Linkin Park, another long-time favorite band of mine, rolled out a really cool landing page with their most recent album where users can use their cursor to uncover endless layers of colorful designs with a unique simulated gel-like visual texture. It's a neat effect, but it doesn't proclude the important content on the website; a tidy little header bar lets you easily navigate to essentials like tour dates and merchandise.
True to its nature as a hip artsy magazine, The New Yorker has a very chic site. It uses different types of content blocks to present different media of reporting, such as written articles, photographs, podcasts and more. This allows the site to engage the greatest possible number of users and keep them reading, watching, listening and so on.
Another band site, this one greeting users with a music video clip playing on loop, the band logo imposed on top. This site is mostly typical Shopify-powered fare, but the side-scrolling bars that match the pace of the user's scroll are a creative and effective way of posting headers above each section. I like the font, which consists of demanding blocky characters to make sure you can't miss what you're looking at.
Soda cans are a point of interest for me in regards to product design, so I decided to check out Pepsi's website to see what it's got. I like the use of animation, as well as the fact there is a prominent accessibility option to turn the animations off. The use of the Pepsi colors, red and blue, is frequent and well placed, and the font used is consistent with the product's design, making for an overall sense of brand synergy.
I couldn't help but put The Equinox's site. It's not bragging; I had little to no part in creating the design itself. Still, I do feel it's a clean and effective design to deliver the most important content first. My biggest problem with it is the awkward location of our search bar, something I would love to fix if I knew how.