Archive for December, 2008

I Love Sushi!!

Sushi Design

Sushi is one of my favorite foods. Besides the fact that it tastes great it also looks awesome. The square plates made of all kinds of different materials, the plating of the sushi, the condiments. It’s all balanced out, the colors, the shapes.

When I found this website I just instantly liked it, (it just looks tasty) :). Simple and clean. Love it.

Source: http://www.kristinejanssen.com

Grapes, Earth, Canvas & Leather – Beautiful Design

Grapes, Earth, Canvas & Leather - Beautiful Design

I have noticed that when website designers use the natural elements in their designs, very often the outcome is very beautiful.

Look at this website, it is very appropriate for a winery. Photo of rich, black earth is used for the main page background. The body background is nice beige canvas that makes good contrast for the text. The sidebar is a strip of nice brown leather. I love the stitching that holds the leather to the canvas.

I left the header for last, it is my favorite part of this design. The beautiful grape vines are overlaid over the page, bringing the vineyard out from the photo and onto the web page. The logo looks like it is pressed into the leather. It is surrounded by the vines.

This website design is one of my favorite from the collection of sites I’ve posted this year.

Source: http://www.stemiltcreekwinery.com

Great Use Of Space And Colors

Studio JWAL

Cluttered websites are hard to look at and figure out what it’s about. This site’s layout has very good use of space, it is easy to look at. The header is nice and tall, letting you focus easily on the logo and the navigation links. The small heading text area is separated with the use of background color, also applying the spacious padding on the area. Simple content space, lets you easily read it. I also like the design of the sidebar, how the white background extends from the small white stripe below the hearer.

Source: http://www.studiojwal.com

10 Great Looking Christmas Logos

In celebration of Christmas here is a list of 10 nice Christmas logos that I found. As I was searching these out, I was really surprised at how many major online retailers did not “decorate” their website for the season. Lots of them do have winter or Christmassy items featured on the homepage but the website design and the logo is not decorated.

So here are some of the websites that did decorate their logo and that is why they get to reap the rewards – being listed on my Christmas logos list. :)

Barnes & Nobile Christmas Logo
Barnes & Noble

Diapers Christmas Logo
Diapers.com

BlueFly Christmas Logo
BlueFly

OnlineShoes Christmas Logo
OnlineShoes.com

Inventis Christmas Logo
Inventis

FoodNetwork Christmas Logo
Food Network

Zazzle Christmas Logo
Zazzle

CafePress Christmas Logo
CafePress

BustedTees Christmas Logo
Busted Tees

Google-07 Christmas Logo
Google – 2007

Google-09 Christmas Logo
Google – 2008

Holdsworth Has Done It Again

Holdsworth design

Holdsworth design has revealed their new website design and it is even better than the last. The last design was featured here several times for it’s colors, flash effects and the overall design.

With the redesign of their website they changed the mood of the site to a lighter more professional look.

Holdsworth Design

They have introduced an elegant, professional looking logo. Love the blues and golds. Looks really good.

Holdsworth Design

As you can see, they adapted the Flash navigation from the last design to this one and it looks and works great.

Source: http://www.holdsworthdesign.com