60 Excellent Examples of Illustration in Web Design
The great thing about web design is that we have an enormous range of styles, techniques and ideas to implement when designing. You can go from Super Clean and Minimal Layouts to Colorful Layouts, and you can use Huge Typography or Hand Drawn elements – as long as you keep your style and give your website your own personality. As illustration is somewhere in between those options and is something that can be used to give your website a very unique touch, we decided to gather 60 excellent examples of illustration in web design. There should be plenty here to inspire you.
a modern eden
veerle’s blog
the waiting room
doublenaut
the color cure
Pixel Thread
Hull Digital Question Time
The Digital Invaders
forrst
Siringa
fedena
Fator Criativo
xhtmlCafe
Aran Down
Alex Buga
brizk
slavikdizajn
Daniel Marques
David Hellmann
MailChimp
iwit.nl
meomi
Navigant Consulting
The Alamo Basement
Oslo Internasjonale Filmfestival
the ship and the sea
Eighty Two Design
Matt Hamm
UGSMAG
Digiti
Robbin Waldemar
Fully Illustrated
Maggie Taylor
made by guerrilla
Gowalla
Silverback
Green Ideas
tree house editing
Healthy Harvest
shout
ten24media
branded07
Banjax
What Is Your Problem
ok.cogaoke
Ali Felski
jacob lee
Douglas Menezes
Drupalcon – DC
Andy Ward
Carol Rivello
Surfeited
twenty2designs
Chirag Solanki
Phizz
titofelix
Starbucks Coffee At Home
FIMEL
Getting Crazy
Corvus Design Studio
About the Author
Gisele Muller is someone that recently discovered a new career online. A person that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. An eternal geek wannabe, tech fan and a communication lover! Current location: San Bruno, CA – USA. Twitter: @gismullr
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24 comments
Waheed Akhtar
May 31, 2010Excellent examples. There are some amazing designer portfolio websites included in this list.
Oles
May 31, 2010Nice examples. Thanks
Eko Setiawan
May 31, 2010Nice collections, very creative design.
Thanks…
Claudia
May 31, 2010Really stunning websites; I like to see this kind of creativity, spices up my imagination!
Thanks a lot =)
Sebastian
May 31, 2010Really nice collection. Want to add our website: http://www.nordisch-arts.de
greets from hamburg, germany
Auré
May 31, 2010What an amazing selection…
Thanks for sharing
Lindsey
May 31, 2010Awesome list! Thanks for featuring our website.
Julien
May 31, 2010Nice examples, wonder why mine isn’t between them
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Jase Clamp
May 31, 2010Beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration. I needed that.
Vincent Ammirato
June 1, 2010Awesome list for inspiration. I even signed up for Forrst!
Two more that I think exemplify cutting edge:
http://www.agencynet.com
http://www.blitzagency.com
I also think our site (alterimaging.com} is pretty darn rockin’ too.
dandy
June 1, 2010I wish i could get my name i that list too, well somehow
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Thanks.
Ary Wibowo
June 2, 2010wow awesome… thanks
Verndale
June 2, 2010Many many great and inspirational examples! Thanks for sharing! We have some too! Check out our portfolio: http://www.verndale.com
terina
June 3, 2010STUNNING!
Sgacheru
June 6, 2010Great collection! I especially loved the color cure.
Peter Nudo
June 6, 2010I have been inspired by so many of these to create my portfolio site.
I love shout and meomi, always have been favorites of mine.
Berenika
June 7, 2010Great collection, I love the use of illustrations in webdesign
Verndale
June 7, 2010Really cool examples! Now would you say there are different types of web design? I only ask this after reading this post called, “Design is not art.” http://bit.ly/bsynUo
Ilie Ciorba
June 8, 2010Good list, I have something similar on my blog.
Gareth Watson
June 15, 2010An awesome list of websites featuring cartoon illustrations. It’s something that I have always enjoy, kind of a combination of old tech (illustration) meets new tech (web).
I am such a fan of the concept that I even employed it on my own website. http://gdpwatson.com/ – Although that only went live a short while ago!
Indianapolis Web Design
September 19, 2010Beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration. I needed that.
roycesalford
November 16, 2010I love how illustrations in web design somehow brings back that human element to the internet.Goes to show that sometimes it is the imperfections that make a design perfect.Nice Collection Thanx for the sharing this.
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krutika
January 19, 2012Awesome Designs!!! Thanks for sharing..
Graphismeo
May 13, 2012Hi,
Very nice post! I love illustrations in web design, that’s why I wrote a whole article about this on my blog : http://www.graphismeo.com/ressources/illustration-webdesign-ressources-tutoriaux
Have a nice day
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