Httpster features web designs that hit different. Minimalism to the max. Typography with teeth. A less-is-more brutalist bent. No fluff, just hand-picked, pure, uncut website inspiration.
Love, Dom x
Httpster is 13 years old. That’s ancient for a website.
Back in 2012 I shared a studio with friends who were also designers. We would email interesting sites to each other but lose track of them. So I built a website. Back then the web was a wild west. It took nine months to build a website in those days and once gestation was complete we celebrated for days, smoked cigars, all the normal launch stuff. It was wonderful.
Dominic Whittle (that’s me) founded, curates, designs, and meticulously hand-codes Httpster. In addition I wrote the theme tune, sing the theme tune, and write these words.
Tom Fitzgerald co-curates, suggested the name Httpster, and led curation on and off for big chunks of the past decade.
Jessica Cruickshank hand-lettered the now-deprecated logotype that adorned this website from 2017 to 2025 — you can see it here.
Massive appreciation and thanks also to James Rakich who helped build a previous version and supported the project during the eight years we ran our digital studio Weekends together.
I still don’t know. I just sort of mumble “hipster” and then change the subject to my favourite beard oil, keto food, and alternate life choices. Vaccinate your kids, for fuck’s sake.
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