23 Fantastic Examples of Illustrated Elements in Web Design
Illustration and hand drawn elements can give a lot personality to a layout, specially if used properly. From small illustrated icons to complete illustrated backgrounds, or hand drawn typography, it’s always a nice approach to insert illustrations in your design. Today we gathered a few examples of websites using illustrated elements to inspire you.
Second Story
Trent Walton
More than Twenty
Postable
Duct Tape & Glitter
Glass Coat Photo Booth
G’Nosh
Belong
Kolonien
SoleilNoir
The Penthouse Project
Hannah
talent garden
Luhse Tea
We Are Royale
AppGear
Sir John a Day
inTacto 10 Years
Rexona for Men – Super Hero
Muffi
AFAR 25
ConvergeSE
Monsieur Cassius
CSS Design Awards
The Best Designs
Awwwards
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21 comments
Jenn Staz
March 19, 2012I adore hand drawn elements, and that was actually the driving factor for my new personal blog design. Thanks for sharing!
Callie Ferman
March 19, 2012Some great design inspiration- I love how it makes the sites so much more personalized and less of that “stock image city” look that you tend to see on a lot of business sites.
EntheosWeb
March 19, 2012Thanks for sharing, love the creativity! I’m curious to know where you find these great designs
Web Design Wolverhampton
March 19, 2012These look great. I always find that illustrations on a website add a much friendlier tone.
The Vector Box
March 19, 2012Great collection, I love the G’Nosh & Rexona for Men websites.
Afar25
March 19, 2012Great collection, thanks for the mention.
I think there was a mistake with Monsieur Cassius site, a screenshot of my site is displayed instead.
Juvencio
March 19, 2012Thanks for sharing!!
aledesign.it
March 19, 2012A good selection with more inspirations…”We Are Royale” and “Super Hero” are my preferite.
Christina Cruz
March 19, 2012These were really inspiring especially “We Are Royale” and “Duct Tape And Glitter”. Thanks for sharing these with everyone.
Kenneth
March 19, 2012Thanks for the round-up! What can I say? Talented people only can create that sort of things. I don’t even think once can learn to do it. You need to be born like that.
Design Turnpike
March 19, 2012Wow, what a great collection! Hand illustration is a skill I envy. Awesome works.
Web Design
March 19, 2012Great stuff. Website shouldnt be complex, keep them clean and simple!
RJN
March 19, 2012Some really amazing designs here, i wish i had a fraction of that talent!
Mitch Ballard
March 20, 2012Nice collection, thanks for sharing the creative illustrated elements here. Great post and hats off to Gisele.
Creation web
March 20, 2012Nice selection. An example that proves illustration and websites go well together !
Fastdesign
March 21, 2012Brilliant collection. I love how these designers make illustrations and websites come out beautifully.
Theo
March 21, 2012Some fantastic websites in this collection!
Nikhil
March 24, 2012This collection is just fantastic.
Thanks for great share!
Laura
March 26, 2012Stunning collection, lovely post to flick through on a Monday morning! Thanks
Bart Verbeeren
April 2, 2012Some really great examples. Thanks for sharing. We launched something similar last week: http://www.essentielevetten.be/
Damian Smith
April 5, 2012Love illustrated work, something I think I need to improve upon!
The G’Nosh website is beautiful, I got bored of the whole birdseye view wed design styles but that one just made me like them again!!