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Minimalism

Restraint as a strategy. Monochrome palettes, generous space, and nothing left on the page that does not earn it.

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The Kononenko Architectural Bureau homepage: a full-bleed render of a grey perforated-metal facade, with the studio name set bottom left, the word Bureau in serif

Awards

Kononenko sets its square metres in a display serif

Cipher's homepage: around sixteen film stills overlapping in a loose cluster on a near-black background

Awards

Cipher's monochrome portfolio is built on the letter C

Likova's homepage: the wordmark in a white block cut into a night render of the business centre

Awards

Likova's office finder looks like the rest of the site

Revelatio's work index: a plain white headline on near-black above two project cards, a magenta Medno gradient and the photographic Obliant tile

Awards

Revelatio opens every page with one plain sentence

The Obys about page: one long statement set in the studio's own sans, black type on white at a single weight.

Websites

Obys runs its studio website on one house typeface

Nothin's homepage: the studio name set as a giant black wordmark on white, filling the screen

Awards

Nothin' builds its studio site around one giant word

The Bauhaus Clock homepage: a large analog clock face under the headline Turn waiting into watching, with a Buy now button pinned top right

Inspiration

Bauhaus Clock nails the single-product landing page

The Prødux homepage: a large PRØDUX wordmark and the line 'You feel the brand before it speaks' in white on near-black.

Awards

The monochrome studio site that saves colour for the work

nk.studio anniversary homepage: a large white serif statement, Before we inspired others we were inspired, over a dark teal glow

Awards

nk.studio sets its 20-year archive in serif and teal light

No Art homepage: a full-bleed, desaturated video still of a huge festival crowd, with the hand-scrawled No Art logo tagged across the middle

Awards

No Art hangs its rave photos on a white gallery wall

'kin's work page: a full-bleed office photo with the project name Flint Glass Works in orange over a ghosted list of other project names

Websites

'kin turns its portfolio website into a hover-swap gallery

Cecilie Bahnsen homepage: a model lies on an orange carpet in a pink dress covered in embroidered bows, with the letterspaced serif wordmark above

Inspiration

Cecilie Bahnsen builds editorial fashion e-commerce

The Made With GSAP home page: a black wordmark, a lime green Join button, and a dark ring of effect thumbnails under the headline Unique JS effects made with care.

Awards

Made With GSAP makes the whole site its own demo reel

The Estudio Niksen homepage: a scanned photo spread of two models in red shorts against a yellow wall, with the handwritten wordmark centred in the header.

Websites

Estudio Niksen lets you set how dense its e-commerce grid gets

Screenshot of the Estudio Niksen homepage: a scanned magazine spread of two models in red shorts against a pale yellow wall, with a handwritten signature wordmark centred in the header above it

Inspiration

Estudio Niksen keeps a hand in its minimal e-commerce web design

CoffeeTech's home page: the headline Coffee Roasting Reinvented set in large cream type on a near-black background, with an orange Products button in the nav

Awards

The roaster does the art direction on CoffeeTech's site

Teenage Engineering's homepage: a control-panel nav of icons and labels above a black-and-yellow DAILY LIFE OF MR. UPDATE comic hero

Websites

Teenage Engineering's website treats its product catalogue like a control panel

RISK studio home page, a monochrome layout with a running 00:00:00 timecode counter

Awards

The film studio site that keeps a running timecode

Vectr home page: the headline Staffing the World's Critical Systems in large black type on a paper-white background, with a small VECTR wordmark centered above.

Awards

Vectr dresses nuclear staffing in oversized editorial type

Longbow Motors homepage in monochrome, with a large headline reading Be Moved At The Speed Of Lightness over an atmospheric photo of a British electric sports car

Awards

Longbow won awwwards site of the day by designing the way it builds cars