Best Examples of Watercolor in Web Design
Last week we posted a big collection of photoshop brushes for creating watercolor and other painted effects. These brushes will make your life easier when applying a watercolor style to a design, but you probably want to start by getting some inspiration and seeing how this particular style should be done. In this post I’m showing you, what I believe, are the best examples of using watercolor in web design.
Big Cartel
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Happy Cog Studios
Web Designer Wall
Electric Pulp
Crush + Lovely
Agami Creative
Viget Inspire
Matt Dempsey
Corvus Design Studio
Biola Undergrad
form + function
Billy Hughes at War
Boompa
22 comments
Jani
July 13, 2009Interesting collection
I don’t see WebDesignerWall as a site of WaterColors because it is all made up of florals?
But other sites are great.
jZine
July 13, 2009I think these are some of the most beautiful examples of webdesign out there. IMHO
Michael Castilla
July 13, 2009Nice post! Another awesome site is http://darkmotion.com/
Tom
July 13, 2009dont forget my friend chris with his masterpiece of creativity over @ farfromfearless.com
youll love it
Pierre Lemieux
July 13, 2009Also worth mentioning is the great work of Kevin Cornell on alistapart.com
Aaron
July 13, 2009Great collection. Thanks for the include. (electric pulp)
monica
July 13, 2009I love the Form and function website. Flawless.
Selvam
July 14, 2009Nice collection
theodin
July 14, 2009got to love the watercolors, if its not over used, it can look stunning! WDW still makes my jaw drop!
Digital Agency
July 14, 2009very cool. Our designers are loving this style, we expect it to be a huge trend
adelaide website design
July 14, 2009The watercolors look amazingly grungy online. Strange because in real life watercolors look more serene.
Great post.
Ramsay
Michael Saganowski
July 15, 2009Good post – I would also add FireFox website. Very waterish.. 8)
Derek Tan
July 15, 2009great selection, very inspirational to me!
julie
July 15, 2009another example of watercolor used in web design is http://www.shannonsano.com
Brilliant Lady
July 15, 2009The great thing about watercolor in design is that it has an organic feel. It’s a refreshing break from the standard ‘wired’ glossy look. Thanks publishing. love the corvus site.
camille
July 16, 2009Really lovely collection! The use of watercolor is something is still fairly uncommon (from what I have seen anyway). What a wonderful way to soften the inherently tech-y nature of a website! Thanks for sharing these examples…inspiring indeed!
De-Light
July 16, 2009Looking for a watercolor designer, if you’re in go to contact us page at our site.
webmasterdubai
July 17, 2009nice watercolor collection. good job.
Adam
July 17, 2009Another site with watercolor:
http://www.turchiaviaggi.it
Michael Thomas
July 20, 2009Very nice selection of water colour websites. How long does it take you to find such a collection? I have used this effect in posters but not a website yet as I have not had the right cliental to do it for yet.
Brent
July 22, 2009Yes! BIOLA University! (alumni)
Elena
August 4, 2009Watercolor and hand-lettered for quite a while now:
http://www.frenchtoastgirl.com
http://www.frenchtoastgirl.com/weblog/blogger.shtml
(And btw, I love your lists!)