I've recently got back from Paris and am still enjoying everything french at the moment and was delighted to stumble across this delightful site for La Crème.

We've been discussing convention in interface design a lot recently here at Brown & White, and though I feel convention is a good thing for usability, it can certainly hinder creativity when all you want to do just be let loose on something different. You know where you are with a top & left nav, but as soon as that all changes you end up feeling like you're stuck in the middle of nowhere with a broken sat nav. Today I've been looking at the new website by Grip Limited.

At first glance, the site is very impactful with some lovely typography, images and illustrations but the shear amount of content gave me a bit of headache, so much content I didn't know what to look at first, not so much in terms of copy but images and videos everywhere. The navigation isn't apparent, but once I invested the time to play with it and actually read the site it really paid off and the unconventional layout, huge amount of content and navigation is an inspiration, it's not perfect by any means but it made me realise websites can be interactive and fun again! I know full well that convention will rule over creativity, because let's face it, a website is there to make you money... but it's great to see there are those out there that will just go for it.

What a lovely website I found on Site Inspire, from Salt Films,has a real 1950's throwback feeling, feels very Saul Bass inspired.

Brown & Whitehave just launched a new website for the UK based rock band The Pineapple Thief.The band are anticipating the imminent release of their new album 'Someone Here is Missing', and to help promote it has a big bold shiny new website. The interesting thing about the build of this site is the whole thing was built on the wordpress platform which we will be exploring more on future projects. The artwork on the site was designed by the legendary Storm Thorgerson who is famous for his sleeve design for bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.

Check out the new site.

I'm loving the new Rankin Livesite, lovely minimalist design with great use of flash video.

I'm so pleased as I've been getting rather a lot of coverage recently for a few sites I've designed on various css galleries and blogs even winning some awards! Here's just a few of the featured links:

Moluv
- Featured Site Award Winners for Zaum & Brown and Sick City Club: The freshest web designs come from the creators of the world's best-looking web sites.

Smashing Magazine
- 30 Fresh and Inspirational Portfolios With A Twist

The Best Designs
- Zaum & Brown featured.

CSS Mania
- Zaum & Brown gets voted as a 'favourite'.

Design Shack
- Zaum & Brown gets featured.

Make Better Websites
- Zaum & Brown featured.

abduzeedo.com
- Zaum & Brown featured under Web Design: Awesome Magazine Style Sites

Konigi
- Zaum & Brown and Sick City Club featured.

Design You Trust
- Zaum & Brown website & flyer design, Rich Brown Portfolio and Sick City Club featured.

There's been many other featured sites too including Creattica, Spyrestudios, Design Bombs, Pattern Taps, CSS Creme, Light on Dark, Design Flavr, Net Vibes, Best CSS Gallery, Design Fridge, CSS Fresh Blend, CSS Wow, CSS Perk, We Love CSS, CSS Daddy and many many more.

This is such a lovely website, I found it on designyoutrust.com,the Movie title stills collection,a collection of screen shots of movie title stills from classic and recent feature films and trailers, designed by Dutch designer Christian Annyas.

I love the new Carsonified website, lovely illustrations, bold colour and strong typography