40 Brilliantly Illustrated Web Designs
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 40 examples of brilliantly illustrated web designs to help inspire you for your next project.
1. Morphix
This site mixes a creative blog layout with nice illustration to create a blog design that is very untypical, but very memorable.
2. PSD to WP
Here is a one page site that uses a powerful background image to build its sites personality and brand off of.
3. Dedoce
This underwater scene has a bit of a grunge feel to it that helps keep it from looking like another vector illustrated website.
4. Chirp
Designed entirely with the hand drawn style in mind, Chirp has an artistic style that is very much its own.
5. Olive Crush
These guys use a simple illustration and textures to help add some personality to the site design.
6. Ready Made Designs
A nice color scheme and illustrations make this website very easy on the eyes.
7. Bird Boxx
A large illustration on this website easily translates that sites name to help make it more memorable.
8. Cool Brush Design
This sit sports a very detailed graphic of a castle and ocean scene that works with Flash.
9. Katherine Designs
Who doesn’t love a site with robots? This site sports a pastel color scheme and lots of little robot illustrations.
10. 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.
11. Synch Media
A combination of unique colors, layout, and illustration make this website very unique and different.
12. The Pixel
Simple animation, outstanding artwork, and clever layout; this website has it all.
13. 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.
14. Los Colores Olvidados
If Tim Burton were a web designer, I would think that his website would look a little something like this.
15. Store Envy
Here is a site that mixes very modern user interface style with some bright and colorful illustration work.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Branded 07
This site is full of outstanding illustration. Be sure to check out the footer area on this one.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. Abduction Lamp
This site even comes in 3D! Well, not really, but it’s still a clever aspect of the design.
27. 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.
28. GREPIT
This site offers a very slick and clever looking diagram type illustration to convey what it is they do.
29. 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.
30. Atomic Cartoons
This is just an amazing website and probably my favorite on this list. You MUST check this site out and click around a bit.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. Piipe Online
A nice use of bold colors, creative layout and interesting use of patterns make this site fun to look at.
34. Blogsville
A basic website with a simple illustration to help conceptualize the conference name.
35. Tech Adventure DC
Again, any time you can add some hand drawn elements into your design you are sure to create something outstanding.
36. Open Atrium
Here we get a nice mixture of typical clean web design mixed in with some bright and bold illustration work.
37. Black Moon Development
Bring in a more traditional illustration look offers a unique style in today’s web design.
38. Moshi Monster
As one would epect, this online kids game is full of animation, cute little monsters, and plenty of bright colors.
39. Carreras Con Futuro
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.
40. 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.
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Great post! really talented designers in this beautiful collection. thanks
I appreciate creativity and originality. They come from strenuous – and for me – sustained effort. There was a lot of strain and sustaining in the creation of these designs.
Great collection
Great collection and inspiration
Some of these are so clever and playful.
I see a lot of interface designs like these on the web that have little or nothing to do with the content or context of their site, but many of the examples above make a perfect fit for their niche.
Mcluhan said once famously state “the medium is the message” and these sites live up to it.
Thanks for another great list, Envato.
lol sorry for the quote fail
only liked 3 of them… some of those pages dont even deserve to be on this list…
Excelente recopilación, son webs muy creativas, particularmente me encanta “Los colores olvidados”, es un sitio que me gusto hace ya tiempo y verlo ahora en este post de psdtuts me alegro mucho, Gracias envato!!!!
The Pixel and Toris Eye ‘re top! Playful and vital!
thanks posting
Some nice examples in an awfully written article :\
thanks for posting, i love it.
Great complication, thanks for the list.
Toris Eye is awesome.
Haha, I like how you snuck your own in there. Don’t get me wrong, it fits well, but it is just funny to see it in there.
This is all very inspirational. Great post.
Whoa, all hail cool brush design! hahaha..these are such inspiring designs..
Shabalicious!
Very cool designs indeed! Particularly like “Cool Brush Design” – very intricate and detailed. One of those background designs was created by me too so it is awesome to see it in the wild! Thanks for the inspiration.
really great post. love these!
Don’t get me wrong, I do like a lot of the websites you listed, but instead of talking about *what* is on the page (which we can already see) I would personally be more interested to hear *why* you think it works. Someone commented previously that they only liked 3 of the websites, and perhaps with a bit more information as to why you liked the ones you chose, we’d be able to better appreciate them all :-) Just my two cents.
Website number 27 talk about children and safety
Thanks for the compilation
Hey thanks for adding my Ready Made Designs site to the list. I’ve got my first vector tutorial coming up on Vector tuts soon – please show some love! :)
Great list! bookmarked it :)
Check out Speedyspaces.com. It’s an illustrated site design as well.
Some excellent work here, thanks for sharing.
15 and 29 have some interesting elements, but they are what I call a headache. The eye roves around looking for a good resting place, but it’s hard with so many competing elements and colors and so little sense to the layout.
10, 14, 20 and 21 are sublime in their simplicity.
18, 25, and 32 feel like they are from one of those cut-and-paste theme-packs, right down to type choices. There’s nothing wrong with this, but a designer’s page should feel unique and not overly-familiar.
Some very nice work mixed in with some work that I cannot believe was by designers who had a choice… there is a saying: the cobbler’s feet go unshod.
Great collection! A real burst of creativity! very inspiring :)
Beatuiful…
Fired Earth Music is another good one:
http://www.firedearthmusic.com/
flash web siteleri thanks :)
Can’t believe you didn’t have StoryPixel there, or was this a newer list or sites?
wow some nice work in there thanks for that
One of most inspiring things is when someone turns that peace of good looking material and turns it into beautifull and working web :) Stunning!
Mine is 3D, I don’t illustrate for now unfortunatelly :)
amazing
Beautiful sites! Thanks for sharing.
greeeat examples
Great collection. Very interesting!
Good post. ’nuff said.
wow, what an amazing set of site.
It’s picture so easy drawing. But this simplicity be a pleasure to the eye :)
Great Collection of Web Designs ! I really enjoy visiting the sites with beautiful Cartoon Designs !
WOW! This list is amazing, so many great websites.
The quality of illustration linked with excellent use of flash / jquery elevates these sites above so many others. Have a look at the new Gorillaz website its a pretty cool looking site also.
Don’t tell the boss but Ive just wasted an hour of my day checking these out, great post!
Really cool set, very inspiring… I’m such a big fan of illustrations, can I add Nick La’s http://www.ndesign-studio.com/ to this list, thanks for sharing.
very cool :)
Number 23 comes from Attack of the Show duh
Honored to be a part of this list :)
Toris Eye is BRILLIANT!!!!!!!
YOU FORGOT MINE! :)
Seriously, you really found some great stuff out there! I’m in love with Katherine’s little robots! :)
Awesome. No other word for it.
Awesome stuff. I found one more interesting site http://www.peter-und-vlad.com thought you might like this addition.
Great compilation. Thanks for inspiring. Keep it going.
Thankyou guys for Displaying our Website: http://www.blossomsvillage.com
Really honored to be a part of this list.
Check also 5pm website (the header) for some nice animated illustration – http://www.5pmweb.com