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25 Beautiful, Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 2

A 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.

CSS Globe

Recently redesigned, this community site for web designers uses a simple, effect design.

CSS Globe screen shot

Finch

This graphic designer features an uncluttered layout and a nice color combination.

Finch screen shot

Maqina

A visual communications and brand identity studio.

Maqina screen shot

Darren Alawi

A nice minimalistic design on a black background.

Darren Alawi screen shot

Brijit

The home of articles with 100 or less words also prefers simplicity in its design.

Brijit screen shot

CRCBUS

A minimalistic design on a blue background.

CRCBUS screen shot

Brynn Shepherd

Online portfolio of a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brynn Shepherd screen shot

Chama Inc.

A Portuguese web design firm that uses very little color in its minimalistic design.

Chama Inc screen shot

SayHej!

Another dark minimalistic design.

SayHej! screen shot

FL2

A high-end interactive agency, FL2 uses a simple website to promote its work.

FL2 screen shot

Oranges

Story writer Edward Pistachio’s website has a minimalistic magazine-style design.

O.rang.es screen shot

Janic Design

Web and graphic designer with a dark minimalistic site.

Janic screen shot

Gedankenberg

A minimalistic design that uses only a few different colors.

Gendankenberg screen shot

Achtentachtig

A simply-stated website of a student designer.

AchtentachtigAchtentachtig screen shot

Headcase Barbers

Another site with a dark background.

Headcase Barbers screen shot

Jon Tan

UK web designer with a nice, simplistic website.

Jon Tan screen shot

Superawesome

Another web design firm.

Superawesome screen shot

Mark Wieman

Seattle-based interactive producer.

Mark Wieman screen shot

Cameron i/o

A very basic layout with an interesting background effect at the top of the page.

Cameron i/o screen shot

The Design Canopy

A more colorful minimalistic approach.

Design Canopy screen shot

Monoroot

A dark background for this designer.

Monoroot screen shot

Huge

This site uses a few different random backgrounds including the one shown below.

Huge Inc screen shot

Sitening

Nashville-based web design and search marketing company.

Sitening screen shot

Postmachina

Minimalistic design that uses black, white, and gray.

Postmachina screen shot

Josh Minnich

Portfolio site for freelance web designer/developer.

Josh Minnich screen shot

Originally Published January 14th, 2008

92 Responses

  1. Karim
    January 14th, 2008

    Very nice ones! in fact!
    this proves my motto: Simple is harder!

  2. Mason Hipp
    January 14th, 2008

    Awesome list Steven—it’s great inspiration for anyone who’s involved with web design.

    Thanks,

    - Mason

  3. Tay - Super Blogging
    January 14th, 2008

    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. :)

  4. Vandelay Design
    January 14th, 2008

    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.

  5. Jermayn Parker
    January 14th, 2008

    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.

  6. Jermayn Parker
    January 14th, 2008

    opps the above should read

    “no colour does not mean simple designs”

  7. Simon Ward
    January 14th, 2008

    There’s some nice ones on this list Steven. Very cool.

  8. alien abductions
    January 14th, 2008

    Hmm…. Nice. I think u should used more colour.your design is cool.Thanks.

  9. Alen
    January 14th, 2008

    Great list, thank you for including CSS Globe :)

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  11. Andrei
    January 15th, 2008

    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/

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  13. Web design minimalistici at RedOnWeb
    January 15th, 2008

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  14. Jason Bartholme
    January 15th, 2008

    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.

  15. Alex
    January 15th, 2008

    Very nice, thanks!

  16. Ruchir
    January 15th, 2008

    Great research as always, Steve. Keep up the great work!

  17. Tibi Puiu
    January 15th, 2008

    Great compilation Steve, I’ve always been a sucker for minimalist designs :>

  18. scott
    January 15th, 2008

    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.

  19. Matthew Griffin
    January 15th, 2008

    Great list, Steven. I Dugg you.

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  21. adrien
    January 15th, 2008

    I went to an art/design program last summer and loved their website, http://tuscanclassicalacademy.org/. Certainly agree with scott.

  22. tyler
    January 15th, 2008

    blah blah blah. typography, big deal.

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  24. Scott
    January 15th, 2008

    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.

  25. Vandelay Design
    January 15th, 2008

    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.

  26. Goncalo Fonseca
    January 15th, 2008

    Care to comment on this one?
    http://www.351.com
    I love feedback ;)

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  30. Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer
    January 16th, 2008

    Nice list! I have LOVED FreshCreative since I first laid my eyes upon it.

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  32. Kristen
    January 16th, 2008

    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.

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  36. music news
    January 16th, 2008

    I was inpired by this when making my site.Nice thing.

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    This is a very cool thing.Carry on.

  38. Goji Girl
    January 17th, 2008

    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.

  39. julian the designer
    January 19th, 2008

    Wicked list. Good to see these clean designs…

  40. Sam Law
    January 19th, 2008

    Nice screens guys. Inspiring bunch of designs…

  41. Mat
    January 21st, 2008

    CRCBUS is not came out after Kokokaka. Please don’t accuse a website if u don’t know a pubblication date.

  42. vision dino
    January 21st, 2008

    here is my minimalist site http://www.visiondino.ilive.ro , not my design

  43. Stevia
    January 23rd, 2008

    Fab designs. I particularly like the Darren Alawi, SayHej! and Superawesome ones. In fact they are all great!

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  45. Mark Wieman
    January 24th, 2008

    Thanks for featuring my web site here.

  46. Vandelay Design
    January 24th, 2008

    Mark,
    You’re welcome, it’s a nice looking site.

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  48. anonymous
    January 26th, 2008

    here’s another one:

    http://www.ripstyles.com

  49. Patrick Rhone
    January 27th, 2008

    This is a great list. I would love to see some comments on mine.
    http://patrickrhone.com

  50. Vandelay Design
    January 27th, 2008

    Hi Patrick,
    Your site looks nice, certainly a minimalist approach.

  51. sauravh
    January 28th, 2008

    cool one

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  53. JeremyB
    January 28th, 2008

    Thanks for the notice. Proud to be included on your list.

    -Jeremy Brosowsky
    founder & CEO, Brijit
    http://www.brijit.com/

  54. Mike
    January 28th, 2008

    Here’s another one:

    http://www.workingimagination.com

  55. Vandelay Design
    January 28th, 2008

    Jeremy,
    You’re welcome. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.

    Mike,
    Thanks for the link, it looks good.

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  63. iH8Shia
    March 24th, 2008

    Intresting content, not very good use of colors though…

  64. Josh
    May 20th, 2008

    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.

  65. Guang@ HouDeAsianArt.com
    May 27th, 2008

    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!

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    June 4th, 2008

    Wonderfull post

  67. Sohbet
    June 11th, 2008

    And Jon Tan Super

  68. R. Hughes
    June 20th, 2008

    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

  69. Micah
    June 20th, 2008

    Thanks for the list. It was very helpful inspiration for my portfolio!

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    thank you!

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