60 Elegant and Visually Appealing Designs
It’s quite easy to get stuck in creativity blocks, but it’s damn hard to get out of them. Particularly if you are out of time and don’t want to compromise your professional principles selecting the first “quick-n-dirty” solution you can think of. To get things done, you need inspiration and creative thinking. You need fresh ideas and elegant approaches. And you need to be able to find them as quick as it is possible. Handy references and examples are therefore both useful and enjoyable – after all, who can resist gorgeous, professional, elegant and visually appealing designs?
We’ve selected some of them. In an overview below you’ll find 60 fresh, elegant, professional and visually appealing designs, which pay close attention to details and manage to remain simple, user-friendly and nice-looking.
You might be interested in taking a look at design showcases we’ve published before:
- Keep It Simple, Stupid – Showcase Of Simple And Clean Designs
- 50 Beautiful CSS-Based Designs in 2006
- 45 Fresh, Clean and Impressive Designs
- 30 Dark Designs
- 11 Almost Perfect Business Layouts
Please feel free to comment upon the selected designs: nothing is more important to us than constructive criticism from your side.
Elegant Designs
1. Tomáš Ledba _ grafický design _ web design _ corporate identity
2. Intype
3. BigFilebox
5. FluidBook
6. Panic – Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X
7. boo-box, as simple as that…
9. Freshview – Refreshingly Simple Software
13. StyleSpion
14. Online Portfolio of Vijay S Nair
15. Svenigson™ – Yes, a Blog Kind of Thingy
16. Iconkits.com
17. The Big Noob
18. Cómete Mallorca
19. DNA 11 – From Life Comes Art.
20. smashLAB
21. Playground Blues
22. Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic
23. Idécollection – effektiva golv för din miljö
25. the Geniant blog
26. North x East
Selected Designs
27. blog.critical | Andy Pearson
28. Chris Shiflett: PHP and Web Application Security
29. inspired web – affordable web design, marketing and hosting on the gold coast australia
30. Nitram+Nunca
31. unFortunate – Cookies Not Included.
32. 3daysafter — Journal of Rian Triharyana
33. Krabi & Mask
34. OkapiStudio
35. Reise-Community globalzoo.de
37. Immo Varro vastgoedmakelaar
38. Webdesign, Usability, Grafik und Design – Kai Müller
40. Breeze
41. The TLC
42. Jogger.pl – bloguj przez Jabbera
43. Global Moxie :: The Hypertext Laboratory of Josh Clark
44. Quo Consulting
45. mezzoblue
46. Mala krcma Skalinada | Volosko
47. Period Three
48. Express4J – The Lightweight & Flexible UI Framework
49. Tony2Nice – Once ate dog food to see how crunchy it was (hint: very)
50. Spouse Notes – Submitted by Apollo Loose
51. elixir graphics | professional rapidweaver themes
52. ErgonoMind
53. Nathan Carnes – Bellingham, WA Website Development and Graphic Design
54. nclud | Our Work
55. EUtelNet :: Web design and development ::
56. Welcome to Buzz — Buzz Recruitment
57. None-Design Media | Webdesign Recklinghausen
Flash
60. Merten Snijders, Mhq Interactive 2007.
Dr Dorian
April 5th, 2009 12:41 amI really wish I could design pages like this. Awesome.
swapnil
April 8th, 2009 5:48 amExtremely helpful,informative…. Persons like me who are freshers…. are delighted
Jakub
October 12th, 2009 5:58 amHi there,
awesome designs even though first one (http://www.tomas-design.com/) doesn’t seem to work any more.
Great source for business design inspiration. Thanks a lot and keep up a good work. Regards.
Alex90
October 22nd, 2009 4:28 amHow are Kroenke and Fiszman killing the club? ,
Wolf53
October 23rd, 2009 3:16 amWhatever methods we use to teach skills and knowledge at the professional stage involve us in many assumptions about how we learn professional skills, knowledge and values, what we learn and why, and what we expect students and trainees to do with that learning. ,
Sinfonia
December 31st, 2009 2:54 pmThat’s cool ! thanx
Luke
June 29th, 2010 4:49 pmPoorly researched list, really. Not many sites here speak elegant to me, everything is very content heavy and kinda ugly. Everything is too designery and not enough real life commercial examples…
danya
February 4th, 2013 5:30 amvery wordpressy. not awesome.
Marianna
July 9th, 2010 2:01 amI adore your work!
Roy from Barstow
July 26th, 2010 3:35 pmI find many of these sites to be sterile and lacking depth.
Most resemble the same graphic style of gradient backdrops
and square headers. To conservative for my idea of elegant.
Francis
July 26th, 2010 9:58 pmnice post!
prakash
November 30th, 2010 9:34 amVery useful post for design inspiration!
Take a look at http://www.freecssshowcase.com is showcasing most beautiful web designs under many different categories!
Christine
September 6th, 2011 12:51 amelegant? most of the posted websites aren’t. sorry to say so.
WEB DESIGNS
February 1st, 2013 6:32 pmNice list you have here!Great collection.thanks for share such a nice post.Keep up the excellent work!