DESIGN
AWARDS
CSS Crème has showcased the best of web design since 2007, one of the original galleries that defined design inspiration online. A feature here is not a vanity badge. A link from CSS Crème carries authority a newer gallery cannot, plus the prestige of an OG name and an audience that decodes.
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The nominees
Cycle 01 · 20 entries · voting opens soon| # | Entry | Visit |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Mr.Day mrday.it | Visit ↗ |
| 02 | Pranksters.com pranksters.com | Visit ↗ |
| 03 | KB Cafe kbcafe.com | Visit ↗ |
| 04 | SEOAIO seoaio.ai | Visit ↗ |
| 05 | StockTools.ai stocktools.ai | Visit ↗ |
| 06 | ThumbCrafted thumbcrafted.com | Visit ↗ |
| 07 | Pitch pitch.com | Visit ↗ |
| 08 | Arc arc.net | Visit ↗ |
| 09 | Lynn Fisher lynnandtonic.com | Visit ↗ |
| 10 | Rauno Freiberg rauno.me | Visit ↗ |
| 11 | Paco Coursey paco.me | Visit ↗ |
| 12 | Brittany Chiang brittanychiang.com | Visit ↗ |
| 13 | Clerk clerk.com | Visit ↗ |
| 14 | Cursor cursor.com | Visit ↗ |
| 15 | Superhuman superhuman.com | Visit ↗ |
| 16 | Raycast raycast.com | Visit ↗ |
If you win, here is how to use it
A badge nobody sees is a badge that does nothing, so this is the part most awards leave you to guess at.
- Put the badge on the site itself, in the footer. It links back here, which is the whole mechanism: the link is the credit.
- Post it and tag us. We repost winners, and a post that tags us reaches people looking for exactly the kind of work you just did.
- Add it to your own case study. Editorial selection is worth more in a pitch than a public vote count, and you can say so.
- Send it to the client. Independent recognition of work you shipped for someone else tends to travel further than anything you say about it yourself.
How the awards work
- 01Submit a site
Anyone can submit a beautiful site, their own or one they admire. We index standouts ourselves, too.
- 02Nominees go up
Each cycle's nominees land on the showcase, fully decode-able, so the work speaks for itself.
- 03The community votes
Readers vote for the designs that deserve recognition. Voting opens with member accounts, coming soon.
- 04A winner is crowned
Each month we name a winner and runners-up, and email the winner their embeddable badge.
Why a feature here matters
Authority that compounds
An aged, DR-73 domain with 2,000+ referring domains. A feature passes real SEO equity a brand-new directory cannot offer, because authority like this takes nearly two decades to build.
The original showcase
Back when the CSS gallery defined how designers found inspiration, this was one of the names that mattered. That heritage still carries weight across the design community.
An audience that decodes
CSS Crème readers do not just scroll. Every featured site opens into our decode workbench, where they pull its palette, measure its spacing and study the build.
The winner's badge
Winners get an embeddable badge for their own site. It links straight back to CSS Crème: a clean backlink from a high-authority design domain, and a mark of recognition visitors trust. Drop in two lines of HTML and you are done.
Think a site belongs here?
Submit it, yours or one you admire. The best work on the web deserves to be seen, studied and credited.
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