Showcase Sites

Dave Harper is a graphic designer from Indiana USA.His is an instructor of visual communication, and work as a freelance graphic design consultant, and his website, is truly eycatching. Striking use of coluor, with some nice typography. Nice.

Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Since 2001, ittâ€s been a peer-written journal promoting contributors who want to provoke thinking, push limits, and teach a few things along the way. Well worth checking out.

Foohack is the blog of Isaac Z. Schlueter, a Web Developer, Front-end Engineer, and Browser UI Builder at Yahoo! His blog has a very minimalist design, with nice, simple typography and killer content. His articles are always a good read, although I wish he'd post more often! Well worth checking out. One of my favorite sites.

Deltaschnauzer is a interesting blog/magazine, with some great examples of design across all disciplines, and well worth checking out. It has a funky look and feel, but close inspection shows real attention to detail. Nice.

I like good typography. I believe it helps reinforce a message. That's why I like Project83's site. Based in Nashville, Project83 offer web design and development services, training and consultancy services. Nice site, and their portfolio has some great content.

Nice CSS design on a WordPress based site. The purpose of Texture Lovers is to archive some of the best free textures from around the web and better yet only archive the ones that are free to use in commercial and personal work without worrying about giving credit to the source (no attribution).

Psuedo Art is the portfolio site for Stefan Lelovic. His work includes motion graphics, animation and more. Nice CSS site, very contemporary feel, and if you're into video, worth checking out.

Ninja Support provide server setup and support services, but thier website has a definate sense of humour. Nice design, particularly the way the content "hangs" by ropes and scrolls over the background. Neat idea, well executed.

Artypapers began as an experiment but became an escape and turned into a series of useful & fun applications. Nice site, with some insipirational stuff in the portfolio section. It's also worth taking time to check out previous versions of the site by clicking the links at the bottom of the page!

Richard Arran is an English landscape photographer who specialises in Panoramic photos. This is the first of a series of online exhibitions showcasing Richard's work from New Zealand. Nice site, with interesting horizontal layout, with some nice JavaScript powered elements.

Graphic designer Joe Nyaggah's website is easy on the eye, simple, but effective, using a simple pallete of oranges and greys. Nice.

Soh Tanaka is a web designer and developer based in California. His website features examples of his work and a blog that's well worth checking out, especially if you are interested in jQuery.

If you're looking for inspiration and to learn a few new techniques, I'd thoroughly recommend WebDesign.fm - This web design blog has a lot of interesting articles and links to some truly inspirational web sites. Well worth checking out.

Stepping away from the design-led, graphics heavy sites I usually feature in the showcase, this site is simple but effective. Peter Sunna is a New York based Design and Art Director, and his simple site showcases some of his work.

There's been a trend lately for sites using large background images, and this site is a well executed example. It also features some really good photography of the Bar and Restaurant, and the food they serve. Based on the site, I really want to visit and check out the menu! My one disappointment here was the Register page, which features a rather ugly third party provided form. Ick!