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We’re already into the fourth month of the year, and this week we’re featuring designs that revolve around that number.

Welcome to the last Friday Focus of the month! This week we’re featuring sites employing blocks of color as a dominant part of their designs. Who says we need to use gradients in everything we do? See how it’s done.

This week’s featured designs business card websites, some of them looking literally like cards containing contact information of their owners. That means very minimal layouts but still all compelling experiences.

Time again for some fresh icons and fonts. This week you’ll find listed here five different icons; hand drawn, social,, for the cloud, android and credit cards. A couple of them are vector only which gives you more control over the size and color. For the fonts choice this week we are going grunge. Since [...]

This week on Friday Focus, we’re looking at sites that revolve around iconized representations of their content.

It’s time again for a fresh batch of popular and lesser known icons. If you regularly create a lot of websites, you can’t have enough icons in your resource folder. My favorite sets are always those that are minimalist and contain off beat icons that are not web related. On this list my preference goes [...]

I came across a selection of icons and fonts that are not extremely popular yet. These icons and fonts are of super-b quality. Picto Foundry for example is optimized for the retina display on iPhone 4 and for use on the iPad. There is also a commercial selection available. Discons and Minicons are excellent minimalist [...]

Last week I mentioned a site that uses a shelf as a nice metaphor for holding content, so let’s look at several more in this week’s Friday Focus.

Minimalistic design never goes out of style. The design trends used in a design do come and go but minimalistic is timeless. A good example of a popular design trend currently is the dark background with noise, it can be used in all sorts of design and eventually gets out of style. When you have [...]

Where sidebars are not an afterthought, and even steal the show. Happy Friday Focus!

This week on Friday Focus: it’s backgrounds with repeating patterns, a well-loved technique that doesn’t go out of style.