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Hot on the heels of last weeks web design inspiration post, 50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design, we have 50 fresh minimally designed web sites. Quite often the two web design styles work well together, as you may notice from both posts.
The most important factor for minimal to work well, as it should be with all design styles (but, not always the case), is the content. Without good writing or a strong portfolio, the style has no impact and the web design looks cheap. And that is the key to minimal, in the hands of a skilled web designer, they know that the site design has to accentuate the content, and the content, in return, accentuates the web design.
Creating an effective minimal web design, at first thought, would seem to be the cheaper, easier and quicker option to merely throw up a site That is most definitely not the case. Knowing what elements to strip out of a page while still maintaining usability, is just one of the the many skills you will need to successfully build a minimal web design.
The collection of sites below, are great examples of recent successfully designed minimal websites.

Minimal Personal Blog

Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton

Inkcover Blog

Inkcover Blog

Alexander Limi

Alexander Limi

Trent Walton

Trent Walton

Siimple

Siimple

Ultra Minimal

Åh Studio

Åh Studio

Julia Rothman

Julia Rothman

Hello Keepa

Hello Keepa

Remake

Remake

Minimal Personal Portfolio Light

super8 – Portfolio of Andrew Cross

super8 - Portfolio of Andrew Cross

Ignacio Ricci – Designer+Developer

Ignacio Ricci - Designer+Developer

Camtessa Design

Camtessa Design

Iconwerk

Iconwerk

Klim Type Foundry

Klim Type Foundry

Lovers Town

Lovers Town

Brilliancy

Brilliancy

James Chambers

James Chambers

James Joyce

James Joyce

Tudinh Duong

Tudinh Duong

Bunton

Bunton

Minimal Personal Portfolio Dark

Espen Espelund

Espen Espelund

GraphicDZNR – Jesse Dodds

GraphicDZNR - Jesse Dodds

Arnaud Alves

Arnaud Alves

Point&Anchor

Point and Anchor

Sveinn Davíðsson

Sveinn Davíðsson

Jeffrey Docherty

Jeffrey Docherty

Jason MAYØ

Jason MAYØ

Pierrick Calvez

Pierrick Calvez

Minimal Magazine Style

Life of My Story

Life of My Story

ONE International

ONE International

The Post Family

The Post Family

BB – Bisgrafic Blog

BB - Bisgrafic Blog

Corporate and Commercial Minimal Designs

Bespoke Kitchen Furniture

Bespoke Kitchen Furniture

Bertelli – Biciclette Assemblate

Bertelli - Biciclette Assemblate

Hair Ott

Hair Ott

Miguel Buckenmeyer & Co.

Miguel Buckenmeyer & Co.

Chaussettes Archiduchesse

Chaussettes Archiduchesse

HARTEN

HARTEN

Counter-Print.co.uk

Counter-Print.co.uk

Design Companies

Mark Boulton Design

Mark Boulton Design

Landor – Strategic Brand Consulting and Design

Landor - Strategic Brand Consulting and Design

Paravel

Paravel

Nordenswan & Siirilä

Nordenswan & Siirilä

Zip Design

Zip Design

YCN

YCN

Onetwentysix

Onetwentysix

A Minimal Splash of Color

Fastlikerabbit

Fastlikerabbit

The Bigger Design, Inc.

The Bigger Design, Inc.

Cubedroute

Cubedroute

Second And Park

Second And Park

Minimalism and Flash

JØSHUA SERBÜS – Interactive Designer

JØSHUA SERBÜS - Interactive Designer

Toy NY

Toy NY

Revolver Creative

Revolver Creative

Branch

Branch

Eleven Six

Eleven Six

Yacht Associates

Yacht Associates

OurType Fine Type from Europe

OurType Fine Type from Europe

Vincent Lamarche

Vincent Lamarche

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There are 31 Comments › Leave your comment
  1. 010fuss graffiti
    11 Nov, 2009

    Very nice list :)

    Reply

  2. Webecta
    11 Nov, 2009

    This is a great collection of simple design in use, thanks!

    Reply

  3. Abhijit
    11 Nov, 2009

    Amazing collection of sites

    Reply

  4. Mark
    11 Nov, 2009

    Great list, some very fine sites up there, and of course nice to have Cubedroute included too cheers!

    Reply

  5. Matt M.
    11 Nov, 2009

    This is a great list – I have not seen a lot of these on some of the other “best of minimalism” posts floating around out there. I designed my company’s website with a lot of the minimalistic aspects in mind due to vast amount of usability that it can allow for, as you mentioned above.

    Reply

  6. mike
    11 Nov, 2009

    Not to brag but I think my site should be included! ;)
    http://www.michaelnagy.at

    it’s both dark AND bright (check the moon, sun icons)

    Reply

  7. Jordan
    11 Nov, 2009

    Nice list. Some great examples here.

    Reply

  8. Werbeagentur
    11 Nov, 2009

    Our Website http://www.cccc.de has also a very minimalistic design in grey tones.

    Reply

  9. Alex Flueras
    11 Nov, 2009

    Very nice and inspiring list. Thanks for sharing. Here is another one: http://www.studioweber.com

    Reply

  10. Design Informer
    12 Nov, 2009

    Nice! I love minimalism.

    Reply

  11. designfollow
    12 Nov, 2009

    great collection

    thanks

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  12. Johan
    12 Nov, 2009

    Thanks for the very nice and inspiring list!

    Reply

  13. Benjamin Ds
    12 Nov, 2009

    Nice list, but where is http://www.b-ds.fr/ ??

    haha

    Reply

  14. phototownship
    12 Nov, 2009

    nice collection. would definitely be visiting for some more exciting collection.

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  15. phototownship
    12 Nov, 2009

    really liked the collection.

    Reply

  16. Tommy
    12 Nov, 2009

    Nice list! I love minimalistic designs.

    Reply

  17. Federica Sibella
    12 Nov, 2009

    Well done. Nice list. I think my site also could be included: http://www.musings.it Have a look, I’d appreciate comments on it! Thanks

    Reply

  18. Noel Wiggins
    12 Nov, 2009

    awesome inspirada now I am pumped to get to work!

    Thanks and Regards

    Noel for Nopun.com
    a graphic design studio

    Reply

  19. Alex
    12 Nov, 2009

    Very nice! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply

  20. Nauman
    12 Nov, 2009

    Awsome links!! nice share thanks

    Reply

  21. NinjaCrunch
    14 Nov, 2009

    Wow! Very nice. Now that’s minimally designed.

    Thanks!

    Reply

  22. Herby
    14 Nov, 2009

    What about this website? http://www.puppetbrain.com

    Reply

  23. Jacob Yap
    15 Nov, 2009

    Very nice collection.

    Reply

  24. Arthur
    15 Nov, 2009

    What do you think about this http://www.BalticBG.com ?

    Reply

  25. Bill Shander
    15 Nov, 2009

    Some beautifully minimal sites here – great stuff! We just launched our new site that I think belongs in this category as well – http://www.beehivemedia.com – and a blog post I wrote explaining WHY we tool this minimalistic/visually simple approach. I’m sure everyone who reads this page will agree with most of it, at least! http://beehivemedia.com/think-it-do-it/beehive-new-site

    Reply

  26. ian
    16 Nov, 2009

    Nice list, some good looking sites there.

    I too am a fan of the minimilistic style approach to web design when it fits of course. I designed my own site with that in mind also.

    Feel free to click on my name to view it.

    Reply

  27. Jose Alonso
    18 Nov, 2009

    Thanks for featuring one of our sites, we are honored.

    Reply

  28. wien
    22 Nov, 2009

    thanks for sharing this collection

    Reply

  29. youtube
    30 Dec, 2009

    You have a very informative blog that offer a lot of great ideas.

    Reply

  30. Vijendra Mishra
    5 Jan, 2010

    Nice List … your blog is too good…

    Reply

  31. Calgary web design
    6 Jan, 2010

    These are awesome thanks

    Reply