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 | 5 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).
February 24, 2010 | 3 likes | 2 comments
One of my all time favorite web designers finally steps out of the dark caverns of Facebook and into the daylight to draw some fresh air - and at the same time manage to redesign his personal site. All I can say, is wow. I am left speechless by the way he has turned his site around. The individual background images of the blog posts/articles combined with the stripped down interface make for one of the best blog designs I've ever seen. Rob also use's Typekit with great success.
February 20, 2010 | 4 likes | 0 comments
Frank Chimero is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Missouri. Frank also runs a blog called Questionable Characters with the esteemed Ben Barry. Frank's site is an example to follow. It's basically a combination of static pages (Home & Profile), Tumblr based pages (Blog & Ethos) and a Cargo based Work section. I love how he's mixed all these together and made it so beautiful and readable.
February 4, 2010 | 17 likes | 1 comments
In the same fashion as JasonSanta Maria, YaronSchoen and Dustin Curtis, Trent Walton individually designs every single blog post/article he writes. Beautiful and inspirational. Now all I need to do, is turn my simple tumblelog into something beautiful, personal and intelligent. Via @paravelinc.
February 1, 2010 | 11 likes | 0 comments
Easily one of the best sites I've seen in a long time. Personal portfolio/blog sites for designers come a dime a dozen, Yaron has created a remarkable combination of colors, illustrations, typography and whitespace. My favorite part about his site is how he has individually designed project page and blog post. Exquisite work.
January 26, 2010 | 17 likes | 1 comments
Despite being a Marmite lover, Simon is a skilled Creative Director at Erskine Design. His recently relaunched portfolio is a beauty that really shines through its use of great typography and wonderful illustrations. Via Factoryjoe's Flickr stream.
January 20, 2010 | 10 likes | 0 comments
Even though JB are my initials as well, I'm sad to not be able to claim some fame for the design of this Tumblelog. The typography and layout is great, but what really makes this one sparkle is how Jarred Bishop has made use of background images to accompany the photos. Well done, sir!
October 11, 2009 | 15 likes | 4 comments
Mark Jardine is a mac loving, character sketching, picture snapping designer living in Silicon Valley, California. His tumblog tells me he loves his iPhone. He did in fact design the beautiful Tapbots interface, which bears some resemblance to this yummy tumblog. All in all, Mark pays a lot of attention to details and has a great taste for layered interface graphics.
October 10, 2009 | 3 likes | 1 comments
A quite complex site disguised as an [almost] single page site with some beautiful graphics. The one sentence should describe why I love the Boco site.