Six Revisions

design by silnt is just amazing, the way the whole website adjust to whatever screen width is very cool. I have never seen anything like it before.

T-Law

Well done! Great collection, thanks for this inspirational list.

Daniel

Nice collection it’s a shame that you didn’t include my site!

Eric

I love clean and minimalist designs like the Squarespace blog

James

I wrote a similar article a while back which included some of the above but also features several alternatives too: http://www.welcomebrand.co.uk/inspiration/clean-up-your-act-great-uses-of-whitespace/

T. Brian Ware

I love Design by Slint. Excellent site. I also enjoy Area 17. As a side note, check out this artist’s site. It also does a good job of utilizing minimalist constructs while presenting art, which can be rather hard. But it pulls it off AMAZINGLY well! http://www.willbrooksart.com/

Bernat

I’ve seen many showcases but this….this one kicks ass. I’ll keep it as gold!
Thanks!

RD

Lucas Hirata was simple but yet graphical presentation of the portfolio…

Ellen Kimball

They are all exceptional. The only criticism I have is that light/white print on a dark/black background is too hard to read. I usually get around that by selecting the type with Ctrl_A, which puts up a different color combination. Not sure this bothers anyone else. Otherwise, I love minimalism and good, clean design. Seems to be back in fashion now, even in furniture and clothing stores!

Cordially,

Ellen Kimball
Portland, OR

Adi

web-remote.com is another example of minimalism

Ain

Great stuff. Most of it is equally good, couldn’t make a chart out of it.

Toni

http://Search.io has a very clean design. Check it out!

Jake

Really awesome collection, bookmarked to Delicious! Can definitely reference this list later for some design inspiration. :)

StudioDino

Great examples!

tiff

WOW. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am really in awe by how creative people can really be using simple design.

Wim

This is a really nice list, thanks.

I think minimalism in design and user interfaces is definitely the remedy for information overload.

Quicksilver

Awesome compilation right here! I just love the simplicity of things, something all sites should strive towards in their design.

Zoltan

I like how minimalism in web design is a euphemism for interesting typography, there’s some great examples here thanks. Check out http://www.jafc.co.uk for another bold typographic design.

Alex Bignell

These are all beautiful creations, but many are not really minimalist in nature. Minimalism is not just about clean design, it’s about clean design using *very few elements*.

Black and white does not a minimalist website make.

Skyler

No Google homepage?

Larry

anyone else notice all of these are linear designs — barely a curve to be found? Not being a designer myself it just made me curious — is it because of some design principal or is it just easier?

bettleb

Good stuff, not really “minimalism” though, just clean and well done. Too many images and too much text for minimalism.

I like Slint too, but the typos on the calendar hurt: “two thousand and nine”. It’s correctly “two-thousand nine”. Hyphenate and no “and”. The and is for parts past the whole, not the year. Two-thousand nine and eight months. 4 dollars and 53 cents. Two thousand nine is equal to 2018 (2 x 1009). Would you want twenty five-dollar bills, or twenty-five dollar bills? $100 or $25. It makes a difference.

So pedantic of me, I know, but if it’s to be about good design it should be about good grammar and typography too.

Wow, I’m tightly wound, eh?

subcorpus

nice collection …
i like the dark black one the most …

Chris the Photographer from Detroit

I love the glyph on the ‘k’ on number 14. Interesting contrast from the other ones as well as minimalism is taken on by dark colors.

RK

Wow, I love this collection.
Very inspirational and awesome minimalism.

Tim

Those are nice sites, but they’re not very minimal. Simple perhaps.
Here are some blogs that are much more minimal:
http://textism.com/
http://daringfireball.net/

Not Minimalism

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/minimalism.html

I would argue that most if not all of these designs are anything but minimalism. In fact, I don’t think it’s possible to have a functional minimalist web site. Maybe in relation to other sites these sites have “minimal” use of design elements, but not in the artistic definition.

josh wheden

I like the minimalist design at http://www.mactyler.com/builtbymac/ looks pretty slick, although it is unfinished

Maxime Perron Caissy

Great collection, the good use of white space (dark space for dark websites :)) is perfect in most of the websites mentionned above.

I would also add that all the sites listed share another thing in common: GREAT TYPOGRAPHY!

Btw, many of those sites use font replacement techniques to provide a great user experience. I like that!

Thanks Jacob Gube, Thanks sixrevisions.

Television SPy

Klipp Og Lim that was pretty nice.

Kevin Zak

Astheria.com is the blog of Kyle Meyer (editor of Typesites.com), and another great example of minimalism on the web.

James

Websites straight out of my typography class in college. You can always see the difference between a webmaster who is programmer or designer. The programmer’s site works but the design sucks; the designer’s site looks great but doesn’t work.

Russ Murray

Thanks for the compilation. The Snog site is very effective. It quickly and clearly promotes its product…with some personality.

Lanny Heidbreder

I think you have “minimalist design” confused with “good design”. Many, if not MOST, of those examples are a far cry from minimalism.

DMK

I would call these neo-modernist, not minimalist. Minimalism was a specific type of art done by artists such as Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, and Frank Stella. These are simply clean neo-modernist designs.

Daniel Pennypacker

One of my really good friends did co-designed and coded the new Typographic, I was crazy excited when I saw that there, I helped him do the mouseovers :-)

Here’s his site: http://www.chrishamamoto.com/

It’s so nice to everyone called out for all their hard work

Eddie

Minimal to me, for the home page is less than 100 words, 3 basic navigation links, and the only image is the websites logo – just like one of my websites!

It doesn’t need any more detail or clutter.

Ole Martin Kristiansen

Thanks for featuring my portfolio! :-)

Black Sand

Iloved “monty lounge industries” web design,it is cool. Blue themes is my favourite.

Elias Martín

New CSSMania is awesome, too!

Farid Hadi

I’m a big fan of minimalistic design and most of the sites in this showcase are awesome.

Nolan

Have to agree that these might be “good” design, but certainly not “minimalist”. Leaving aside the historical art definition, minimalism to is the elimination of the extraneous. I’d humbly put my site up against these and ask others how many extraneous elements could be removed from theirs vs mine…

Tyler Tate

Some really good examples here, though in my opinion many of them are still too complex to be categorized under the heading of minimalistic.

karol

really great websites!

I can’t even try to choose the best one :)

Jonathan

Thanks for featuring my site!

Chad Engle

These are really awesome sites. I had to go through each of hem and navigate through the entire site haha. I love and hate posts like this because they are so beautiful that I have to see them all personally. Nice job Jacob

Biz

A very good examples of minimalistic approach in we design. Who said that web design must be done in multi-color, flash based application in order to be successful.

Shunichi W

Design by Silnt uses a wordpress theme Grid-A-Licious by Suprb…it’s ok to use a template for here ?

space

personally, I don’t consider most of those minimalistic. Are we redefining minimalism as an art, or just understating it for the medium?

Vu Tran

Although the designs are great, I don’t think it falls under the style of minimalism. You defined minimalism as “a design style that emphasizes simplicity and the removal of superfluous elements in one’s own work” but many of these sites has elements seen on regular websites such as recent blog posts, recent tweets, featured items, and other misc. elements used for SEO purposes or portfolio design. One of the example given also even displays an advertisement.

andinu

hmmm, bit confused about the word ‘minimalist’ in the post’s title. Maybe some nice examples of typography on the interweb but minimalist it’s not.

em

Why most of these websites are black and white websites? Is black and white websites are called “Minimalism”?

Jay

Nice showcase.. but same with some of the commenter, I don’t think some of the website in this showcase falls to minimalist.

Daus

What about mine? :)

Arie

They are well designed, and have a great appearance but I don’t really think that some of them are minimalist.

If those are minimalist, then mine is a minimal minimalist. :)

Media Designer

Yea, I agree – not exactly minimal. But well designed nevertheless.
Daus – you would need more space to be minimal. Don’t look up minimalism in the dictionary, look it up in an art history book. Minimalism isn’t LESS, it’s WAY less!

igor

I like the http://www.oblac.com look, especially since it is for programming and such approach in this domain is rare

Nicole Foster

I absolutely love minimalistic designs: they are always beautiful and to the point. Great examples!

parmana

wow..i like it so much..simple but meaningful

Kamrul

Yes! Minimalism I like it! “The less is more”. I am learning new things here. Thanks.

youssef sarhan

I think the term ‘minimalism’ was misinterpreted by the writer. Regardless there are some very nice websites here.

Chris