25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs
October 22nd, 2007It 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.
Rainfall Daffinson
A design firm whose website uses a minimalistic approach to show its work.
John Merrells
The blog of entrepreneur John Merrells uses a simple layout with a distinct header image.
SEO Design Studio
A UK SEO Design company that makes a nice use of a few colors.
Ben Hulse Design
The portfolio of a designer and photographer.
Amy Levy Public Relations
Los Angeles based PR consultant with a very simple and attractive layout.
Jan Reichle
A director and cinematographer with black and white homepage.
Brand Spanking New
A three-columned blog whose simple layout allows the content to stand out.
SMO Blog
A nice minimalistic WordPress blog with an attractive color scheme on white background.
Frieze Magazine
A European magazine of art and culture, Frieze uses several photographs to complement a simple, but beautiful, design.
Mitch Bryson
A portfolio of a UK designer.
simpleModus
Another design company that uses a simple design.
Daniel Scrivner
The portfolio of a web and print designer.
Indie Labs
The home of a two-man team of web developers.
Jeff Croft
The blog of an accomplished web and graphic designer.
Kind Company
Web and print design company that focuses on simple, usable designs.
Vitec
The portfolio of a freelance web designer.
Rikcat Industries
A portfolio that uses a black and white look.
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.
Cracked Shell
A California-based designer with a very nice portfolio site.
WordPress
The home of leading blogging and CMS provider.
Mark Boulton Design
A small design studio that focuses on simple designs.
AIGA/NY
The New York Chapter of a professional association for design.
Jonno Riekwel
The minimalistic portfolio of designer Jonno Riekwel.
None-Design Media
A portfolio site that uses a black background.
Wan Zafran
A personal site that uses minimal amounts of color.
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.
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.
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
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.
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:58 am
nice selection
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.
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:42 am
minimalistic doesnt mean white. I woud have liked to have seen more colour out of 25 designs
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:45 am
I love minimalistic designs. Thanks for sharing all of these Steven, I enjoyed looking through your selection.
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.
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!
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?
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.
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:50 am
You forgot http://leenutter.com/
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:52 am
I think http://rndware.info is beautiful and minimalistic too
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.
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…
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:29 am
SEO Design Studio! Who does work with them?
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.
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
October 24th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
primitive design IS creative art without any pictures. try that.
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.
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.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I’d vote for http://www.tripntale.com
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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October 24th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
I’ll vote for Daniel Scrivner, very very nice site.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:30 am
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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.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Daniel Scrivner’s site is the most beautiful website out of all these. Its simple and clean.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Nice list! My site is done… Will you add it
October 26th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Good Impressive Collection
I think, ‘Google’ has also got an Efficient Simple design :):)
Karthik Balaguru
October 26th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
crap websites .. thats the end of that!
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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October 27th, 2007 at 12:14 am
In my opinion minimalistic website are better in points of SEO.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:49 am
Nice collection Vandelay,
I found some beautiful design which i can use in our new projrcts…..
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.
October 29th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Curtis,
No problem, I really like your design. Thanks for stopping by.
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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November 12th, 2007 at 1:45 am
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I work at a minimalistic Website. http://www.leoamato.com
November 26th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Hi,
Awesome!
Excellent Designs!.Especially that frieze design is superb.
Good going.Keep it up!
November 27th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
25 sites web au design minimaliste mais magnifique…
Dans le lien ci-dessous vous trouverez une sélection de 25 sites web avec un design minimaliste : c’est simple, c’est léger, ça n’agresse pas l’oeil, c’est clair et aéré. Des exemples à suivre, assurément !
L’article……
December 4th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
good site design:book by its cover…
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January 9th, 2008 at 5:30 am
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January 20th, 2008 at 6:00 am
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.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:09 pm
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please keep it up
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January 31st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
here is another site that caught my attention.
kazinoor.com
February 6th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I’m very enjoy reading this content.
Thank you for good information
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
February 13th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Those sites look very good, but don’t forget that sometimes using “Simple” white templates can hinder your blog performance in terms of memorability!
February 20th, 2008 at 7:28 am
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February 21st, 2008 at 7:45 pm
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
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Great Design Work!
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March 10th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I am just getting started and lean in the minialist direction. I enjoyed looking over your list.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Really some beautiful websites displayed out here.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Some of the sites are really good.
March 15th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Great post to bookmark when you need “design” ideas.
Thanks for the post.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
http://www.cursibits.com too has a very good interface.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
misspelled: it was http://www.cursivebits.com
March 24th, 2008 at 3:56 am
except one, almost all the others have designed in white.. sortta cool ones.!
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April 9th, 2008 at 6:29 am
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May 1st, 2008 at 6:29 am
Simple though Beautiful designs a very rare collection of such minimal designs is seen i liked specially the ” Frieze Magazine ” .
May 5th, 2008 at 4:11 am
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May 6th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I love simplistic yet effective designs… too many people try to complicate things when it comes to design. Complex designs usually mean more to take your visitor’s attention span off of the verbiage or message you are trying to get across to them.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:49 am
I like http://www.hazelwoodtimes.com too. Nice simple, clean designed news site.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
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http://www.ndesign-studio.com/