This month weโre seeing websites that are very conscious of the design trends theyโre following. Web designers are making conscious choices to adopt styles, and opting out when it doesnโt suit the site. What we end up with is a crop of sophisticated, well-designed websites that use style as a technique to further their aims.
Here are the sites that caught our eye this month, enjoy!
Seen
Seen uses conversations to explore themes surrounding ethnicity and racism in creative fields. Displaying these conversations as online chats creates a sense of intimacy.
Baboon to the Moon
There is a lot of colour in Baboon to the Moonโs product shots, so the rest of the site is kept simple, with good clear navigation too.
Fleava
There is a strong sense of luxury in the digital marketing agency Fleavaโsย glossy brochure portfolio site.
Baunfire Portfolio Review 2024
This site for Baunfire Digital Agencyโs creative networking event is bold, personable, and fun.
Laesk Kombucha
There is more than a touch of Wes Andersonโs style to this site for Laesk Kombucha; somewhere just out of sight is Bill Murray in a red beanie.
Viso Haus
Viso Haus doesnโt do anything hugely groundbreaking here with their brutal-style portfolio site, but they do it very well.
Mario Carillo
Artist/programmer Mario Carillo has opted for a minimal approach, allowing the work to do the talking.
Symbol
There is a warmth to Symbolโs site, created by the colour tones and combinations used here.
Contekst
Interior architects Contekst favour a brutalist visual style for their site, but with some nice little animated extras.
Arcane Type Fair
No, you havenโt missed the font loverโs answer to Comic Con: the Arcane Type Fair is fictitious and a clever showcase for Rain Foundryโs Conacher typeface.
Capsulโin Pro
With lovely scrolling animation and soothing colours, this site for Capsulโin Pro manages to turn coffee pods into objects of desire.
Wanderful Chalet
Random illustrations and a quirky display type add character to Wanderful Chaletโs brochure site.
Stone Cycling
Bricks made from rubbish donโt sound like the most exciting thing ever, but this site evokes a lovely clean feel: like an old building gleaming in the sunlight after all the soot has been scraped off it.
Lazarus Forms
Lazarus Forms is an API for AI document processing. This site succeeds in being transparent in its explanation without being overly technical and pleasing visually.
Nathan Riley
An excellent example of masonry combined with variable scrolling speeds creates tension in digital artist Nathan Rileyโs portfolio.
Evi O. Studio
Sometimes the simplest things, like this full-screen image transition for Evi O. Studioโs portfolio, can be so well done itโs an absolute pleasure to scroll through.
Sundo
Sundo has created SMOTSpots โ smart sunscreen dispensers for public areas. The tone of the site is suitably utilitarian with a soft edge.
Blue
The Blue Experience from Rossinavi Luxury Boat Builders is a pleasing immersive microsite showcasing their new hybrid-electric boats.
Cased in Time
This site is an excellent example of how to make a single product commerce site that doesnโt feel lacking in content.
Educated Guess
Educated Guess is a podcast for creatives by creatives. The accompanying website is pleasing to use, easy to navigate and allows the user to focus on the content.