This week on Friday Focus: designs that reveal the face behind the portfolio, in an illustrated way.

Happy October and Friday Focus! This week we’re looking at designs that incorporate illustrations you see in old books, which give a quirky yet nostalgic effect.

Some of the most interesting interactions I’ve seen done on websites utilize the one page format. Is it because there are fewer pages, fewer elements that should be easier to manipulate? Enjoy these one page wonders on this week’s Friday Focus.

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

This week on Friday Focus: a bunch of sites that use rocketships in their designs. Unfortunately not all of them take the metaphor as far as one would like, but carry interesting designs nonetheless. Ready of take off?

This week on Friday Focus: websites that mimic a typical designer’s workspace, beverage, gadgets, litter, and all.

This week on Friday Focus: illustrations that appear front and center in these websites, because we want them big, bright, and beautiful.

I’m seeing a lot of sites whose color palette consists almost exclusively of light grayish, brownish hues. Sounds boring? No such thing for a smart designer.

This week on Friday Focus: website designs that use strong lines to guide the eye in navigating around them.

This week on Friday Focus: lovely scenery and similar eyecandy painted with a virtual brush.

This week on Friday Focus: designs that are dressed in fine typography and details.

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