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Illustrated Web Designs Part 4

gusdwi — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:49:34 +0000

Adding visual elements to your website design can often make the difference between a good and a great site. While illustrations can often take a lot of time and talent to produce, the result is often a stunning website design that can really make an impact with your readers.

The following showcase includes some examples of brilliantly illustrated web designs to help inspire you for your next project.

31. Arbel Designs

A very cool one page portfolio site. Click around on the navigation here to see all of the various levels of the design.

32. Katherine Designs

Who doesn’t love a site with robots? This site sports a pastel color scheme and lots of little robot illustrations.

33. Cool Brush Design

This sit sports a very detailed graphic of a castle and ocean scene that works with Flash.

34. Bird Boxx

A large illustration on this website easily translates that sites name to help make it more memorable.

35. Ready Made Design

A nice color scheme and illustrations make this website very easy on the eyes.

36. Olive Crush

These guys use a simple illustration and textures to help add some personality to the site design.

37. Chirp

Designed entirely with the hand drawn style in mind, Chirp has an artistic style that is very much its own.

38. Dedoce

This underwater scene has a bit of a grunge feel to it that helps keep it from looking like another vector illustrated website.

39. PSD to WP

Here is a one page site that uses a powerful background image to build its sites personality and brand off of.

40. Morphix

This site mixes a creative blog layout with nice illustration to create a blog design that is very untypical, but very memorable.

Illustrated Web Designs Part 3

gusdwi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:09:33 +0000

The following showcase includes some examples of brilliantly illustrated web designs to help inspire you for your next project.

21. Indofolio

This is a must see side scrolling site. Aside from the amazing artwork, it also has a nice transition from page to page to helps added to the feel of the site.

22. Pralinen Schachtel

I like that the illustration on this site has made sure to create some depth to the picture. This is something many vector illustrations lack.

23. Branded 07

This site is full of outstanding illustration. Be sure to check out the footer area on this one.

24. Vindem Teren

I’m not really sure what this site does, but based on the illustration it looks to be some sort of real estate based site. Goes to show you that images can speak volumes.

25. Digital Impact Outdoors

The illustration in this website design does an excellent job at conveying the overall message of the website and adding to its value.

26. Store Envy

Here is a site that mixes very modern user interface style with some bright and colorful illustration work.

27. Los Colores Olvidados

If Tim Burton were a web designer, I would think that his website would look a little something like this.

28. Andy Adventure

One would expect that animated games would have a bold and artistic website. While this isn’t the most clever design, it is certainly big and bold.

29. The Pixel

Simple animation, outstanding artwork, and clever layout; this website has it all.

30. Synch Media

A combination of unique colors, layout, and illustration make this website very unique and different.
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Illustrated Web Designs Part 2

gusdwi — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:27:53 +0000

Adding visual elements to your website design can often make the difference between a good and a great site. While illustrations can often take a lot of time and talent to produce, the result is often a stunning website design that can really make an impact with your readers.

The following showcase includes some examples of brilliantly illustrated web designs to help inspire you for your next project.

11. Atomic Cartoons

This is just an amazing website. You MUST check this site out and click around a bit.

12. Kidd 81

Here is another site with a style that stands out from the crowd and one that the designer has used to brand them self very well.

13. Grepit

This site offers a very slick and clever looking diagram type illustration to convey what it is they do.

14. Bimbi Sicuramente

I have no idea what this site is about, but I like that the vector illustration is full of texture and offers a bit of depth to it.

15. Abduction Lamp

This site even comes in 3D! Well, not really, but it’s still a clever aspect of the design.

16. Outlaw Design Blog

It is all about the little details in this site. The gun in holster on the menu, random bullet holes, and other touches help make this site a bit different.

17. Blossoms Village

While not the greatest looking website on this list, it just goes to show that some bold illustration work can go a long way in making your design look even better.

18. Attack of the Web

This is one of those websites that just make you wonder where they got the idea from. This is a clever and funny one page layout.

19. Bet Your Followers

I don’t really get the point of this website, but it shows very creative use of some excellent stock illustration work.

20. Camellie

Creating a clever and artistic website is easy when you have as much talent as Camellie does. If only we were all this talented.
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Brilliantly Illustrated Web Designs

gusdwi — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:25:05 +0000

The following showcase includes some examples of brilliantly illustrated web designs to help inspire you for your next project.

1. Toris Eye

This is a very cool site that you have to see to really appreciate. It offers simple motion, creative ideas, nice colors and oh so much more.

2. Carreras Con Futoro

This site might be “drawn” and “painted” with Photoshop brushes, but it still has that hand drawn style to it. Great for those of you who don’t have the traditional artistic skill set.

3. Moshi Monster

As one would epect, this online kids game is full of animation, cute little monsters, and plenty of bright colors.

4. Black Moon Development

Bring in a more traditional illustration look offers a unique style in today’s web design.

5. Open Atrium

Here we get a nice mixture of typical clean web design mixed in with some bright and bold illustration work.

6. Tech Adventure DC

Again, any time you can add some hand drawn elements into your design you are sure to create something outstanding.

7. Blogsville

A basic website with a simple illustration to help conceptualize the conference name.

8. Piipe Online

A nice use of bold colors, creative layout and interesting use of patterns make this site fun to look at.

9. HD Live 09

Any time you can add some real hand drawn work to a design you are sure to create something very different from anything else out there.

10. Somos La Peralimonera

I always like it when illustrated sites like this have multiple layers to them. Adding outer space or underground layers is a cool idea.
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