25 Fresh Examples of Minimalist Web Designs

Posted by Gisele Muller on May 9, 2011 | 23 Comments

I believe that we can agree that minimal and clean websites are the new black. Every day people seem to be embracing more and more the idea of less is more. So we decided to gather a new list of minimal and clean websites to show you how designers are showcasing minimalism on websites. And here you will also see some use of color, showing that minimal does not mean colorless.

Craft – WordPress Portfolio Theme

Plastical

Girlfriend

Bestwork

Stephon Vernon Clarke

Snagly

Saville’s

EEHarbor

Adore You

Barnt & Arnst

Jon Montenegro

Holger Huber

Lundgren+Lindqvist

Louise O’Reilly

Ahrens

Atlason

Marlon Medau

iPhone-icon

Jeremy Gleave

Core

Logartis 2011

Corpus

P.A.P.

Unfold

Tinkering Monkey

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Gisele Muller is someone that recently discovered a new career online. A person that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. An eternal geek wannabe, tech fan and a communication lover! Current location: San Bruno, CA – USA. Twitter: @gismullr

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23 comments

Tristar Web Design
May 9, 2011
I really like the Logartis website, it’s so calm looking and the animation around the tree works wonderfully. I would love to be able to create something as complex as that. I love that the birds are comments. It would be great if you showcased more websites like this. Simplicity wise, I also like Tinkering Monkey.
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- jonny
  May 9, 2011
  true but flash
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Zia
May 9, 2011
nice designs
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Hannah
May 9, 2011
I love minimalistic design, thanks for sharing these great examples. The Jon Montenegro site is very unusual – it’s definitely memorable!
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Butch V.
May 9, 2011
Stephen Vernon Clarke and Plastical are my favourites. They are simple and their work shown inside are the highlight among the rest of their site.

John Montenegro good too but the loading time for the navigation is kind of long and makes me want to look at something else. I don’t have the patience to wait for something to load like that.

Nice article though! The rest of the sites are nice and clean. Thanks!
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sanji
May 9, 2011
Cool round up! minimalist is gaining more these days.
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Tabris Chen
May 9, 2011
So many that I like! Thanks for the great list
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Jeremy
May 9, 2011
I have a little preference for the Ahrens website.
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Brian Wilkins
May 9, 2011
Very nice selection.
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gBaniya
May 9, 2011
great collection.. tkz for sharing….
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ricardo avalos
May 9, 2011
Greats compilation!!!!

Very good work, congratulations!!
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Jesdoit
May 9, 2011
^^ i loved the logartis interactive website. very inspiring! lol i made 2 wishes on that site. hehe
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Vivek Dhande
May 10, 2011
I am a long time fan of minimalistic design, yet never see such a ultimate showcase. Thanks for sharing these!
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Fredrik Delin
May 10, 2011
Some people think of minimal design as a shortcut. A kind of style where creativity is hampered. Were the designers lazy or did they simply not have enough time to complete it? But it’s easy to see the difference. When you have come full circle both with the concept and the design and gone through iteration after iteration removing everything that is not functional; then is when you reach a true minimal design. And it’s beautiful.
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Connie Myres
May 10, 2011
Great examples! How do you find them?
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- Daniel Suarez
  May 20, 2011
  webcreme, cssmania, css awards, moluv, creattica, the best design, css remix, css leak, awwards, css beauty, and many many more galleries
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Core
May 10, 2011
thanks gisele
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Nanang Gunawan
May 11, 2011
Good design, Simple and elegant…..

thanks for share…..
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Buzz
May 14, 2011
Great collection of minimalist websites… my favourite is Logartis but there are plenty of others that look fantastic, thanks for sharing!
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Brindes
May 15, 2011
Thanks, there are some great minimalist layours here.

Lately i have been looking specially for this type of design for websites since faster sites have gain a nice boost in their rankings in Google.

I could say that minimalist layouts are trending now
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dessign
May 17, 2011
Beautiful examples, Ahrens is probably my favorite one, very professional and sharp looking site, minimal, clean and simple is the way to go.

Marios
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Jonathan Weisberg
May 17, 2011
great examples! Thanks for sharing.
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Daniel Suarez
May 20, 2011
Many of this are really interesting, but what exactly falls under minimalistic? I always though minimalist as something that relies purely on basic shapes, color, type and white space, though I see many sites here that use shadows, gradients, etc.
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