VANOC commissioned an awesome website for this historic event. Everything from the art to the technology is extremely well done. Here’s quick roundup of the noteworthy stuff.
Great layout, great design: The content organization and navigation is intuitive: find the sport, scores, venue, read the news, etc. It appears cluttered, but it’s got a lot to do! But more fun is the design. Notice the modern lineart used in the large backgrounds (peaking out the right side of the content) and through the header. The sport featured is random on the home page, and sport-specific on the sport portals. This original art is seen all throughout graphics at the venues and in associated advertising. Watch for it on the boards in the hockey and curling highlights we’ll be seeing for some time.
“Please move that box up so the page does not scroll.” The web designer then reaches for his canned “everyone will see this differently…” response. The term above the fold comes from print, where desktop publishers and editors can reliably determine priority placement for best content. The notion holds on the web: the designer needs to make the right impression above the scroll line. The problem is determining that point. And when you play it safe, cater to where you imagine it to be and leave some margin for error, you handcuff your design, and you’ll probably still get it wrong. 
Apparently Gloss is dead. Texture is here to rip up the corners, splash paint around, burn and char everything above the fold, and get iStocked up. 