Atomic Cheesecake Studios

www.atomiccheesecakestudios.com

This is a friend of mines daughters site... I love it! Very retro.

Scarlet Bar

scarletbarchicago.com

Beautiful site that stays beautiful as you navigate through it... The color palette is great, the imagery is inviting, and I think for a bar this site is really strong.

Crowley Webb

www.crowleywebb.com

This is so clean it may as well be a bar of soap! I love the navigation on this site!

Ben Lind

benlind.com

Clean.

Trump Tower: Chicago

www.trumpchicago.com

Premium real estate deserves a premium website! Beautiful imagery, good typography, easy navigation, all representing a beautiful building.

Aston Martin

www.astonmartin.com

What would you expect from a car company like this?! I think it's visual magnetism!

Hydrate

hydratechicago.com

A lot going on with this site but I like the logo, color palette, and navigation buttons.

Roscoes Bar

www.roscoes.com

A classic in the gay community. Clean design with some nice animation and music.

Cirque du Soliel

www.cirquedusoleil.com

Nice image, simple navigation.

Grey Goose Vodka

www.greygoosevodka.com

Nice site! I loved the animation in the beginning!

Absolut Vodka

www.absolut.com/us

I always loved their print ads; why should I feel differently about their website? Simple...

Contrast

www.contrast.ie

Do we have to have a reason to like something? Okay... I think this is visually interesting, not something I would have thought of, but I like the movement of it, the feel, and the images. You really need to see the entire site.

Joe Nyaggah

danjoedesign.com

Simple color, simple image, simple type, and clean buttons—I love it! Another designer portfolio...

Digital Mash

http://digitalmash.com

A designers online portfolio, very interesting and I loved the main image...

The Nature Conservancy

www.nature.org

I like the imagery and the ease of navigation...

kiva.org

www.kiva.org

Simplistic and beautiful.

Red Bird Graphics

I like this for the color use—very simple and I think it's well done. I think the typography is clean and simple. Perhaps the only thing I would change would be the arrows—I don't think the arrows work well with the overall feeling of this page, but I think all in all, it's nice

Simple Art Design Studio

www.simpleart.com.ua/en/

Type and image in balance.

Okay...Read the Message

Put the shock value aside and read the copy...

Garamond...Part 2

Nice color use along with texture and image, a lot of content and movement.

Ode to Garamond

My favorite font for body copy...what an easy font to read!

Interesting Typography

I think the typography on the above is very well "played". When I was at UIC, I had an instructor that encouraged us to cut type out of magazines and newspapers (this was before computers), and place it on a page to convey our intent... a lot has changed since then, but I still think it's an interesting exercise.

Room and Board

www.roomandboard.com

Clean design, nice typography, and a pleasing color palette.

Apple Computer

www.apple.com

Consider all the products Apple has...the homepage is beautifully simple, it focus on one major product and then has others below it. The navigation bar is self explanatory and diverse, getting the consumer/viewer to their destination quickly. Apple is a marketing marvel in my opinion, producing computers that are sleek and functional and their webpage follows that idea.