A few of the most popular posts on this blog are the 3 collections of inspirational, minimal web designs (see part 1, part 2, and part 3). So why stop there? These 25 sites are also clean and attractive.
If you appreciate websites with a minimalist design style, you’ll love our new gallery site Minimal Exhibit.
For more minimalistic inspiration, see:
Originally Published September 15th, 2008
46 Responses
Leave a Reply
15 Steps to a More Productive Workday
77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer
Find the Perfect Colors for Your Website
Top 10 Tutorials for Developing WordPress Themes
Category Hacks for WordPress Theme Designers
12 Realities of Pricing Design Services
Minimalistic Websites Part III
Beautifully Colorful Websites Part II
Beautifully Colorful Websites Part III
Beautifully Colorful Websites Part IV
Beautifully Dark Websites Part II
Beautifully Dark Websites Part III
Inspirational E-Commerce Websites
Inspirational E-Commerce Websites - Part II
Incredibly Artistic Websites Part II
Incredibly Artistic Websites Part III
Incredibly Artistic Websites Part IV
The Best Church Websites Part II
The Best Photographer Portfolio Sites
Nature-Inspired Website Designs
11 Tutorials for Business Card Design
15 Tutorials for Creating Product Advertisements
20+ Tutorials for Working with Photoshop's Tools
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures
25 Tutorials for Using Illustrator and Photoshop Together
25+ Photoshop Tutorials for Poster Design
30 Photo Manipulation Tutorials for Photoshop
35 Tutorials for Creating Website Layouts
35 Tutorials for Mastering Photoshop Brushes
35 Tutorials for Realistic Results
35 Tutorials Inspired by Apple
35 Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters
40 Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects
40 Tutorials for Amazing Lighting Effects - Part II
40 Tutorials for Textures and Backgrounds
40 Tutorials for Designing Icons
40 Photoshop Illustration Tutorials
40 Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper (Pt. 2)
45 Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper
45 Tutorials for Navigation Menus
60 Tutorials for Photo Touch Ups
September 15th, 2008
corporateriskwatch.com is probably my favourite; probably due to the rollover style for the menu, which is a little bit different. It offers excellent focus, and leaves the visitor in no doubt as to which link the cursor is currently hovering over.
Unfortunately, buuhouse.com is not loading most of the images, or not at all for me at present.
September 15th, 2008
Hmm. It’s not loading for me either. It was last night. I’ll give it a little while before removing it from the list.
September 15th, 2008
Great stuff! Thanks!
September 15th, 2008
Oh, and to add that, I especially like devwp.com, don’t know why…
September 16th, 2008
Excellent list. My favorire is BeingWicked web site!
September 16th, 2008
Lovely sites. I love minimalistic sites done right. It shows that you don’t have to cram your designs for them to look good. Sometimes less is more!
September 16th, 2008
Great Work!
September 16th, 2008
wew.i like this list.keep it up
Ronald
September 16th, 2008
Once again, I don’t get included in the lists… Check out my single-page portfolio site for white minimal using XHTML, CSS, jQuery, sIFR!
September 16th, 2008
Great list! Good source for inspiration.. Thanks!
September 16th, 2008
Another excellent collection! I really love minimalistic designs, they appear to look “simple”, but a lot of thought goes into them.
September 16th, 2008
Wow, wevio is really cool. I’m a real fan of the grayscale, and the details using pngs makes the simplicity really pop.
September 16th, 2008
If you want to be thorough, this series can become The Young and The Restless of web design
But really. Minimalistic design can always be a source of inspiration for a simple reason that it allows everybody to perceive it personally. Also, it allows you as a designer to easier transmit your message.
We have gone a bit further by introducing the imaginary concept of FEETER instead of footer. Without any discrimination, we put web pages in their natural order, on two feet instead of one. This approach fits perfectly with minimalistic web design as the light-weight two-feet pages can move then through the web much faster, strengthened and without any extra burden.
September 16th, 2008
This is a really nice collection of websites here. Love minimalistic design.
Leroy Fernandes
http://www.fuelmediaworks.com
September 16th, 2008
I like theme magazines. I just finds that it looks great.
September 17th, 2008
It’s interesting to note how the majority of “minimal” designs are white. I wonder if it’s the colour that makes people perceive it as minimal, or if designers think of the colour white when aiming for minimalism.
September 17th, 2008
Denis,
I think it’s a bit of both. When I’m looking to put these galleries together, the white ones do stand out to me, so it’s partly my own perception. But I think designers that are intentionally going for a clean minimal look will typically go with white.
September 17th, 2008
[...] 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4 | Vandelay Website Design (tags: websites webdesign) [...]
September 17th, 2008
[...] Source: Vandelay Web Design; Date: 2008 / 15 [...]
September 17th, 2008
Hey thank you to have added our website : Koleo. This is really nice when we see people loving our stuff =)
Nice selection, by the way, really useful !
September 17th, 2008
[...] Simplicity is beautiful 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4 | Vandelay Website Design [...]
September 18th, 2008
Thanks for sharing this set!
fantastic
September 18th, 2008
Thanks for putting together such a great list! Minimalist web design is one of the hardest to get right and these are some lovely examples.
September 19th, 2008
Great website designs. They are perfect because there not too flashy or bright, which can be very distracting for most people.
September 20th, 2008
[...] 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4 [...]
September 25th, 2008
love this designs.. its really nice…
September 30th, 2008
Thanks for featuring my site!
October 1st, 2008
[...] Visit Source [...]
October 8th, 2008
these are pretty impressive, i like the koleo site design
October 30th, 2008
[...] 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4 | Vandelay Website Design [...]
November 3rd, 2008
I really enjoy these minimalist feature articles, and don’t think it’s as easy to accomplish this sort of design as one might think.
Thanks for the posts!
November 11th, 2008
Great list. Does anyone know who designed the Corporate Risk Watch site?
November 11th, 2008
[...] 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4 | Vandelay Website Design [...]
November 13th, 2008
So glad to see that “less is more” designs coming back into fashion. It also helps that website layouts have a lot more space to work with, thus the increases in white space.
Could you ever imagine so much white space in a 800×600 design?
November 16th, 2008
[...] 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4 | Vandelay Website Design [...]
November 22nd, 2008
Really really nice minimalistic website designs!
…Looking forward for part#5!
Maybe one day mine will be on this page too
Regards
December 25th, 2008
[...] http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/beautiful-minimal/ [...]
January 6th, 2009
[...] designed and coded. This design was featured in Smashing Magazine, Vandelay Website Design, Design By Grid, CSS Gallery and others, as an example of beautiful, minimal web site design. Now [...]
February 5th, 2009
I like your use of white space around text and photos - or, in the case of Kyan, turquoise space! I think this design was both striking and clean - my only question is: is a home page with such little content OK for SEO? - Or are backlinks king nowadays?
Very good portfolio!
February 5th, 2009
John,
These websites were not designed by us. It’s just a collection of designs from various designers.
February 12th, 2009
Hi,
I’ve stumble upon your collections looking for inspiration. Thanks, it really put ideas in my head. I always tell people “KISS” Keep It Simple & Short! I love the simplicity and yet it is still eye-catching.
Thanks again for sharing with us.
March 6th, 2009
[...] http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/beautiful-minimal/ (part 4) [...]
March 28th, 2009
[...] 25 Beautifully Minimalistic Websites - Part 4 [...]
May 5th, 2009
You have inspired me. Thank you very much. Good luck with your site
May 5th, 2009
These collections are brilliant.
I come back every so often and go through these collections as inspiration and a reminder of how simple works best. We also send the links to clients to provide some ideas for their sites, and find this works well as it shows clients how well a simple, clean, uncluttered design works.
June 10th, 2009
[...] the archives are the inspirational galleries of minimalistic designs part 1 and part 2 (Update - Part 4 has also now been published). Over the past few months I’ve continued to come across [...]