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.

Illustrative Web Design - Characters

Illustrative Web Design - Characters

Illustrative Web Design - Characters

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

Illustrative Web Design - Characters

Illustrative Web Design - Characters

Illustrative Web Design - Characters

“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…

Illustrative Web Design - Mini World

Illustrative Web Design - Characters

Illustrative Web Design - Mini World

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.

Illustrative Web Design - Background

Illustrative Web Design - Background

Illustrative Web Design - Background

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.

Illustrative Web Design - Typography

Illustrative Web Design - Typography

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).

Illustrative Web Design - Typography

Humor

A spontaneous smile always works.

Illustrative Web Design - Humor

 

Examples Of Illustrative Web Designs (Interesting Stuff!!)

01. Capstone Kids

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02. MS-Kucharovice

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03. Arun Pattnaik

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04. Hpnotiq

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05. Norbauer

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06. Open Atrium

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07. MpluZ

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08. Branded 07

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09. Old Loft

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10. Fatburg

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11. Adit Shukla

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12. Marchand de Trucs

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13. Goglamping

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14. Brad Colbow

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15. Hutchhouse

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16. Great-Design

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17. Tori’s Eye

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18. Project Vino

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19. Dark Motion

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20. Zinaz

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21. PixelPR

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22. Bazar Solidale

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23. Story Pixel

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24. How Host

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25. Wingstranger.com

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26. Nybble Tech

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27. I’m a Rock Star Ninja

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28. Go Summer Project

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29. Mojotic

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30. Zoologicka

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31. The Great Bearded Reef

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32. DivVoted

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33. Kinder-Aktuell

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34. Redefine.us

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35. WeDoMarkup

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36. Stoodeo

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37. Malene Hald

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38. Octonauts

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39. Dean Oakley

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40. Iwit

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41. Luova

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42. Mister-Aero

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43. Krystal Beisick

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44. Francesco Mugnai

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45. Francesco Mugnai

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46. RapidxHTML

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47. Deborah Cavenaugh

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48. Brian Handley Design

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49. WP Coder

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50. Stop Child Labour – Africa Tour

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51. Answer Jam

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52. Krolikov

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53. Twither

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54. The Alamo Basement

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55. We Are Not Freelancer

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56. Orman Clark

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57. iPersonal Assistant

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58. Design19

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59. FishingCactus

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60. Hey Indy

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61. No Code Store

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34 Comments

  1. wow, i loved these designs. They are awesome!!!
    Loved the design titled Humor…very funny

  2. Thank you for including one of my tutorials.

  3. 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.

  4. Yradoooo!!! Very Very Very good

  5. This article has been shared on favSHARE.net.

  6. this all are very amazing design themes, i love rapidxml very much

  7. WOW, cool designs you’ve collected.

  8. Amazing!

  9. Beautyfull Designer Portfolios and Collection. Thank you!

  10. I love this Designs. Thank you for sharing them.

  11. Really nice list, quite a compilation you’ve set together!

    I couldn’t see any pics in Fx…. Had to use IE :(

  12. Nice list…

  13. http://fatburgr.com/ is cute and useful! Thanks.

  14. Some of those are ok, but most of them look like someone slapped some clip art on top of a WordPress theme.

  15. they are awesome,thank you

  16. Thank you for listing my site Piervincenzo. Much appreciated.

  17. wow!! it’s so fantastic..
    will give me some inspirations

  18. This has got to be one of the best collections of illustrative web designs. Definitely bookmark worthy stuff.

    Good work Piervincenzo Madeo.


    Leroy Fernandes

  19. There are quite a lot more illustrative websites over at siteInspire…

    http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/illustrative

  20. Hi,cool

  21. Maybe one or two but definitely not 60 “amazing” designs.

  22. genial

  23. Absolutely Awesome! Fantastic collection.

  24. It’s refreshing to see so many inspirational design. Thanks for the roundup!

  25. 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.

  26. Really cool post!

  27. they all look the same.

  28. good post….

  29. Amazing Dersing Thanks Admin…

  30. The first priority of the site administrator for your comments right know, thank you. Really very good information-sharing gives you.
    Thanks in knowledge

  31. ok :=)
    jjj

  32. Cool illustrations! I drool at looking at them! :)

  33. 10/10 to the designers and 10/10 to the blog manager who have brought up this fantastic collection of web designs. We are really thankful for you to provide us such an inspirational post. Thanks for sharing mate :)

  34. Very interesting to see other points of view and see imagination of other Web design Agency and Freelancer . Great Work

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