October 2011: Top 10 Websites for Designers

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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 this month’s Top 10 Websites for Designers below. Plus, click here to submit a website that you think should be included.

Luke Bott
Luke Bott is a talented design and illustrator living in Wichita, KS, who seems to have a particular affinity for robots.

Ping Zhu
London-based illustrator Ping Zhu has a wonderful vintage style and a specific talent for drawing animals with personality. Be sure to check out the Fauna category.

Design Womb
Designer Nicole LaFave not only creates beautiful print projects from her studio in San Francisco, she also creates a line of amazing designer shoes.

Kam Diba
Kam Diba is creative director of NBC Universal responsible for the digital media produced for advertising & promotion of the network and ancillary businesses. His portfolio is chock full of promos for popular NBC shows.

Monoambiente
Monoambiente is a clothing brand based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The creators are young advertisers, designers and stylists who produce their own campaigns, which are strange and engaging.

Tatsuro Kiuchi Illustration
Tokyo-based illustrator Tatsura Kiuchi started out as a biology major but pursued his true passion at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He now illustrates children’s books, as well as doing work for editorial and advertising clients.

Cristain Jucan
Cristina Jucan is a full bred Romanian from the heart of Transylvania (totally not a vampire), with a hint of southern American flavor and a design degree from Mississippi State University burning a whole in her pocket.

Design Envy
For designers, by designers. A different curator each week, a new envy-inducing entry each day.

Bob Dinetz Design
The simplicity of this portfolio site belies the interesting, thoughtful design work that it showcases.

Warehouse Twenty One
Warehouse Twenty One is a marketing firm located in a renovated warehouse in Cheyenne, WY, that promotes its services with a great sense of humor.


Click here to submit a website that you think should be included in the Top 10 Websites for Designers.


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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6 Responses to October 2011: Top 10 Websites for Designers

  1. Pingback: KamDiba.com Featured on HOW’s Top 10 Websites for Designers | Kam Diba

  2. mceolsen says:

    What – no SwissMiss?

  3. I actually was not impressed. I thought the work of the individual people are nice, but their websites seemed out dated and way behind.

    I guess I was expecting to be blown away from what the title said. Again nice work of individual projects, but their website not are boring.

  4. Yeah I’m not impressed by these designs. I think that’s what Wild Eagle was trying to say too. They are all just bland, uninspiring and it’s not like many of those haven’t been done before, although I did like the Warehouse 21 site though! Nifty!

  5. hgc says:

    Thanks for this. Really useful for our creative guys here in our studio (www.highergroundcreative.co.uk)

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