It seems that everyone has a different opinion of what qualifies as a minimalistic design. Here are 25 websites that make use of very little unnecessary design elements but still manage to pull off a beautiful appearance. When it comes to design, if you feel that less is more, I’m sure you will find inspiration from these sites.
Rainfall Daffinson
A design firm whose website uses a minimalistic approach to show its work.
John Merrells
The blog of entrepreneur John Merrells uses a simple layout with a distinct header image.
SEO Design Studio
A UK SEO Design company that makes a nice use of a few colors.
Ben Hulse Design
The portfolio of a designer and photographer.
Amy Levy Public Relations
Los Angeles based PR consultant with a very simple and attractive layout.
Jan Reichle
A director and cinematographer with black and white homepage.
Brand Spanking New
A three-columned blog whose simple layout allows the content to stand out.
SMO Blog
A nice minimalistic WordPress blog with an attractive color scheme on white background.
Frieze Magazine
A European magazine of art and culture, Frieze uses several photographs to complement a simple, but beautiful, design.
Mitch Bryson
A portfolio of a UK designer.
simpleModus
Another design company that uses a simple design.
Daniel Scrivner
The portfolio of a web and print designer.
Indie Labs
The home of a two-man team of web developers.
Jeff Croft
The blog of an accomplished web and graphic designer.
Kind Company
Web and print design company that focuses on simple, usable designs.
Vitec
The portfolio of a freelance web designer.
Rikcat Industries
A portfolio that uses a black and white look.
The Morning News
A different kind of news site that doesn’t include a lot of the extra design elements found on most news sites.
Cracked Shell
A California-based designer with a very nice portfolio site.
WordPress
The home of leading blogging and CMS provider.
Mark Boulton Design
A small design studio that focuses on simple designs.
AIGA/NY
The New York Chapter of a professional association for design.
Jonno Riekwel
The minimalistic portfolio of designer Jonno Riekwel.
None-Design Media
A portfolio site that uses a black background.
Wan Zafran
A personal site that uses minimal amounts of color.
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There are some very well designed sites out there. I hope my site(when done) can be on a list like this.
TyCat,
Thanks for your response. Let me know when your site is done, I’d like to see it.
That is a great collection… I like simple designs as well. Simple and clean are great attention getters when you want to highlight something it is easy when everything else is clean. Scott
Minimalistic designs are the way. It has great benefits, the illusion automatically transforms content into an elegant masterpiece. “Daily Blog Tips” also have a very clean cut design.
nice selection
Excellent collection. I love minimalist sites. Nothing must get in the way of the content which is why people are there. I have tried to keep my blog as minimal as possible as it’s the writing content I want people to see.
I hasten to add I am no designer, so it doesn’t work in IE, lol.
minimalistic doesnt mean white. I woud have liked to have seen more colour out of 25 designs
I love minimalistic designs. Thanks for sharing all of these Steven, I enjoyed looking through your selection.
I’ve been experimenting in minimalism with my small site. It gives a tremendous sense of release and freedom, and lets you focus on the power of words. Of course imagery and color have power too, but words are themselves minimalist representations of often complex concepts.
I’d have to agree that most of these designs do excel in the minimalistic department; good compilation!
Nice list Steven! I especially like SEO Design Studio and Ben Hulse Design. How come VandelayDesign is not the list?
I looked at a bunch of them and I must admit I didn’t like a single one.
You forgot http://leenutter.com/
I think http://rndware.info is beautiful and minimalistic too
Minimalistic always is good in terms of site loads speed but I find that it is hard for minimalistic themes to fit in any colourful banners. I am not sure about others but I am facing the problem.
Anyway, the list of sites are applying minimalistic well and they certainly looked good.
Hi, look at http://www.sonnenstaub.com - these are some friends of mine - minimalistic and beauty is their passion…
SEO Design Studio! Who does work with them?
I would too love to have a simple design like that . These design are good for getting some inspiration for designing.
http://www.pauliesportfolio.com
i found this website designer, the prices seem cheap and the art is looks authentic and orginal. check out the two sites they have on the choose your site link. i have seen both of those sites before. i like the contact page, a little humorous!
http://www.pauliesportfolio.com
primitive design IS creative art without any pictures. try that.
Great design examples … we’re in the process of re-launching our new website and in the mean time, we decided to use a minimalistic design for our front page. It’s funny, never thought we would receive so much praise for a static front page. But goes to show you, simple is better.
Some nice designs there. Most pretty well known but nice never the less. I really like the Rainfall Daffinson design.
I’d vote for http://www.tripntale.com
Russ,
Sorry you didn’t like any of them. Not everyone has the same opinion on designs.
Thanks everyone for your feedback and suggestions.
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I’ll vote for Daniel Scrivner, very very nice site.
You need to see our web site too:
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Yeah Mitch Bryson is the one posting my client’s work on his site without their consent — even after they sent a formal letter requesting that their work be taken down. I advise not to use him for any work unless you want a childish 21 yr old involved in your project.
Daniel Scrivner’s site is the most beautiful website out of all these. Its simple and clean.
Nice list! My site is done… Will you add it
Good Impressive Collection
I think, ‘Google’ has also got an Efficient Simple design :):)
Karthik Balaguru
crap websites .. thats the end of that!
pop,
Sorry you didn’t like them. Funny how you chose to leave an anonymous comment with no link when you have something negative to say.
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In my opinion minimalistic website are better in points of SEO.
Nice collection Vandelay,
I found some beautiful design which i can use in our new projrcts…..
Thanks for listing my site! Wish I would’ve cleaned it up earlier.
The design will be released as a free Wordpress theme soon.
Curtis,
No problem, I really like your design. Thanks for stopping by.
I like the form and function seamlessly integrated with the airy use of white space and solid definition that many of these sites emulate. I am an artist first and one who creates SEO web design second, but I truly appreciate minimalist web design such as this. It truly is inspiring.
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Hi,
Awesome!
Excellent Designs!.Especially that frieze design is superb.
Good going.Keep it up!
25 sites web au design minimaliste mais magnifique…
Dans le lien ci-dessous vous trouverez une sélection de 25 sites web avec un design minimaliste : c’est simple, c’est léger, ça n’agresse pas l’oeil, c’est clair et aéré. Des exemples à suivre, assurément !
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ExplainThat! is my own site. In my own way I have striven for minimalism and clarity - nothing should get in the way of the content and the message. I’d like to get some feedback on what is good and what is not.
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kazinoor.com
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The John Merrells layout is possibly my favourite in this list. But the rest weren’t that bad though, I still thought they were effective at being minimalistic.
- Dwayne Charrington.
http://www.dwaynecharrington.com
Those sites look very good, but don’t forget that sometimes using “Simple” white templates can hinder your blog performance in terms of memorability!
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Simplicity seems to become website fashion trend. Everyone tend to design their website looks simple and elegant. This thread brings me back to the good old days with frame, bling bling text link and animated gif… lol
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I am just getting started and lean in the minialist direction. I enjoyed looking over your list.
Really some beautiful websites displayed out here.
Some of the sites are really good.
Great post to bookmark when you need “design” ideas.
Thanks for the post.
http://www.cursibits.com too has a very good interface.
misspelled: it was http://www.cursivebits.com
except one, almost all the others have designed in white.. sortta cool ones.!
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i have some useful websites which add a value to this list
which is bloomtools, australianfranchises.com.au and geckointeractive.com.au hope i am right..
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Simple though Beautiful designs a very rare collection of such minimal designs is seen i liked specially the ” Frieze Magazine ” .
Simplicity seems to become website fashion trend. Everyone tend to design their website looks simple and elegant. This thread brings me back to the good old days with frame, bling bling text link and animated gif… lol
I love simplistic yet effective designs… too many people try to complicate things when it comes to design. Complex designs usually mean more to take your visitor’s attention span off of the verbiage or message you are trying to get across to them.
I like http://www.hazelwoodtimes.com too. Nice simple, clean designed news site.
I have gone through one superb design websites, and they really rocks, amazing design they have made for their blog.
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I love minimalist website design… when i can find it. They’re quite rare. But i think - sadly - it’s an aesthetic appeciation that is lacking. In music, silence holds the notes together; it’s the space in which they are born. Same with design. The while space is so important; it gives room for the content to breathe.
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I am a big fan of minimalism with regard to web design. The sites above are definitely examples of this, although I find a number bordering on austere, especially with regard to colour.
My favourite is johnmerrells.com as it’s restrained, but still brings colour and gradient to the mix.
matt spann has a good one
I love minimalistic designs. Thanks for sharing all of these Steven, I enjoyed looking through your selection
very good!
much better than mine
I hope I could make it well like you do
very nice collection, simple and attractive design is very important with this help people attract your site and also read Content easily.
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Check http://www.starmenusa.com out! They are a design group from Los Angeles. Very nice!
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Crazy Designs, I’m like in so love with minimal designs and it just takes it to a whole different level
Very nice designs, can you take a look at the design on my site Day 26
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Crazy Designs, I’m like in so love with minimal designs and it just takes it to a whole different level
Some of this designs are so minimalistic that they shouldn’t even call them Designs
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Nice designs, all arer great, but SEO Design Studio is “the best”
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Thanks for sharing these examples of minimalistic websites.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Basic, clean and simple - yet very effective designs.
I’m glad the minimalist, typography approach is appreciated, but I wish it was more-so compared to graphically heavy sites.
I love how those sites looks. But i would say, NoneDesign really is the best, thats is just my opinion of course.But thanks a lot for sharing them.
Relatively speaking I get “minimalistic” and think I have a feel for it when I see it, but do you have formal parameters outlining what you mean?
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Simplicty is the best way to go, having so much going on is a little unattractive
I like the list! Fantastic compilation. The “None-Design” one is magical. Great!
I just finished my site - tried to make it quite minimalistic. How does it look?
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I am very much enlightened to see so many people with similar interest. Good Work!
Simplicity is a virtue! thanks alot
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