This week on Friday Focus: designs that use two opposing elements found in nature: fire and water.

This week’s Friday Focus features designs that use smart, stunning slideshow techniques that are sure to inspire you. Take some notes!

This week’s Friday Focus is all about light on dark designs that use subtle, even elegant textures.

This week on Friday Focus: designs adorned with the timeless patterns of scalloping and sheared edges.

This week on Friday Focus: websites whose content are arranged into boxes like those cute bento meals. This time, you must think inside the box!

Showing screenshots of websites on websites isn’t terribly exciting in theory, but let’s see how these designs dealt with it.

We have some interesting uses for arrows in this week’s batch of designs. Let’s see where they take us.

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.

This week’s Friday Focus will tackle websites for a designer’s best friend: icons. Icon sites have been around for the longest time but we’re seeing a lot of sites pushing the envelope in interface innovation, both with their offerings and the website designs they’re found in. The latest trend so far? Websites created for a single icon set—now that’s a great way to promote work.

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.