As I’ve mentioned before, I surf the web a lot and I’ve got used to surfing a lot of different sites. Every now and then I come across a new web page that, design wise, completely blows my mind. Last night that web page was the homepage of Macquarie Private Wealth.

Macquarie Private Wealth home page

I think their monotonic design, with limited shades of purple, is superbly aesthetic. It strikes me as bold, confident and professional. It’s a brave move, most modern websites use a lot of colour, but they’ve resisted and in my opinion it’s worked.

Perpetual home page

Just compare it to Perpetual’s home page which also uses monotonic images, but with lots of colour elsewhere. I don’t find this page has any where near as much impact.