Category: Product site

EXTRA

Italian furniture brand Extra, founded and directed by designer Henry Timi, has recently launched its website redesign. The beautifully executed website design is the result of Italian visual communicator Demetrio Mancini‘s work.

The Extra website features some wonderful minimal pieces by a design collective including Claudio La Viola, Federico Delrosso and Mario Nanni.

Mancini explains the design process behind Extra:

The biggest challenge working on the Extra website was to be coherent with the extremely minimalist philosophy of the brand founder Henry Timi. He asked for a very simple black and white website with a clear and consistently visible navigation interface.

Some of the finer details, such as the thumbnails of the products over the list of alphanumeric codes, or the inner zoom in the catalogue pages, added some dynamism and functionality to a rational and rigid structure.

With such pure and blissfully simple information architecture and style, the works of these furniture designers have been showcased superbly.

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Simple Software

Fellow-minimalist Uri Fridman (who we know and love from his blog Minimal) launched a new site for his Simple Software: simple programs that do one thing, and do that in the simples way possible.

Such a minimalist approach to software deserves a minimalist website to support its proposition, and that’s what Fridman indeed created: a no-frills text-based design, listing the offer in simple typography.