Alex Dukal's portfolio site is very pretty. The navigation is a simple bar across the top with a decent typeface and a very simple rollover state that becomes a selected state. The navigation labels are clear, and they lead you to different sections of his site– home, portfolio, blog, about, and contact. There is also a navigation system at the bottom, which, given the fact that you never really need to scroll to see the content, is a little unnecessary. The hierarchy is designed to get people to view work, and then view what Dukal is up to, which makes sense. There aren't really many levels to the site and the navigation is present throughout, unless you travel to the blog, which then just links you to Dukal's blogger. The selected state tells you where you are at all times, and you can always get back home (the blogger account, of course, links you there). The site most certainly does not have deep architecture. With the exception of the portfolio section, the architecture is totally flat. The typography is minimal, which is good, because when it's used, it's not terribly good. It's fine on the front page, normal pretty headers, the news section with good typographic hierarchy (bold and large for more important, etcetera, as per the other sites), but in the about section, the type is very flat, and a little crowded, even though there isn't much of it. The grid stays pretty similar from page to page, except on the main section of the portfolio. Most of the pages are on an open sketchbook spread, nicely tied into Dukal's career as an illustrator. It means that the focal point is always the art that is displayed on the spread. The place that this changes is in the portfolio section, where instead of one spread, you see many spreads with all the pictures. As the drawings and art are the main point of the site (Dukal is, after all, an illustrator), the sketchbook imagery is pretty great. The colors are mostly restricted to the artwork, with the exception of a small red selected state. The main part of the page is white with a little bit of texture in the background that saves it from being boring. The objective of the site is to showcase Dukal's art, and I think it achieves that well. The illustrations don't need to be any bigger than they are, and the site is pretty minimal, which is fine. I would change it so that the blog is not an external link and actually is on the page. The site does let you subscribe to RSS feeds for the site news, blog posts, flickr posts, and the portfolio updates. That's probably the most useful part. You can't search for anything, but you don't really need to.