11 Nov 2009, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Design, Featured, 7 Comments
50 Inspirational and Fresh Minimally Designed Web Sites
From SpeckyBoy Design Magazine:
The most important factor for minimal to work well, as it should be with all design styles (but, not always the case), is the content. Without good writing or a strong portfolio, the style has no impact and the web design looks cheap. And that is the key to minimal, in the hands of a skilled web designer, they know that the site design has to accentuate the content, and the content, in return, accentuates the web design.
Creating an effective minimal web design, at first thought, would seem to be the cheaper, easier and quicker option to merely throw up a site That is most definitely not the case. Knowing what elements to strip out of a page while still maintaining usability, is just one of the the many skills you will need to successfully build a minimal web design.
The collection of sites below, are great examples of recent successfully designed minimal websites.
Minimal Personal Blog
Mark Boulton
Inkcover Blog
Alexander Limi
Trent Walton
Siimple
Ultra Minimal
Åh Studio
Julia Rothman
Hello Keepa
Remake
Minimal Personal Portfolio Light
super8 – Portfolio of Andrew Cross
Ignacio Ricci – Designer+Developer
Camtessa Design
Iconwerk
Klim Type Foundry
Lovers Town
Brilliancy
James Chambers
James Joyce
Tudinh Duong
Bunton
Minimal Personal Portfolio Dark
Espen Espelund
GraphicDZNR – Jesse Dodds
Arnaud Alves
Point&Anchor
Sveinn Davíðsson
Jeffrey Docherty
Jason MAYØ
Pierrick Calvez
Minimal Magazine Style
Life of My Story
ONE International
The Post Family
BB – Bisgrafic Blog
Corporate and Commercial Minimal Designs
Bespoke Kitchen Furniture
Bertelli – Biciclette Assemblate
Hair Ott
Miguel Buckenmeyer & Co.
Chaussettes Archiduchesse
HARTEN
Counter-Print.co.uk
Design Companies
Mark Boulton Design
Landor – Strategic Brand Consulting and Design
Paravel
Nordenswan & Siirilä
Zip Design
YCN
Onetwentysix
A Minimal Splash of Color
Fastlikerabbit
The Bigger Design, Inc.
Cubedroute
Second And Park
Minimalism and Flash
JØSHUA SERBÜS – Interactive Designer
Toy NY
Revolver Creative
Branch
Eleven Six
Yacht Associates
OurType Fine Type from Europe
Vincent Lamarche
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November 23, 2009 7:09 am
Jim Renaud @renaud
Lovely list and screenshots of some of my favorites and some i’ve never seen before. A couple more that I really love that could be a good appendix to this list:
Frank Chimero
http://www.frankchimero.com/
Naz Hamid’s Weightshift
http://www.weightshift.com/
Oh, and have you seen these amazing minimalist posters for TV shows. The Weeds one is funnier than the show! http://exergian.tumblr.com/
December 1, 2009 11:25 am
Deb Pang Davis @Cococello
Chris,
Nice selection. I have not seen several of these so thanks for this great list. It beats a lot of the massive lists I see out there who tend to just replicate other lists.
It’s nice to also connect with you on twitter. Thanks for the follow and introducing yourself to me.
December 9, 2009 9:56 am
Espen Espelund @depex
Fantastic list and blog! Looking forward to following it. And thanks for the feature.
Espen
December 16, 2009 7:21 am
Matteo Di Capua @matteodicapua
Great list of amazing site. I love it.
I’d just have added this one:
http://klippoglim.no/
January 6, 2010 1:32 am
Max R. Scheer @rutiso
Amazing list. Love that there are “dark” minimals included.
That’ll take a while to review tham all. Made my day!
January 6, 2010 1:33 am
Creative ideas @moinid
Lovely compilation. Thanks for inpiration
January 10, 2010 10:52 pm
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