60+ Amazing Examples Of Illustrative Web Designs With Overview
There is a parallel world where it’s possible to find fantastic and talented friends, breathtaking landscapes and incredible adventures. This place is our fantasy, the main fuel for amazing web and graphic works.
You can find wonderful websites all over the web in which is obvious the designer estrous and the fine symbiosis between technical skills and creativity. A soft mix of proper characters, lively color and clean web design can makes an explosive result.
In this showcase we will show you 60+ incredible websites that use wonderful and colorful illustrations to create an expressive and communicative design.
Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. The Definition of design is more critical in modern terms as now design is a way of communication; and, more specifically, Web design is a well define platform for content. There is no “Good” and “Bad” in design. It always define as a “Different”.
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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!!)
01. Capstone Kids
02. MS-Kucharovice
03. Arun Pattnaik
04. Hpnotiq
05. Norbauer
06. Open Atrium
07. MpluZ
08. Branded 07
09. Old Loft
10. Fatburg
11. Adit Shukla
12. Marchand de Trucs
13. Goglamping
14. Brad Colbow
15. Hutchhouse
16. Great-Design
17. Tori’s Eye
18. Project Vino
19. Dark Motion
20. Zinaz
21. PixelPR
22. Bazar Solidale
23. Story Pixel
24. How Host
25. Wingstranger.com
26. Nybble Tech
27. I’m a Rock Star Ninja
28. Go Summer Project
29. Mojotic
30. Zoologicka
31. The Great Bearded Reef
32. DivVoted
33. Kinder-Aktuell
34. Redefine.us
35. WeDoMarkup
36. Stoodeo
37. Malene Hald
38. Octonauts
39. Dean Oakley
40. Iwit
41. Luova
42. Mister-Aero
43. Krystal Beisick
44. Francesco Mugnai
45. Francesco Mugnai
46. RapidxHTML
47. Deborah Cavenaugh
48. Brian Handley Design
49. WP Coder
50. Stop Child Labour – Africa Tour
51. Answer Jam
52. Krolikov
53. Twither
54. The Alamo Basement
55. We Are Not Freelancer
56. Orman Clark
57. iPersonal Assistant
58. Design19
59. FishingCactus
60. Hey Indy
61. No Code Store
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
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Amazing!
wow, i loved these designs. They are awesome!!!
Loved the design titled Humor…very funny
Thank you for including one of my tutorials.
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We’ve done an illustrator-based website design too, based off of an African-style to doing it too. If you come from East Africa, you’ll notice the same types of drawing style in children’s school books.
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this all are very amazing design themes, i love rapidxml very much
WOW, cool designs you’ve collected.
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Beautyfull Designer Portfolios and Collection. Thank you!
I love this Designs. Thank you for sharing them.
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Really nice list, quite a compilation you’ve set together!
I couldn’t see any pics in Fx…. Had to use IE
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Nice list…
http://fatburgr.com/ is cute and useful! Thanks.
Some of those are ok, but most of them look like someone slapped some clip art on top of a WordPress theme.
wow!! it’s so fantastic..
will give me some inspirations
they are awesome,thank you
This has got to be one of the best collections of illustrative web designs. Definitely bookmark worthy stuff.
Good work Piervincenzo Madeo.
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There are quite a lot more illustrative websites over at siteInspire…
http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/illustrative
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Maybe one or two but definitely not 60 “amazing” designs.
Hi,cool
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Absolutely Awesome! Fantastic collection.
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It’s refreshing to see so many inspirational design. Thanks for the roundup!
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Deborah Cavenaugh’s design is way over the top. It’s hard to recognize where the background ends and the posts begin. There is no clear distinction in hierarchy. It’s a muddy mess.
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they all look the same.
good post….
amazing designs
I have to be honest, Im not a fan of illustrative web design. I feel that better suited for print. However, these are great works and definitely deserve the exposure!
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Thanks in knowledge
very great idea thanks to share ,Very useful icon sets, tweeted and saved on Delicious.
Great post, some sweet illustrations in this bunch. The fatburgr site is cool, but not sure if “fun” illustrations should be used for a serious topic.
ok :=)
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Great design, no doubt about it.
Cool illustrations! I drool at looking at them!