60 Minimal and Super Clean Web Designs to Inspire You
A clean and minimal web design is an effective way to convey an image of elegance and sophistication. This type of design is all about doing more with less, and making use of plenty of white space to let content and page elements breathe. However, it can be difficult to come up with a solid minimal website, because you can’t rely on “shiny” design elements to make things visually appealing. So if you’ve struggled in the past to tackle this type of web design, we’re here to help. Here’s a showcase of 60 minimal and super clean web designs to inspire you.
Sleepover, San Francisco
Nicholas Cary
70/SF
The Carbon Co-op
Process Journal
Thorsten Van Elten
WorkLifeBalanceCentre
Bernard Tschumi Architects
Effektive
NotJones
alan cook
hellomake.com
caseydunn.net
us (design studio)
Electric Gecko
theanthropologist.net
Ryan Willms
Good Inc.
Mr Toledano
midtone design
hunt studio
designschneider
Where They At
TA
coolandtheguide
Maksimer
fedena
Birch
Simon Heijdens
needswants.com
amillion things to do
haikavanian.com
Sveinn Davíðsson
Jamie Gregory
Daring Fireball
Stories & Novels
Johny Favourite
Antony Gormley
H by Harris
Root
superawesome
precinkt
Patrick Mullen Design
Spiritualized
studiofeed.ca
Masood Kamandy
Emrah Yaman
Design Code
wktokyo.jp
Thirteen.
Oscar Barber
Hot Meteor
Astheria
Berit Somme
pixelbot
made by on
Patrick Monkel
ben hulse design
pixelcraft
Rainfall Daffinson
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May 17, 2010
A wonderful collection of minimalist designs. Well done.
May 17, 2010
Nice and quite fresh showcase….Root looks great.
May 17, 2010
Great list for inspiration, I love minimalist web design…thanks for share.
May 17, 2010
Thanks for this bunch of fresh inspiration. Very nice collection.
May 17, 2010
Waho… really cool selection with Ssome great examples.
I definitely love the “Berit Somme” portfolio…I already knew this website and I think I would never been tired of its fabulous design.
May 17, 2010
One thing about such minimalist designs is that it really allows the content to be focused and shine by itself.
May 17, 2010
Very cool. Electric Gecko and Oscar Barber are beautiful.
May 17, 2010
Nice collection…
May 17, 2010
I noticed the design of ‘WorkLifeBalanceCentre’ is a hard rip-off from http://www.corporateriskwatch.com/index.html. Do you agree?
May 17, 2010
They sure look similar, but I don’t think it is a rip-off… maybe only a coincidence, or same inspiration and style.. not sure!
May 17, 2010
Really do like the simplistic elegance of Mid Tone Design, you and your mouse can’t help but want to click into the site. Which lets face it, is the main challenge to all web sites (user interaction).
May 17, 2010
Hi nice inspiration!
this kind of works
it helps me a lot to create my own new portfolio! http://www.revestido.com.ar
i like the black, grey and white sites movement
thanks
Leandro
May 17, 2010
Real nice, I enjoy the minimalistic approach to web design.
May 17, 2010
The choice of font color for Nicholas Cary’s menu is horrible. Other than that very nice.
May 17, 2010
A really cool collection of minimalistic web designs. Basically it’s all about removing the unnecessary, and slimming down the necessary too.
May 17, 2010
thanx for sharing..
May 17, 2010
Interesting collection. I’m a big fan of minimal designed sites. I believe that the presentation of the content should never overshadow the actual content. Thanks for sharing.
May 17, 2010
I’m a mnmlst at heart. Thanks for the inspiration.
May 17, 2010
Oh minimalism, you are much more than minimally beautiful!
May 17, 2010
Great collection of web designs… This is definitely worth bookmarking and great source of inspiration…Among this Bernard Tschumi Architects is my favourite..
May 17, 2010
Nice collection. Am a big fan of minimal designs. Thanks for sharing.
Hope to see this one on a minimal web design list something. http://www.islandgrouptt.com
May 17, 2010
Always loving to see well designed clean websites. Thanks for the post!
May 17, 2010
Really love the minimalist web design… thanks for share!
May 17, 2010
Thanks for an excellent collection. I bet you’ll like this one – http://www.wearepropeople.com
May 17, 2010
Why can’t all websites be like these? Great collection
May 17, 2010
Great work collection really good job thanks for sharing … keep it up
May 17, 2010
Lovin that work, life, balance theme, should remember that sometime! Great collection, thanks!
May 17, 2010
Nice collection…
May 17, 2010
Love Maksimer, minimal but with a pop of color. Thanks for the inspiration!
May 17, 2010
There is also The Standard Theme
May 18, 2010
Very Neat! Designs have a good look and feel.
May 18, 2010
Great list. Nice to see the various implementations.
My addition, for what it’s worth:
http://julia-art.nl/en/
May 18, 2010
Great, minimalism is always my way.
Check out mine (: – http://yourneeds.tumblr.com
May 18, 2010
woo hoo! i love inspiring clean designs! thanks so much for this.
May 18, 2010
Wonderful list. Clean, clear, and beautiful websites.
May 23, 2010
Great post! Minimal design makes me smile!
May 24, 2010
Hey!
Thanks for including my site!
May 25, 2010
Hi there,
Thanks. That is an awesome collection. I’ve love my designs to be simple, elegant and neat. I hope someday my site would also feature in lists like these.
May 28, 2010
Too many…way way too many pretty, busy sites that confuse, scare away and are like Christmas trees with large deposits of tinsel thrown on using both hands repeatedly. Your site, collection gives one hope. HELLO. Maybe that should be 30% of the opening page, to ease them in rather than deer in the head light arch welder atomic blast harshness approach. Thanks a bunch. Really. Not just being polite here.
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Jun 2, 2010
Lover of minimalism designs ,Awesome collection
Jun 3, 2010
Some great work there, thanks for putting this list together.
Jun 6, 2010
Nice collection.
Another clean design: http://www.vidasencilla.es/
Jun 7, 2010
I pride myself on being a modern web designer and am currently redesigning my own website in a minimal style. Perhaps you could add my site once it’s ready.
Nice article, some average example but some beauties too – I especially like MonkDesign.
Jun 10, 2010
I tried to make a minimalistic page myself, but it isn’t really that easy. Thanks for inspiration.
Jun 15, 2010
Very well put together collection.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Jun 16, 2010
I love minimalist web design, great collection!
Jun 16, 2010
This is an awesome list. Simply beautiful. Thanks.
Aug 14, 2010
Finally I get to see a real list of minimalist cool websites. I’ve been browsing for them for so long just to find plain websites with no graphics and Times New Roman and the alike fonts (the horror!). Thanx for sharing the list!