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I’ve always liked minimalism! Little or no use of images and a strong focus on the typography and on the content instead of graphical elements always did the trick for me. Of course I love a well-crafted website that makes good use of various graphical elements like characters/avatars, buttons, icons and others.

But, when I started thinking of redesigning SpyreStudios I thought I’d go with a very minimalist approach so that the focus really is on the articles/posts and the comments. I dropped the usual sidebar and also reduced the overall width to 700px. Hey, you can’t blame the guy for trying something different, right? :)

Here are some websites I really liked that inspired the redesign of SpyreStudios (in no particular order):

Self Conclusion

Design Snips

Five Simple Steps

Feel Wire

Distrop

Shaun Inman

Huge Type

Jason Santa Maria

Indie Labs

Emptees

Rockable Press

Matt Bango

Vitor Lourenco

Mr. Tweet

Scroll Magazine

Your Turn To Talk

So, you can now go ahead and bombard me with your favorite minimalist designs :)
Which ones are you favorites, and why?