I just came across a website today by the name of Design Charts. Apparently, this is where designers are ranked among their peers (or by those who submit their name and portfolio.

I was a bit disappointed at some of the top pics (only because some didn’t have readily available portfolios to view online).

However, I struck inspirational gold with Fluid Design out of Los Angeles.  One of their recent works was of Coupon Chief.  I am extremely familiar with this company because I like to peruse their coupons from time to time so as not to miss any online deals.

Anyway, I remembered Coupon Chief in its beginning days.  The site was drab, plain and the lack of excitement made it hard for me to want to stay on the page (i.e. I got bored fast).  However, this new design is … for lack of better words… cute.  It is cute, clean and appropriate.  I am very impressed.

Some of the companies listed on the designer’s rankings were submitted more than once and made it to the top of the list more than once as well.  I hear often how designers prefer javascript to flash but the flash sites are becoming quite impressive and quite interactive as well!

Another site that I found to be quite impressive and inventive is that of The Turn.  Think “Little Big Planet” meets a flash website!  It’s a pretty neat site and while it lacks in content (i.e. words), it makes up for it in creativity.  It is almost as if this site creator wanted to put this site up “just because he/she could”.  Very inventive.  Very inventive indeed.

I am delving deeper and deeper into the design aspect of websites.  I have found quite a few designers that I admire so don’t be surprised if I feature them on this site!  I love art and a good website!