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.
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Minimal Personal Blog
Mark Boulton
Inkcover Blog
Alexander Limi
Trent Walton
Siimple
Ultra Minimal
Åh Studio
Julia Rothman
Hello Keepa
Remake
Minimal Personal Portfolio Light
super8 – Portfolio of Andrew Cross
Ignacio Ricci – Designer+Developer
Camtessa Design
Iconwerk
Klim Type Foundry
Lovers Town
Brilliancy
James Chambers
James Joyce
Tudinh Duong
Bunton
Minimal Personal Portfolio Dark
Espen Espelund
GraphicDZNR – Jesse Dodds
Arnaud Alves
Point&Anchor
Sveinn Davíðsson
Jeffrey Docherty
Jason MAYØ
Pierrick Calvez
Minimal Magazine Style
Life of My Story
ONE International
The Post Family
BB – Bisgrafic Blog
Corporate and Commercial Minimal Designs
Bespoke Kitchen Furniture
Bertelli – Biciclette Assemblate
Hair Ott
Miguel Buckenmeyer & Co.
Chaussettes Archiduchesse
HARTEN
Counter-Print.co.uk
Design Companies
Mark Boulton Design
Landor – Strategic Brand Consulting and Design
Paravel
Nordenswan & Siirilä
Zip Design
YCN
Onetwentysix
A Minimal Splash of Color
Fastlikerabbit
The Bigger Design, Inc.
Cubedroute
Second And Park
Minimalism and Flash
JØSHUA SERBÜS – Interactive Designer
Toy NY
Revolver Creative
Branch
Eleven Six
Yacht Associates
OurType Fine Type from Europe
Vincent Lamarche
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11 Nov, 2009
Very nice list :)
11 Nov, 2009
This is a great collection of simple design in use, thanks!
11 Nov, 2009
Amazing collection of sites
11 Nov, 2009
Great list, some very fine sites up there, and of course nice to have Cubedroute included too cheers!
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.
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)
11 Nov, 2009
Nice list. Some great examples here.
11 Nov, 2009
Our Website http://www.cccc.de has also a very minimalistic design in grey tones.
11 Nov, 2009
Very nice and inspiring list. Thanks for sharing. Here is another one: http://www.studioweber.com
12 Nov, 2009
Nice! I love minimalism.
12 Nov, 2009
great collection
thanks
12 Nov, 2009
Thanks for the very nice and inspiring list!
12 Nov, 2009
Nice list, but where is http://www.b-ds.fr/ ??
haha
12 Nov, 2009
nice collection. would definitely be visiting for some more exciting collection.
12 Nov, 2009
really liked the collection.
12 Nov, 2009
Nice list! I love minimalistic designs.
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
12 Nov, 2009
awesome inspirada now I am pumped to get to work!
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Thanks and Regards
Noel for Nopun.com
a graphic design studio
12 Nov, 2009
Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
12 Nov, 2009
Awsome links!! nice share thanks
14 Nov, 2009
Wow! Very nice. Now that’s minimally designed.
Thanks!
14 Nov, 2009
What about this website? http://www.puppetbrain.com
15 Nov, 2009
Very nice collection.
15 Nov, 2009
What do you think about this http://www.BalticBG.com ?
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
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.
18 Nov, 2009
Thanks for featuring one of our sites, we are honored.
22 Nov, 2009
thanks for sharing this collection
30 Dec, 2009
You have a very informative blog that offer a lot of great ideas.
5 Jan, 2010
Nice List … your blog is too good…
6 Jan, 2010
These are awesome thanks