60 Elegant and Visually Appealing Designs

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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:

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

Solid and Serious Designs - Tomáš Ledba _ grafický design _ web design _ corporate identity

2. Intype

Solid and Serious Designs - Intype

3. BigFilebox

Solid and Serious Designs - BigFilebox

4. FreelanceSwitch

Solid and Serious Designs - Advice, Tips, Community, Resource and Jobs for Freelancers - FreelanceSwitch

5. FluidBook

Solid and Serious Designs - FLUIDBOOK - Catalogue interactif, brochure en ligne - Online catalogue, interactive brochure

6. Panic – Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X

Solid and Serious Designs - Panic - Coda - One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X

7. boo-box, as simple as that…

Solid and Serious Designs - boo-box, as simple as that...

8. Future of Web Apps

Solid and Serious Designs - Future of Web Apps

9. Freshview – Refreshingly Simple Software

Solid and Serious Designs - Freshview - Refreshingly Simple Software

10. Welcome to Revyver.

Solid and Serious Designs - Welcome to Revyver.

11. allpaymedia.com | Welcome

Solid and Serious Designs - allpaymedia.com | Welcome

12. Stuff and Nonsense

Solid and Serious Designs - Stuff and Nonsense | Creative web site design specialists based in North Wales, UK

13. StyleSpion

Solid and Serious Designs - StyleSpion - Einrichten, Lifestyle, Einrichtungstipps, Wohndesign, selber machen, Design und Musik

14. Online Portfolio of Vijay S Nair

Solid and Serious Designs - Online Portfolio of Vijay S Nair - Interactive Media Designer - Based in Bangalore, India

15. Svenigson™ – Yes, a Blog Kind of Thingy

Solid and Serious Designs - Svenigson™ - Yes, a Blog Kind of Thingy

16. Iconkits.com

Solid and Serious Designs - Iconkits.com | Premier Stock Icons At Affordable Prices

17. The Big Noob

Solid and Serious Designs - The Big Noob

18. Cómete Mallorca

Solid and Serious Designs - Cómete Mallorca - Recomendaciones. Restaurantes. Fiestas. » recomienda tu sitio favorito como si fuese a un amigo.

19. DNA 11 – From Life Comes Art.

Solid and Serious Designs - DNA 11 - From Life Comes Art. DNA art, DNA portraits, personalized art, fingerprint art

20. smashLAB

Solid and Serious Designs - smashLAB - Simply great websites

21. Playground Blues

Solid and Serious Designs - Playground Blues

22. Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic

Solid and Serious Designs - Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic

23. Idécollection – effektiva golv för din miljö

Solid and Serious Designs - Idécollection – effektiva golv för din miljö

24. Elliot Jay Stocks

Solid and Serious Designs - Elliot Jay Stocks

25. the Geniant blog

Solid and Serious Designs - the Geniant blog

26. North x East

Solid and Serious Designs - Web Business with North x East

Selected Designs

27. blog.critical | Andy Pearson

Solid and Serious Designs - blog.critical | Thoughts on The Web, Design, Gaming, Apple and Life by Andy Pearson

28. Chris Shiflett: PHP and Web Application Security

Solid and Serious Designs - Chris Shiflett: PHP and Web Application Security

29. inspired web – affordable web design, marketing and hosting on the gold coast australia

Solid and Serious Designs - inspired web - affordable web design, marketing and hosting on the gold coast australia

30. Nitram+Nunca

Solid and Serious Designs - Nitram+Nunca

31. unFortunate – Cookies Not Included.

Solid and Serious Designs - unFortunate - Cookies Not Included.

32. 3daysafter — Journal of Rian Triharyana

Solid and Serious Designs - 3daysafter — Journal of Rian Triharyana — Indonesian Web Developer

33. Krabi & Mask

Solid and Serious Designs - Krabi & Mask

34. OkapiStudio

Solid and Serious Designs - OkapiStudio

35. Reise-Community globalzoo.de

Solid and Serious Designs - Reise-Community, Reise-Blog, Reisepartner und mehr. globalzoo.de

36. OUTLINE to DESIGN

Solid and Serious Designs - OUTLINE to DESIGN service. What You Need Is What You Get. Web, Identity, Print Design Which Meets Expectations.

37. Immo Varro vastgoedmakelaar

Solid and Serious Designs - Immo Varro vastgoedmakelaar

38. Webdesign, Usability, Grafik und Design – Kai Müller

Solid and Serious Designs - Webdesign, Usability, Grafik und Design - Blog und Portfolio des Webdesigner Kai Müller, Köln

39. Jonathan – Snook.ca

Solid and Serious Designs - Jonathan - Snook.ca

40. Breeze

Solid and Serious Designs - Home | Breeze - Create and send amazing email campaigns

41. The TLC

Solid and Serious Designs - The TLC

42. Jogger.pl – bloguj przez Jabbera

Solid and Serious Designs - Jogger.pl - bloguj przez Jabbera

43. Global Moxie :: The Hypertext Laboratory of Josh Clark

Solid and Serious Designs - Global Moxie :: The Hypertext Laboratory of Josh Clark

44. Quo Consulting

Solid and Serious Designs - Quo Consulting — branding, advertising, web design and e-business solutions and applications

45. mezzoblue

Solid and Serious Designs - mezzoblue § Home

46. Mala krcma Skalinada | Volosko

Solid and Serious Designs - Mala krcma Skalinada | Volosko

47. Period Three

Solid and Serious Designs - Period Three - simple web design and development. // Home

48. Express4J – The Lightweight & Flexible UI Framework

Solid and Serious Designs - Express4J - The Lightweight & Flexible UI Framework

49. Tony2Nice – Once ate dog food to see how crunchy it was (hint: very)

Solid and Serious Designs - Tony2Nice - Once ate dog food to see how crunchy it was (hint: very)

50. Spouse Notes – Submitted by Apollo Loose

Solid and Serious Designs - Spouse Notes - Submitted by Apollo Loose

51. elixir graphics | professional rapidweaver themes

Solid and Serious Designs - elixir graphics | professional rapidweaver themes

52. ErgonoMind

Solid and Serious Designs - ErgonoMind®, Agence de développement de site et d'application Web. ergonomie internet ihm intranet mobile interface logiciel conseil etudes sites web utilisateur utilisation designer web design ergonome 19/05/2007 03:20:04

53. Nathan Carnes – Bellingham, WA Website Development and Graphic Design

Solid and Serious Designs - Nathan Carnes – Bellingham, WA Website Development and Graphic Design

54. nclud | Our Work

Solid and Serious Designs - nclud | Our Work

55. EUtelNet :: Web design and development ::

Solid and Serious Designs - EUtelNet :: Web design and development ::

56. Welcome to Buzz — Buzz Recruitment

Solid and Serious Designs - Welcome to Buzz — Buzz Recruitment

57. None-Design Media | Webdesign Recklinghausen

Solid and Serious Designs - None-Design Media | Webdesign Recklinghausen

58. Bistrian Iosip’s Blog

Solid and Serious Designs - Bistrian Iosip's Blog

Flash

59. WeSC – Let’s Get Physical

Solid and Serious Designs - WeSC - Let's Get Physical

60. Merten Snijders, Mhq Interactive 2007.

Solid and Serious Designs - Merten Snijders, Mhq Interactive 2007.

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  1. 101

    I really wish I could design pages like this. Awesome.

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  2. 102

    Extremely helpful,informative…. Persons like me who are freshers…. are delighted

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  3. 103

    Hi 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.

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  4. 104

    How are Kroenke and Fiszman killing the club? ,

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  5. 105

    Whatever 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. ,

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  6. 106

    That’s cool ! thanx

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  7. 107

    Poorly 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…

    +1
  8. 109

    I adore your work!

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    Roy from Barstow

    July 26th, 2010 3:35 pm

    I 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.

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  10. 111

    nice post!

    +1
  11. 112

    Very useful post for design inspiration!

    Take a look at http://www.freecssshowcase.com is showcasing most beautiful web designs under many different categories!

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  12. 113

    elegant? most of the posted websites aren’t. sorry to say so.

    +3
  13. 114

    Nice list you have here!Great collection.thanks for share such a nice post.Keep up the excellent work!

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  1. 1

    elegant? most of the posted websites aren’t. sorry to say so.

    +3
  2. 2

    Great list, thanks a lot !

    Dark colors seem to be the bg color to go with at the moment – personally i wish there were more lighter color shemes out there.

    +2
  3. 3

    Jonathan Solichin

    May 22nd, 2007 8:42 am

    Wow! Great list, thanks for sharing! Definitely inspired.

    +1
  4. 4

    Web Contempo

    May 22nd, 2007 7:57 am

    Great post. Always helps to have inspriation when embarking on a new design, and there are definitely some top notch designs on this list. I’ve made this blog a regular read!

    +1
  5. 5

    Poorly 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…

    +1
  6. 6

    nice post!

    +1

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