40 Fresh Examples of Minimal Web Design
There is nothing more inspiring than a clean and minimal website. A design with few elements representing something. The saying “less is more”, even though somewhat cliche, couldn’t be more true. We already published here a A Showcase of Clean White Web Designs and a list with 60 Minimal and Super Clean Web Designs to Inspire You. Since minimal sites are always around and they are actually pretty trendy right now, we decided to gather a new list. Enjoy.
Works of WeLoveNoise
Isotope 221
Stuart Hobday
hauser lacour
Hinterland Studio
byLouise
Artypapers
New Simplicity
37signals
BX22
here design
Alexander Munk
Omnia
Our Beautiful Game
Julia Schaefers
propeople
Design Woop
The Art of Metropia
Lonely Tweet
Indie Labs
CouchCreative
Vitor Lourenço
The NewMode
eCoverSuiteElite
tictoc
Wearable Print
Grow Interactive
Rodrigo Corral
Staydecent
VonChurch
Carsten Prenger
Rhythm
Rob Treutel
The Divisions
Design Influence
thinkmore
Royale
David Gill
Mankind Creative
Mainstudio
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24 comments
AndrewNoNumbers
October 11, 2010I think the criteria for minimalist was a bit loose on a few of them, but great list as always. I like to call my blog http://ndrw.me minimalist as well though it’s not quite as refreshing as most of the designs here.
Brandon
October 11, 2010Always love looking at examples of minimalist designs. I think I like the Lonely Tweet site the best for some reason.
Manuela
October 11, 2010Great collection! Thank you!
Marco Barbosa
October 11, 2010Can’t get enough of minimalism!
Thanks!
Gonzo the Great
October 11, 2010Hi Gisele,
Thanks for a sweet collection of fresh minimal websites, .. just loved it.
Sunday, a week ago, I published my minimal portfolio, http://www.gonzographic.com. Very fresh indeed ;-P
If you’ve liked my portfolio, please vote for me on webfontawards.com
Thanks for sharing, cheers & ciao ..
Jon Gamble
October 11, 2010I too have put out a minimalist site as my companies site. I have always liked minimalist design, and I love to see what people do with the whitespace in their designs.
You can check out my minimalist site at http://www.JonGambleLLC.com. Tell me what you think!
Mitchell Allen
October 11, 2010Gisele, I LOVE Lonely Tweet. Yah. That’s the one.
Thanks for sharing this collection of websites.
I really really need to update my theme, which has been around since before WP was launched!
Cheers,
Mitch
Bryan
October 11, 2010Excellent collection! Thanks for sharing.
Bryan
October 11, 2010Really love minimal web design. Very simple yet looks so good. Thanks for the share! Gret collection.
Web Designing
October 12, 2010Very good designs, Design must have the capability to attract the visitors and compile the industry and theme of the topic..
greenwoodwebmarketing
October 12, 2010Great Designs! You have such wonderful collection!
Sachin
October 12, 2010never seen such a breathtaking collection..thanks a ton
Scott
October 12, 2010Using large chunky text always has a good effect in these kind of websites. I really like “Grow Interactive” and think “Hauser Lacour” is very clever for using a diagonal line as it does. Great collection and thanks for sharing.
Jeff Wagner
October 12, 2010Nice collection, I too love when a site uses minimal graphics and content and still rocks. Good to see so many examples that pull it off.
ddeja
October 12, 2010For me the best of the list are:
nice nice nice
1. Omnia project – incredible
2. Vitor Lourenço site
3. thnwmd.com – nicely done but i thought it’s going to be based on just that left navi element.
4. And the fourth place goes to carsten prenger – for me the font is a little bit off.
As for the rest. Well it’s hard to say that website based only on slideshow gallery is an minimalistic site and that’s mostly the case in this list.
Cheers.
Mike
October 13, 2010Excellent collection! Loving them!
Felix
October 14, 2010Great list! It is good to see fresh examples. My favs are the “We love Noise” and the “here design” sites.
Joseph
October 14, 2010Thanks for collating these. I like to think that minimalism is more than as aesthetic genre – it’s also simple and ‘practical’; this collection illustrates that idea very well.
I’ve just rebooted my own site, http://www.simpledesign.com.au, and the ideas here were a great source of inspiration.
Cheers!
djavupixel
October 15, 2010That’s what I call some fresh content
Good work on searching for new stuff!
I like the concept of hauser lacour. It is something different.
Thanks!
Jeff Woods
November 2, 2010Great examples of minimalist work. Its funny how how simple an clean design often takes the longest!
We just launched our site as well, http://www.woodscreative.ca and after seeing this would like to go back and strip it down some more.
Thanks for the post!
Mark Olsen
November 4, 2010Nice work putting these together! As they say ‘less is more’ but it’s always a lot more difficult to come up with a very simple and useful design then a cluttered one.
Fredrik
February 15, 2011Minimalistic design rock! Simple = Good!
Myo Kyaw Htun
April 21, 2011Nice collection list … please considering take a look at my site as well. THe link is on my name. Not in my comment.
Martin Fabricius
November 19, 2011Hi guys
If you are going to write about minimalistic portfolios again, I would like to suggest my new portfolio http://www.martin-fabricius.dk
Please, have a look