Just for fun, I thought we could share our favourite designers. I love the work of :

 

Peter Jaworowvski and http://www.arsthanea.com/

Saizen media http://www.saizenmedia.com/nightwishsite/ (Flash, but great)

Ale Prado, but his site is in development at the moment http://www.aleprado.com/

and recently Mike / Creative mints http://www.creativemints.com/

I think http://www.hutchhouse.com/ are quite good. Preferred their old site but the new is quite nice.

Im a huge fan of Orman Clark. I also quite like focus labs portfolio section

This is one of my favourite design companies. Love their site, Big fan of minimalist design

 

http://www.builtbybuffalo.com/

Sergio Ordonez is someone who's work I've always been blown away by - http://www.sosfactory.com/mascot-design.php

 

Owaikeo is amazing too - http://www.owaikeo.com/portfolio/

I've always been a fan of this guy: Mick Moolhuijsen.

He changes his portfolio quite a lot but his design works are great!

Orman Clark and Buffalo are fantastic! I also love Sergio Ordonez's work. Especially his monkey designs!

 

There are so many amazing people out there. I have a huge list but just to ween it down to a handful and in no particular order; http://happycog.com/ (can't ignore Zeldman!), http://www.wearemaersk.com/, a lot of stuff by http://elliotjaystocks.com/ and one of my favourites http://dentsunetwork.com/#/projects. We have a friend who works for them (they're a Japanese advertising agency) and I'm always blown away by their work. Even if they still use a lot of Flash

Just found this http://mengto.com/

Instantly becomes one of my favourites and his blog is a good read.

I've always been a massive fan of Joshua Davis cos he's constantly testing the boundaries of art and code. Check out his presentation at this years W3Conf on youtube where he explains his process. Oh, and New Zealand illustrator Glenn Jones' sharp wit always makes smile.

Another designer for the collection

http://dribbble.com/ultrafruit

http://www.ufo.lt/

Love their illustrations.

If illustration is allowed I'll throw my girlfriend's in here - http://katyhalford.co.uk/ - she's not a web designer though!

@Teodora - Nice use of colours for both. I used to drive the car from the UFO site

 

@MMMedia - your girlfriends work is great! Love her style

 

Another one to add to the list is Andres Alfonso http://afar25.com/

Ars Thanea definitely

Yeah, Ars Thanea are just great!