A Short Overview (Means Boring Stuff!!)

It’s not easy to come up with something very creative. So how can you make sure your design is better than the designs of your competitors? How can you point employer’s attention to your product or services? Here we might be able to help you by presenting this smart showcase. Below there are the collection of illustrated websites designs, but before we take a look around to the main, evident, features to create an illustrative web site. What elements do designers use to create illustrated websites? What kind of colors? What techniques?

Nice Characters

The use of a laughing characters creates a sweet welcome for visitors and it also expresses, or simply introduces, the main mission of the website. Below you can see some examples.

It’s interested also the use of characters from animal world to create a friendly web site brand.

“Microcosm” in a Web Site

Many designers love to show a piece of original (cartoon) mini-world that they create to emphasize the website message. These illustrations are good to finalize the footer or to create an impressive header. But there is also some pretty surprise…

The Right Background

An opportune background in this kind of web site is essential, at least for two main reasons: to give the right context at the illustration and to make a good back-image for the layout elements and so to structure a readable contents. In some cases the illustrative power of the design is in background image.
We can see some solutions in the following image.

Typography

The use of big typography is a frequent trend in modern web design. In many websites of this list (especially when the design is for portfolio, agency and company sites) we’ll notice big font size of design elements to communicate the principal message of the website.

In some other examples of this list there is a “normal” use of typography, but always to make a clear and direct message in a clean web design.

Animations

When some elements of design are “alive”, such as the birds in Tori’s Eye or the airplane in Marjeting Informatico, can be made a direct interaction with the visitor. The animation is often in flash, but a nice use of javascript is a concrete solution to animate your design (in the bottom of the article you can find a list of resources in which there is also some plugins for the animations in web design).

Humor

A spontaneous smile always works.

Examples Of Illustrative Web Designs (Interesting Stuff!!)

Tutorials and Resources on the Web

• 40+ Free Vector Graphics and Photoshop Brushes For Commercial Use
• 10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks
• Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator
• Monster Character Series Part 4
• How to Create an Abstract Vector Design in Illustrator
• Design with Swirls and Flourishes
• How to Create an Illustrative Web Design in Photoshop
• Coding a Clean & Illustrative Web Design from Scratch
• How to Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater in Illustrator
• How to Create a Smokin’ Western Type Treatment in Illustrator
• Draw a Classy 3D Poker Chip in Photoshop
• Design a travel PSD layout with Adobe Photoshop
• How to Create a Large Header with a Simple Western Scene

Other Great Collection of beautiful Illustration in Web Design

• Design Trends: 40 Awesome Illustrative Web Designs
• 40 Excellent Illustrations In Web Designs
• 72 Vector Characters
• 50 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations in Web Design

Find Something Missing?

While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other great resources. Feel free to share it with us.