It’s 5:00pm on Friday afternoon and I’m sitting here daydreaming about being inside this website right now,  "surviving" my family vacation.  Despite it’s fun homepage and flashy intro, it’s really just a blog…which is very interesting to me.  Here are some quick things I’d like to point out that grab my attention:

  • I like the white text over the slightly darker shade box on the photo.  This is hard to pull off on the web, but  they did a nice job. 

  • I’m really digging the white and teal script font.

  • The brown gradient is a nice balance to the somewhat busy header. 

  • This is totally just a "extra", but I’m in love with the plane that flies off the page.  Too cute…

If you’re planning a family vacation and for some reason don’t think you’ll survive it - oooorrrr, you just want to take a look around their unique website, visit http://familyvacationsurvivalguide.com/

Sometimes I get so sick and tired at looking at all of the over-designed, over-colored, and quite frankly,  over-whelming sites that populate the web today.  To come across this website for The American Institute of Architects was extremely refreshing.  It’s an example of the perfect mix between a "cut and paste" style and modern simplicity. I love the hard edges mixed with highlights and reflections.

I also admire how the space seems to appear so open and free of boundries…especially since it represents nothing but structures and walls!

To see for yourself what I’m talking about visit www.favoritearchitecture.org.