A photographic investigation into art and its audience, a daring anti-design portfolio and a colorful impact report receive top honors
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newsline / December 8, 2025 / Readymag, the design tool for creating websites, has announced the winners of the Websites of the year 2025 award. 25 websites were shortlisted and one winner was selected in each of three categories: Jury Choice, Community Choice and Readymag Choice.
Websites of the Year is an annual award given to outstanding designs created with Readymag. The award recognizes projects for visual expressiveness, design innovation, content and narrative. The mission of Websites of the Year is to orient designers in the evolving landscape of web design, spotlight standout examples, and celebrate community achievements.
The jury’s choice went to People look at art or art looks at people by Anton Repponen, a New York-based designer whose 20-year career includes work for clients such as Nintendo, Balenciaga, and cultural institutions such as The Met and M+ Museum. Tea Uglow of the Dark Swan Institute noted that the site elegantly displays the content, while Marcos Rodrigues of Porto Rocha gave a “special shout-out to the typeface,” saying that “it does a fantastic job of shaping the overall archival/analog tone.”
The Readymag team selected the portfolio of NYC-based designer Jo Ilijima and noted its originality and immediate impact. As Alexander Moskovskiy, head of design at Readymag, put it: “We loved the website creator’s approach: a mix of bold colors and shapes with precise, precise typography. The contrast works beautifully.” The team emphasized that the winning portfolio is a standalone work of art with its own style, idea and logic.
The impact report of the Dutch coffee brand Wakuli won the public vote. It received almost 15% of all votes and became the community’s favorite.
Speaking about this year’s award, CEO of Readymag Diana Kasay said: “Now in its 12th edition, Websites of the Year is our way of putting creators at the center. We hold ourselves and the participants to high standards, while keeping the practical nature of web design in mind. This balance helps bring out the avant-garde in a way that remains accessible within a broader design context.”
Alexander Moskovskiy also highlighted broader patterns in this year’s entries, including a growing mix of brutalist, convention-breaking imagery with the clean, understated aesthetic of contemporary product design. “We see very clean, nuanced typography and animation combined with raw, bold, expressive colors and shapes,” he said. He added that designers continue to experiment with unconventional storytelling formats, and that movement remains a powerful tool for both narrative and visual impact.
The winning and nominated projects are available on the prices website.
Readymag is a design tool for creating websites. Since its founding in 2012, the company has remained independent and bootstrapped, with a strong focus on visual expressiveness. Readymag is used by designers, studios, media outlets, brands and anyone who needs flexible, visually rich websites without coding. More information at readymag.com.
SOURCE: Readymag Inc
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