10 beautiful examples of CSS3 design

By Ryan Boudreaux140 December 21, 2011, 11:15 PM PST

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CSS3 Analog Clock

ntCSS3 Analog Clock by Paul Hayes is his quick project and experiment that works in Safari and Google Chrome. Essentially the working analog clock is a series of four images, and using CSS3 to overlay, transform, and transition the hands’ movement, the time is obtained from a short JavaScript.

Snow Flakes

ntSnow Flakes by Natalie Downe utilizes examples of CSS3 animation, text-shadow, transform, and keyframes to create a page of gently falling snow flakes. The snow flakes are called by a short script which controls the number of flakes, how fast they fall, and the duration of the snow fall. The animation is best viewed in Google Chrome.

Matrix Effect

ntMatrix Effect by Girlie Mac embeds a Katakana font with CSS3 keyframes, transform, and animations using webkit prefixes to create this demonstration, again, best viewed in Google Chrome.

Speech Bubbles

ntPure CSS Speech Bubbles by Nicolas Gallagher demonstrates the use of CSS3 backgrounds, linear gradients, border radius, and transform translate to create stunning speech bubbles in a selection of variants.

Embossed Text

ntEmbossed Text Effect by Analog, a company of friends who make websites, uses a subtle 1px CSS3 text-shadow effect for their h2, h3, p, and li text, creating an embossed text effect.

Polaroids

ntPolaroid’s with CSS3 by Zurb is a gallery display using CSS3 transform and rotate to turn images into a set of randomly selected Polaroid pictures.

CSS3 Transitions

ntCSS3 Transitions Gallery by AlexandtheWeb demonstrates CSS3 transitions, transform, rotate, border radius, and masking to create this stunning example.

3D Butterfly

ntCSS3 3D Butterfly by eletriq demonstrates the use of CSS3 perspective, transform-origin, and transform-style to create a 3D butterfly object in flight. Display is available in Safari only.

3D Cube

nt3D geometry with 3D CSS3 transforms by Joe Lambert uses rotateX(deg), rotateY(deg) axis, transitions, and transformVector to create this 3D cube with rotation controls, and is displayed in Safari.

CSS3 Time Machine

ntCSS3 Time Machine by Joe Critchley utilizes CSS3 perspective, transform, and translate to create this image slide show similar to Apple’s Time Machine interface (as displayed in Safari).

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