25 Beautiful, Minimalistic Website Designs – Part 2
Published January 14th, 2008 in DesignA few months ago I published a gallery of 25 Beautiful, Minimalistic Website Designs. I received more feedback on that post than almost any other, so I decided to follow up with another 25 minimalistic websites.
If you appreciate websites with a minimalist design style, you’ll love our new gallery site Minimal Exhibit.
Recently redesigned, this community site for web designers uses a simple, effect design.
This graphic designer features an uncluttered layout and a nice color combination.
A visual communications and brand identity studio.
A nice minimalistic design on a black background.
The home of articles with 100 or less words also prefers simplicity in its design.
A minimalistic design on a blue background.
Online portfolio of a student at the University of Pennsylvania.
A Portuguese web design firm that uses very little color in its minimalistic design.
Another dark minimalistic design.
A high-end interactive agency, FL2 uses a simple website to promote its work.
Story writer Edward Pistachio’s website has a minimalistic magazine-style design.
Web and graphic designer with a dark minimalistic site.
A minimalistic design that uses only a few different colors.
A simply-stated website of a student designer.
Another site with a dark background.
UK web designer with a nice, simplistic website.
Another web design firm.
Seattle-based interactive producer.
A very basic layout with an interesting background effect at the top of the page.
A more colorful minimalistic approach.
A dark background for this designer.
This site uses a few different random backgrounds including the one shown below.
Nashville-based web design and search marketing company.
Minimalistic design that uses black, white, and gray.
Portfolio site for freelance web designer/developer.
97 Responses to “25 Beautiful, Minimalistic Website Designs – Part 2”
Very nice ones! in fact!
this proves my motto: Simple is harder!
Awesome list Steven—it’s great inspiration for anyone who’s involved with web design.
Thanks,
– Mason
This is a great list, Steven! It really inspires me and I loved looking at all of these great designs. Stumbled and Dugg. Keep up the great work.
Karim,
Simple is hard. It seems illogical, but an effective minimal design isn’t easy.
Mason and Tay,
Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad you like the gallery.
Yes simplicity is best but people get caught on that and exclude colour…
No colour does not mean no colour. If you look at the best simple designs above, they have colour.
opps the above should read
“no colour does not mean simple designs”
There’s some nice ones on this list Steven. Very cool.
Hmm…. Nice. I think u should used more colour.your design is cool.Thanks.
Great list, thank you for including CSS Globe
CRCBUS is a total (poor man’s) rip off of Kokokaka’s site. And Kokokaka came out WAAAAAAAAY before CRCBUS did. Please don’t reward pirates.
http://kokokaka.com/
Great looking examples, Steven. Gives me some inspiration for when I redesign one of my sites.
Congrats on the del.icio.us front page as well.
Very nice, thanks!
Great research as always, Steve. Keep up the great work!
Great compilation Steve, I’ve always been a sucker for minimalist designs :>
So, this is kinda like mental masturbation. Yes, these are all pretty and interesting designs, but they’re all FOR DESIGNERS. What, pray tell, would you expect from a designer?
Show me a fortune 500 company that goes out on a limb and chooses an expressive, deep, minimalistic design.
Great list, Steven. I Dugg you.
I went to an art/design program last summer and loved their website, http://tuscanclassicalacademy.org/. Certainly agree with scott.
blah blah blah. typography, big deal.
I like most of them, but not all. Simple is fine, but sometimes they just had way too much font graphics for me. Check out my site.
Alen,
Thanks for stopping by. You’re welcome for the inclusion of CSS Globe.
Jermayn and alien,
I agree, color is important. I think there are a few rare designs that look great without color, but they’re in the minority.
Andrei,
Thanks for providing that link. I hadn’t seen that before, definitely a very similar design.
Jason,
Thanks!
Scott,
They’re not all for designers, although very many are. I agree with you that large companies are not going to go with this type of design, but that doesn’t mean that no one else should.
Matthew,
Thanks for the Digg.
Care to comment on this one?
http://www.351.com
I love feedback
Nice list! I have LOVED FreshCreative since I first laid my eyes upon it.
I was about to begin constructing my website when your first post on minimalistic designs came out. It was such great inspiration, that I completely scrapped my original plan and started over again! I do believe the result will be a much better product.
I was inpired by this when making my site.Nice thing.
This is a very cool thing.Carry on.
I love the ‘fresh creative’ text on the Finch site. Anyone know the name of a similar font? Less is more as they say, great work.
Wicked list. Good to see these clean designs…
Nice screens guys. Inspiring bunch of designs…
CRCBUS is not came out after Kokokaka. Please don’t accuse a website if u don’t know a pubblication date.
here is my minimalist site http://www.visiondino.ilive.ro , not my design
Fab designs. I particularly like the Darren Alawi, SayHej! and Superawesome ones. In fact they are all great!
Thanks for featuring my web site here.
Mark,
You’re welcome, it’s a nice looking site.
here’s another one:
http://www.ripstyles.com
This is a great list. I would love to see some comments on mine.
http://patrickrhone.com
Hi Patrick,
Your site looks nice, certainly a minimalist approach.
cool one
Thanks for the notice. Proud to be included on your list.
-Jeremy Brosowsky
founder & CEO, Brijit
http://www.brijit.com/
Here’s another one:
http://www.workingimagination.com
Jeremy,
You’re welcome. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
Mike,
Thanks for the link, it looks good.
A great website about decor and home design. Also tips about how to clean and care Cowhide Rugs, Calf Hides and Skins
Intresting content, not very good use of colors though…
agreed, aside from monoroot those colors are not very flashy. I do like the simplicity of most of the sites. Less is more on most occasions.
Thanks for the collection of those beautiful minimalistic designs! They inspired me a lot when we re-designed our website… they gave me guts to embrace the beauty of simplicity!
Wonderfull post
And Jon Tan Super
Thanks very much for posting this list. We’re looking for inspiration and this offered some! We’ll be using some of this in the future.
R. Hughes
Production Music Library
Thanks for the list. It was very helpful inspiration for my portfolio!
thank you!
Very cool designs, particularly like the gedanken site.
Suggested websites: http://www.xtencil.com or http://www.twopoints.net. Thanks!
Simply Simple and Amazing!!
Lots cool stuff. Love minimal design. Although lot people misunderstand the mean of minimal.
Josh Minnich, excelent designer
Love these as well!
Here are some I check out:
http://www.alexafalcone.com/
http://www.wearebuild.com/
http://www.siiimple.com/
Why are all these “top xxxx” sites always web design agencies or web designer portfolios!? Surely this is not what inspires other designers but instead real designs in other industries other than design! This is what kind of inspiration we need help with not on our portfolios!!
Manisha,
Yes, there are a lot of portfolio sites in this list. Portfolio sites are much more likely than other types of sites to use a minimal style of design.
That’s really cool list. I’ll use it as soon as posible!!!
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