June 2011: Top 10 Websites for Designers

Categories: Best Design Websites & Great Sites for Designers, Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers.

Each month, HOW editors peruse hundreds of websites to find the best of the best—the Top 10 Websites for Designers. In reviewing these websites, the editors are looking for exceptional design as well as functionality. Check out June’s Top 10 Websites for Designers. Plus, click here to submit a website that you think should be included.

http://1sixty.com
1sixty Design
Web designer Mike Finch shows interesting process sketches as well as finished sites in his portfolio.

http://www.cinderbloc.com
CINDERBLOC CREATIVE
CINDERBLOC is a Toronto-based design firm with a collection of high-quality work including logos, websites and packaging.

http://www.trueblooddigdeeper.com
Dig Deeper
Designed by Los Angeles-based B-Reel, this site promotes HBO’s True Blood Season 3 DVD, and is meant to be explored, revealing 60 hidden clues.

http://www.thisisdisplay.org
Display
Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera.

http://www.foundrycollective.com
Foundry Collective
Foundry Collective is a creative agency based in Oklahoma City and the collaborative effort of Paul Wilkes and Scott Hill.

http://invitationtoanassassination.com/
Invitation to an Assassination
Designer Evan Stremke,’s poster series examines how seemingly routine and casual occurrences can quickly become extraordinary events with a profound global impact the moment a powerful figure, whether it be a world leader or pop culture icon, is assassinated.

http://cargocollective.com/jburwellmixon
Jamie Mixon Design
Mississippi State University graphic design professor Jamie Burwell Mixon’s personal site shows off her illustrative design style.

http://kurppahosk.com
Kurppa Hosk
Check out modern design and branding from Swedish firm Kurppa Hosk.

http://www.orangeyouglad.com
OrangeYouGlad
OrangeYouGlad is a multi-disciplinary design studio in Brooklyn, NY, with a cute identity and some smart design work.

http://www.theofficeofoptimism.com
The Office of Optimism
A design practice and discipline by designer/art director Ray O’Meara, THE OFFICE OF OPTIMISM combines contemporary and traditional ideas of craftsmanship, simplicity and balance.

About Megan Lane Patrick

Megan Lane Patrick joined the HOW magazine team in 1999. As Content Director, she’s responsible for the editorial strategy for HOW magazine and books, as well as the HOW website and events. She’s best known for her ability to find cool things online, which she happily shares as on the HOW blog. Away from the office, she enjoys looking for Mid-Century Modern furniture bargains and collecting tiny chairs, natural history specimens and a certain vintage paint-by-numbers kitten.

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