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25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs

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It seems that everyone has a different opinion of what qualifies as a minimalistic design. Here are 25 websites that make use of very little unnecessary design elements but still manage to pull off a beautiful appearance. When it comes to design, if you feel that less is more, I’m sure you will find inspiration from these sites.

For more design inspiration, see:

Rainfall Daffinson
A design firm whose website uses a minimalistic approach to show its work.

Rainfall Daffinson

John Merrells
The blog of entrepreneur John Merrells uses a simple layout with a distinct header image.

John Merrells

SEO Design Studio
A UK SEO Design company that makes a nice use of a few colors.

SEO Design Studio

Ben Hulse Design
The portfolio of a designer and photographer.

Ben Hulse Design

Amy Levy Public Relations
Los Angeles based PR consultant with a very simple and attractive layout.

Amy Levy PR

Jan Reichle
A director and cinematographer with black and white homepage.

Jan Reichle

Brand Spanking New
A three-columned blog whose simple layout allows the content to stand out.

Brand Spanking New

SMO Blog
A nice minimalistic WordPress blog with an attractive color scheme on white background.

SMO Blog

Frieze Magazine
A European magazine of art and culture, Frieze uses several photographs to complement a simple, but beautiful, design.

Frieze Magazine

Mitch Bryson
A portfolio of a UK designer.

Mitch Bryson

simpleModus
Another design company that uses a simple design.

simpleModus

Daniel Scrivner
The portfolio of a web and print designer.

Daniel Scrivner

Indie Labs
The home of a two-man team of web developers.

Indie Labs

Jeff Croft
The blog of an accomplished web and graphic designer.

Jeff Croft

Kind Company
Web and print design company that focuses on simple, usable designs.

Kind Company

Vitec
The portfolio of a freelance web designer.

Vitec

Rikcat Industries
A portfolio that uses a black and white look.

Rikcat Industries

The Morning News
A different kind of news site that doesn’t include a lot of the extra design elements found on most news sites.

The Morning News

Cracked Shell
A California-based designer with a very nice portfolio site.

Crakced Shell

WordPress
The home of leading blogging and CMS provider.

WordPress

Mark Boulton Design
A small design studio that focuses on simple designs.

Mark Boulton Design

AIGA/NY
The New York Chapter of a professional association for design.

AIGA/NY

Jonno Riekwel
The minimalistic portfolio of designer Jonno Riekwel.

Jonno Riekwel

None-Design Media
A portfolio site that uses a black background.

None-Design

Wan Zafran
A personal site that uses minimal amounts of color.

Wan Zafran

EDIT: Also see the follow ups to this collection:

Originally Published October 22nd, 2007

174 Responses

  1. TyCat | October 22nd, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    There are some very well designed sites out there. I hope my site(when done) can be on a list like this.

  2. Vandelay Design | October 22nd, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    TyCat,
    Thanks for your response. Let me know when your site is done, I’d like to see it.

  3. chipseo | October 22nd, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    That is a great collection… I like simple designs as well. Simple and clean are great attention getters when you want to highlight something it is easy when everything else is clean. Scott

  4. Domtan | October 22nd, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    Minimalistic designs are the way. It has great benefits, the illusion automatically transforms content into an elegant masterpiece. “Daily Blog Tips” also have a very clean cut design.

  5. 3kolone | October 23rd, 2007 at 1:58 am

    nice selection

  6. Lyndon Antcliff | October 23rd, 2007 at 2:37 am

    Excellent collection. I love minimalist sites. Nothing must get in the way of the content which is why people are there. I have tried to keep my blog as minimal as possible as it’s the writing content I want people to see.

    I hasten to add I am no designer, so it doesn’t work in IE, lol.

  7. Web Kleck | October 23rd, 2007 at 2:42 am

    minimalistic doesnt mean white. I woud have liked to have seen more colour out of 25 designs

  8. Tay - Make Money Blogging | October 23rd, 2007 at 2:45 am

    I love minimalistic designs. Thanks for sharing all of these Steven, I enjoyed looking through your selection. :)

  9. Ropley | October 23rd, 2007 at 3:28 am

    I’ve been experimenting in minimalism with my small site. It gives a tremendous sense of release and freedom, and lets you focus on the power of words. Of course imagery and color have power too, but words are themselves minimalist representations of often complex concepts.

  10. Daniel Fischer | October 23rd, 2007 at 4:01 am

    I’d have to agree that most of these designs do excel in the minimalistic department; good compilation!

  11. Jon - FreelanceFolder | October 23rd, 2007 at 4:09 am

    Nice list Steven! I especially like SEO Design Studio and Ben Hulse Design. How come VandelayDesign is not the list? :D

  12. Russ @ bombay potatoes | October 23rd, 2007 at 4:19 am

    I looked at a bunch of them and I must admit I didn’t like a single one.

  13. Lee | October 23rd, 2007 at 4:50 am

    You forgot http://leenutter.com/

  14. John | October 23rd, 2007 at 4:52 am

    I think http://rndware.info is beautiful and minimalistic too :)

  15. Wayne Liew | October 23rd, 2007 at 6:37 am

    Minimalistic always is good in terms of site loads speed but I find that it is hard for minimalistic themes to fit in any colourful banners. I am not sure about others but I am facing the problem.

    Anyway, the list of sites are applying minimalistic well and they certainly looked good.

  16. Jirka | October 23rd, 2007 at 7:08 am

    Hi, look at http://www.sonnenstaub.com - these are some friends of mine - minimalistic and beauty is their passion…

  17. Multimedia | October 23rd, 2007 at 7:29 am

    SEO Design Studio! Who does work with them?

  18. Madhur Kapoor | October 23rd, 2007 at 7:59 am

    I would too love to have a simple design like that . These design are good for getting some inspiration for designing.

  19. GraphicArist22 | October 24th, 2007 at 11:22 am

    http://www.pauliesportfolio.com
    i found this website designer, the prices seem cheap and the art is looks authentic and orginal. check out the two sites they have on the choose your site link. i have seen both of those sites before. i like the contact page, a little humorous!

    http://www.pauliesportfolio.com

  20. tobto.org | October 24th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    primitive design IS creative art without any pictures. try that.

  21. moses | October 24th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

    Great design examples … we’re in the process of re-launching our new website and in the mean time, we decided to use a minimalistic design for our front page. It’s funny, never thought we would receive so much praise for a static front page. But goes to show you, simple is better.

  22. Acopic - Web Designers | October 24th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    Some nice designs there. Most pretty well known but nice never the less. I really like the Rainfall Daffinson design.

  23. Jason | October 24th, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    I’d vote for http://www.tripntale.com

  24. Vandelay Design | October 24th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    Russ,
    Sorry you didn’t like any of them. Not everyone has the same opinion on designs.

    Thanks everyone for your feedback and suggestions.

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  27. Chris Coyier | October 24th, 2007 at 9:29 pm

    I’ll vote for Daniel Scrivner, very very nice site.

  28. Gabriel | October 25th, 2007 at 8:30 am

    You need to see our web site too:

    http://www.hexaid.com

  29. Jayme | October 25th, 2007 at 10:42 am

    Yeah Mitch Bryson is the one posting my client’s work on his site without their consent — even after they sent a formal letter requesting that their work be taken down. I advise not to use him for any work unless you want a childish 21 yr old involved in your project.

  30. Keen | October 26th, 2007 at 8:13 am

    Daniel Scrivner’s site is the most beautiful website out of all these. Its simple and clean.

  31. Elliott Cost | October 26th, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    Nice list! My site is done… Will you add it :)

  32. Karthik Balaguru | October 26th, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    Good Impressive Collection :)
    I think, ‘Google’ has also got an Efficient Simple design :):)

    Karthik Balaguru

  33. pop | October 26th, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    crap websites .. thats the end of that!

  34. Vandelay Design | October 26th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    pop,
    Sorry you didn’t like them. Funny how you chose to leave an anonymous comment with no link when you have something negative to say.

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  36. Web Designing | October 27th, 2007 at 12:14 am

    In my opinion minimalistic website are better in points of SEO.

  37. Web Portal Development | October 29th, 2007 at 3:49 am

    Nice collection Vandelay,

    I found some beautiful design which i can use in our new projrcts…..

  38. Curtis | October 29th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    Thanks for listing my site! Wish I would’ve cleaned it up earlier.

    The design will be released as a free Wordpress theme soon.

  39. Vandelay Design | October 29th, 2007 at 7:30 pm

    Curtis,
    No problem, I really like your design. Thanks for stopping by.

  40. Seo Design Solutions | October 30th, 2007 at 10:37 pm

    I like the form and function seamlessly integrated with the airy use of white space and solid definition that many of these sites emulate. I am an artist first and one who creates SEO web design second, but I truly appreciate minimalist web design such as this. It truly is inspiring.

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  43. ang | November 12th, 2007 at 1:45 am

    nice selection. i like jonno riekwel and seo design studio.

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    I work at a minimalistic Website. http://www.leoamato.com

  48. Aelizia | November 26th, 2007 at 8:04 pm

    Hi,
    Awesome!
    Excellent Designs!.Especially that frieze design is superb.
    Good going.Keep it up!

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    Scandinavian minimalism: http://www.nordenswansiirila.fi

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    ExplainThat! is my own site. In my own way I have striven for minimalism and clarity - nothing should get in the way of the content and the message. I’d like to get some feedback on what is good and what is not.

  68. offshore software development | January 21st, 2008 at 11:09 pm

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  70. sophie | January 31st, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    here is another site that caught my attention.

    kazinoor.com

  71. JBiggs | February 6th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    I’m very enjoy reading this content.
    Thank you for good information :)

  72. Dwayne Charrington | February 11th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    The John Merrells layout is possibly my favourite in this list. But the rest weren’t that bad though, I still thought they were effective at being minimalistic.

    - Dwayne Charrington.
    http://www.dwaynecharrington.com

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    Simplicity seems to become website fashion trend. Everyone tend to design their website looks simple and elegant. This thread brings me back to the good old days with frame, bling bling text link and animated gif… lol

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  81. Dolf James | March 10th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    I am just getting started and lean in the minialist direction. I enjoyed looking over your list.

  82. Deb | March 11th, 2008 at 4:13 am

    Really some beautiful websites displayed out here.

  83. motorrev | March 11th, 2008 at 4:18 am

    Some of the sites are really good.

  84. enfopedia | March 15th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Great post to bookmark when you need “design” ideas.

    Thanks for the post.

  85. Ashper | March 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    http://www.cursibits.com too has a very good interface.

  86. Ashper | March 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    misspelled: it was http://www.cursivebits.com

  87. Vish | March 24th, 2008 at 3:56 am

    except one, almost all the others have designed in white.. sortta cool ones.!

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    I like http://www.hazelwoodtimes.com too. Nice simple, clean designed news site.

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  113. Karl Hardisty | June 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 am

    I am a big fan of minimalism with regard to web design. The sites above are definitely examples of this, although I find a number bordering on austere, especially with regard to colour.

    My favourite is johnmerrells.com as it’s restrained, but still brings colour and gradient to the mix.

  114. darkj | June 5th, 2008 at 9:00 am

    matt spann has a good one

  115. Bilgisayar | June 12th, 2008 at 4:14 am

    I love minimalistic designs. Thanks for sharing all of these Steven, I enjoyed looking through your selection

  116. William | June 13th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    very good!
    much better than mine
    I hope I could make it well like you do

  117. Sinol | June 19th, 2008 at 3:30 am

    very nice collection, simple and attractive design is very important with this help people attract your site and also read Content easily.

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  120. Mark | June 23rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    Check http://www.starmenusa.com out! They are a design group from Los Angeles. Very nice!

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  123. Juan Pablo | July 11th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Cool article, thanks!

  124. Fahim Akhter | July 14th, 2008 at 3:20 am

    Crazy Designs, I’m like in so love with minimal designs and it just takes it to a whole different level

  125. Mike | July 14th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    Very nice designs, can you take a look at the design on my site Day 26

  126. Firenze | July 24th, 2008 at 1:19 am

    Hi I really like this blog…I hope you will continue inspiring us (web designers) through your posts. I am a noob in web designing, and I find your tips and posts very useful. Godspeed

    best regards from Philippines!

  127. SBT Bilgisayar | July 25th, 2008 at 10:15 am

    Thanks A Lot
    Crazy Designs, I’m like in so love with minimal designs and it just takes it to a whole different level

  128. TIC | July 26th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    Some of this designs are so minimalistic that they shouldn’t even call them Designs :P just jocking :D

  129. Karan Goyal | July 27th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    Nice designs, all arer great, but SEO Design Studio is “the best”

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  131. Heeren | August 1st, 2008 at 8:18 am

    Hi,

    Excellent collection , usaully i dont like minimal but this one are simly gr8.

    thanks for sharing

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  133. Kai | August 4th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    Thanks for sharing these examples of minimalistic websites.

  134. frank | August 4th, 2008 at 11:01 am

    Thanks for the inspiration!

    Basic, clean and simple - yet very effective designs.

  135. Gadget | August 5th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    I’m glad the minimalist, typography approach is appreciated, but I wish it was more-so compared to graphically heavy sites.

  136. Affordable web design service | August 9th, 2008 at 9:38 am

    I love how those sites looks. But i would say, NoneDesign really is the best, thats is just my opinion of course.But thanks a lot for sharing them.

  137. Zoltan Tomory | August 20th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Relatively speaking I get “minimalistic” and think I have a feel for it when I see it, but do you have formal parameters outlining what you mean?

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  140. Sandy | August 30th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Great Information.. I enjoyed the websites…

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    peoplesoftlearnings.blogspot.com

  141. BilgiDeposu | August 31st, 2008 at 4:48 am

    thanx for sharing..
    nice designs so nice sites…
    http://bilgideposu.blogcu.com

  142. dulal khan | September 3rd, 2008 at 2:31 am

    minimum website are good looking. Most of the design are very simple and nothing extraordinary. please visit this.

  143. dulal khan | September 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 am

    please visit this site
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  147. xok (indie clothing) | September 16th, 2008 at 10:41 am

    Simplicity is always the best policy online, right? Great list, beautiful sites, thanks for sharing.

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  149. Web Design Los Angeles | September 23rd, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Simplicty is the best way to go, having so much going on is a little unattractive

  150. Braeden | September 30th, 2008 at 11:58 pm

    I like the list! Fantastic compilation. The “None-Design” one is magical. Great!

    I just finished my site - tried to make it quite minimalistic. How does it look?

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  152. India Web Design | October 4th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    I always prefer simple minimal websites. You can have a peep in my website http://www.cyberhari.com.
    I am very much enlightened to see so many people with similar interest. Good Work!

  153. Adriatic Web Design | October 25th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    Simplicity is a virtue! thanks alot

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  155. gortler | October 28th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    good post, bookmarking this.

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  160. Jason Gaylor | November 16th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    I’d like to think I kept things fairly simple on http://www.jasongaylor.com

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  162. BORABORA | November 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Really really nice minimalistic website designs!
    I would love to see mine on this page too :)
    Regards

  163. Joe | December 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Minimal? Yes. Beautiful? Not even close.

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  171. Webdesign | December 28th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Very nice portfolio. Just bookmarked! Thanks!

  172. kumbh design | December 29th, 2008 at 7:40 am

    excellent collection, thanks

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