March 12, 2010 | 5 likes | 0 comments
Basically, this site is outstanding because of the choice of technology. I would not have posted this site here on Styleboost had it been made with Flash. That is not to say it's a bad or boring design. It's not. I like it a lot. But it's also a design that is made in the spirit of a lot of traditional portfolio sites made with Flash, if you catch my drift. And I'm sure a lot of webdesigners will be interested in seeing how this has been implemented using CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Kudos to Appear.
March 12, 2010 | 3 likes | 0 comments
Portuguese web designer Ricardo Mestre calls Duplos his "web thingie". I call it a masterpiece. It really is. The site is basically one big animated poster. It's super beautiful, quite unusual (for a website) and surprisingly intuitive to grasp. The animated details work really well.
March 12, 2010 | 7 likes | 0 comments
The oven fresh promo site of the latest graduating class of Hyper Island's interactive art director students is high on concept. Despite the intro video that I find a little bit too far up in the clouds, I think it's a wonderful site. It looks great, feels great and is [probably] a great catalyst for making students focus on what's happening online. Cloudania seems like a great nation with wonderful and very talented citizens.
March 8, 2010 | 9 likes | 0 comments
Robbin and Waldemar are just about to complete the concept-driven Interactive Art Direction course at Hyper Island, and they're looking for an internship. As you can see from the work showcased in their cute, hand-drawn portfolio, they sure have the skills. Impressive, clean and still has a lot of personality.
March 5, 2010 | 2 likes | 4 comments
I stumbled upon this out of the ordinary portfolio on Kitsune Noir a couple of days ago. I'm usually not a sucker for big splash images and intricate ways of entering a portfolio, but this one is just too damn beautiful. All in all, it's a great portfolio with some wonderful work in it. Nick de Jardine definitely has done a wonderful job. But I think the navigation may be too difficult to figure out for non-webdesigners. Am I wrong?
March 2, 2010 | 6 likes | 0 comments
Gowalla have launched their brand new website, just in time for SXSW. It was designed by @maxvoltar, @keeg and @andrewdupont with a great illustration by @dlanham. This is an exceptional site in all respects. It even feels very tactile, which accentuates the mobile apps nicely.
March 1, 2010 | 1 like | 1 comments
Web designer Joshua Lane just recently put together his personal website in a brand new way. The focus is on his online presence elsewhere, but there is also blog posts and other content on the site itself. I think he's done a great and unusual job with this, and accentuated it with nice textures and wonderful typography. Via Zeldman.
February 25, 2010 | 6 likes | 1 comments
As part of a university project, Chris Armstrong has created this wonderful single page website for a fictional conference. The background effect (it works in webkit browsers, at least) alone is worth a listing here on Styleboost. It's a damn good page showcasing a conference I really wish was the real deal.
February 25, 2010 | 8 likes | 1 comments
Samuel Räikkönen is young and Finnish with an excellent mind for design projects of many sorts. His portfolio is filled with loveliness and is very tastefully put together. This design truly makes use of the format of a single page portfolio, as the projects are all so easily accessible while still having enough images to get a real look at the work he's done.
February 25, 2010 | 6 likes | 0 comments
North Kingdom are probably most famous for their incredible Flash campaign sites. At least that's how I got to know them. Their own portfolio site, however, is built with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript with wonderful results. It's a lightweight, easily navigated portfolio type site that's a pleasure to use. It's beautiful and highly usable without being flashy (no pun intended).