2012 was clearly an interesting year design-wise. The responsive boom in web design gave birth to brilliant redesigns; clever layouts emerged with a focus on clear typography and impactful, contrasty colors. Large background images with a mood-setting character and sharp edges on unusual shapes were combined with interesting, yet intuitive interaction. Elegance meets down-to-earthness, that would be the motto I’d pick for a wonderful and exciting year of web design.
We want to share some of our favorite web designs from 2012. It is by no means a complete collection, but just a slice of some of the most impressive designs that stood out. Take a look and get inspired. Maybe it will get you excited about what the next year will bring and give you some ideas on how web design will evolve.
Supereight Studio
Crafting Type
Build 2012
Daniel Hopwood
Philip House
Like There Is No Tomorrow
Hipstamatic
Gin Lane Media
Manos
Buffalo
The Mealings
Elliot Jay Stocks
Fine Thought
Nick Jones
Drexel University
Joint
Sound Creatures Pictoplasma
Nudge
Bad Racket
Banger’s
Formfett
Squarespace
Muriel Labro
Circles
nanozoom
Wicked Palate
Lotta Nieminen
Fear the Grizzly
Pure Pleasure Design
Impero
Rockaway Relief
Startup Giraffe
Matthew Carleton
Mosaic
Andrew Lucas
Offscreen
Flywheel
Anonymous
Cue
We hope you enjoyed this little list and became inspired!
What’s your favorite web design of 2012?
CSS Click Events
Nice Selection,Personally I like it
good job ! yu best !
Oi, tudo bem?
Seu website faz muito sucesso aqui no Brasil, e essa seleção de 2012 foi espetacular.
Very cool website selection, really great work of art. I would love to be a part of any these website developers. Amazing!
great websites, really like the bangers one!
Interesting list. Love the beautiful timeline in photobook from iOS.
Great Clean Designs. Very inspirational for the new year.
I want to share this amazing post but i dont find a button to do it :(
My favourite website of 2012 is http://www.trafficlight.se