We were going to order all the sites in this post from 1 to 100, but found it a bit hard with so many to choose from. So what we did was select our 20 favorite favorites and listed them from 1 to 20. So let’s say these are the cream of the crop!
1. StudentBox.org
StudentBox.org
A strong grungy design, innovative and unique….
2. Kyan Media
Kyan
The soft colours combined with strong typography and plenty of white space make Kyan Media’s portfolio site easy to look at and use. They have an awesome portfolio that offered us a lot of inspiration while designing the {radiiate} portfolio. Be sure to click on the little worm in their footer!
3. Max Voltar
Max Voltar
Max Voltar is has a very minimalistic design. We love the use of gray scale with limited use of colour to highlight links. Websites in serif typefaces with a great layout and ample white space are always beautiful!
4. You Love Us
You Love Us
This site makes use of beautiful background images and a nifty Javascript sliding technique to deliver a unique and interesting user experience.
5. Jason Santa Maria
Jason Santa Maria
Jason is a web design legend, so you would expect his personal website to be awesome, and it is! Different layout and stylesheet for every article he publishes, need I say more?!
6. AdaptD
AdaptD
We like the bold use of color and typography on this one. The layout is unique and well structured. The banners going across the header are awesome!
7. Twirk Ethic
Twirk Ethic
Twirk Ethic is a design, music and culture website. The design is very classical / elegant with loads of interesting details all over the design. We like the string, center-aligned header graphic and the symmetry it gives the site.
8. Astheria
astheria
Again strong typography and loads of white space makes Astheria a really great design. The strong contrast between the pink and grey really draws your attention to all the important stuff.
9. The Lippincott
The Lippincott
The Lippincott is a classic grunge design. We love the use of textures, torn edges and illustrations as it gives the site a very strong “handmade” feel that goes great with the purpose of the site.
10. The New York Moon
The New York Moon
The New York Moon is an online magazine. The “old-school” newspaper feel is very fitting and the interesting use of typography and layout really does make this site feel like an online magazine.
11. Alexandru Cohaniuc
Alexandru Cohaniuc
Web designers’ personal portfolios usually offers something special as they have more freedom to experiment than with client work. Alexandru Cohaniuc’s portfolio is no exception. The layout is something different and I really like the use of Javascript to display his work.
12. Space Collective
Space Collective
We like this site for it’s strong grid based layout. It’s very clean and easy to use. The Javascript slider at the top of the page is nice touch. I love the animation on their splash page!
13. Rockatee
Rockatee
I really love grunge design, and Rockatee is another great example. The textures and watercolor-like overlays gives the design a more “human” feel.
14. Viget Inspire
Viget Inspire
Viget Labs is a web design and development agency. This design is for their blog that features on front-end web design and development. The background landscape is awesome, and I think it’s really clever how the sidebar merges with the header. By doing so it blends into the background of the site, leaving the content column to grab the most attention.
15. Gary Nock
Gary Nock
Gary Nock is a musician, and this is his personal website. It’s another grunge classic, and with me being a sucker for paper textures, I couldn’t not include this site! I love the big header with plenty of pictures of Gary. You get a pretty good idea of what Gary and his music is about as soon as the site loads.
16. Wearable Print
Wearable Print
A very clean and elegant design. The subtle background texture is great and the design makes good use of Javascript for the slider boxes on the homepage.
17. Future of Web Apps
Future of Web Apps
This is the website for Carsonified’s very popular “Future of Web Apps” conference. This design has a brave color scheme, but pulls it off well. The extra large typography is great and the quirky illustrations add a friendly feel to the design.
18. Ainsworth Studio
Ainsworth Studio
A solid, classic layout and serif typefaces make this design beautiful. The big watercolor background texture adds interest to the design without being distracting.
19. Danny Blackman
Danny Blackman
Danny Blackman’s personal portfolio site combines Javascript sliding and awesome illustration for a interesting user experience. You have to check this one out for yourself to see what we’re talking about!
20. Colourpixel
Colourpixel
With web design it is often difficult to break the mold and come up with something unique, layout-wise. I think Colourpixel does a great job breaking the usual web design mold, whilst not being over-complicated and still being easy to use and read.
Honourable Mentions
Our top twenty featured our favorite favorites designs of the last year. We hope you enjoyed looking at them! But if you thought we were done, then think again! Below are 80 more absolutely fantastic designs that did not make our top 20, but we still felt they deserve a mention on here. Enjoy!
Wilson Miner
Edit Studios
PixelfuzeViget Extend
Web Design Ledger
Web Designer Depot
We Are Not Freelancers
Vogue
Tylor J Reimer
Two December
Training by Collective Idea
Top Gear
Tony Geer
Tim van Damme
TicToc
The Rissington Podcast
The Oleg Blog
The First Twenty
The Design Studio of Mike Precious
The Darling Tree
The Blizzards
Take the Walk
Studio 7
Patrick Keefe
SPD
Sofa
Silverback
shnme
Sensis
Saturized Studio
Sascha Eggenberger
Radu Ceuca
Pure Volume
Power to the Poster
Paiko
Ordered List
One Mode
Nuedo
Nue Media
Monty Lounge
Mix
Miles Dowsett
Medicon Media
Matt Dempsey
Matt Brett
Macalicious
LeetGeek
Langgatan
Karma
I Love Colors
Upstruct
Go Media Zine
Ginger Monkey
Giant Creative
Galan
Apilot
Function
Freshest
Lee Munroe
Fortyseven Media
Elliot Jay Stocks
Digital Mash
Design Jobs On The Wall
Andy Montoya
Design 82
Delicious Design Studio
Checkout
Campaign Monitor
Babylon Design
Brian Murchison
Coda.coza
Berit Sømme
Art of Dying
Art4Web
Ali Felski
AdWorks!
Ali Felski
AdWorks!
Abiblog
365 Days of Astronomy
80/20
2Pitch
365 Days of Astronomy
80/20
2Pitch
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