Subtlety is the name of the game this week on Friday Focus. We’re featuring designs with light hues and textures for a relaxing, elegant feel overall.

This week on Friday Focus: websites that are split right in the middle! A case of design schizophrenia? Let’s find out.

This week on Friday Focus: these folded, boxy 3D-looking designs pose an interesting challenge to the designer in creating perspective and breaking out of boundaries. See how these websites did it!

At one point in our internet lives, we learned to avoid typing in all caps, because it meant we were yelling. At another point, we became attachmented to typing in lowercase, because it looked and felt cool. We see a lot of designs going lowercase in many portions of text, but nowadays, going uppercase is is all the rage. These designs seem to pull that off quite well.

Who’s in the mood for some red designs this week? Let’s start the show!

Welcome to the first Friday Focus of the year and the new decade! Here are some fantastically designed websites that should inspire you to be more daring and adventurous than ever starting right now. Ready?

Here’s another interesting look that’s being used in websites lately: blueprints. See how they’re translated into this week’s featured websites on Friday Focus.

This week, I’ve come across a lot of sites with sunbursts, a specific type of lighting that’s popular with not just the Web 2.0 look anymore. You decide if they’re crucial to the design or not.

This week on Friday Focus: websites adorned with colorful, abstract flourishes that give movement and energy to the designs.

We love our fonts around these parts, so here’s another batch for this week’s Friday Focus featuring excellent typography, and nothing but.

Another dose of great sites with great illustrations that carry the design. Happy Friday the 13th Focus!

This week on Friday Focus: another roundup of sites that play the transparency card very well.