the overall level of finish this design has acheived.

tierra-innovation.com

Gene Crawford — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:14:23 +0000

Very simple website that has a complex feel to it. I really love that about this website. First glance it looks pretty simple and not very deep but as you click through it you find a very well fleshed out portfolio and good background info on the team. I love the colors and layout on this design too, it’s very different feeling from other sites but at the same time it feels normal.