50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs

November 18, 2009 - 46 Comments
Design Style Series, Inspiration, Web Design

It is wrong to define the magazine style in web design as magazine style (does that make sense?). It should have, perhaps, been called newspaper or tabloid styled, it does have that look and feel. To define it, the magazine style within web design are traditionally web sites that are content heavy, by content I mean text and not images, that display there content in blocks or columns of headings with a small excerpt that leads to the full article.

Unlike other web design styles that can use larger images to compliment the design, Magazine is limited to being designed within the parameters that the content (namely, the text and the occasional thumbnail) dictates, and that is were the problem lies. How do you design a web site that is purely text and make it visual eye candy?

Carrying on with our Web Design Styles Series, today we are looking at successfully designed and impressive Magazine style web sites.

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Paulo
18 Nov, 2009

An excellent collection, thank you SB. I’ve bookmarked and shall return for further inspiration later :)

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Callum Chapman
18 Nov, 2009

Impressive stuff! I love Dollar Dreadful!

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Oreana
18 Nov, 2009

Good list! I would also add theglobeandmail.com :)

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Manuela
18 Nov, 2009

Very very nice selection…I’ll write on it in my site too :)

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esranull
18 Nov, 2009

very nice an excellent collection

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Andrew
18 Nov, 2009

Great List i would also add http://www.readconvention.com

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Fenson
18 Nov, 2009

Great examples. Would do good for inspiration later.

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Web Design Sheffield
18 Nov, 2009

Great list, some very good sites here, Bookmarked for later!

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Luis
18 Nov, 2009

You should take a look at argentinian El Diario Clarin (http://www.clarin.com/). Their design must be some 3 or 4 years old now and is still very good.

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honour chick
18 Nov, 2009

great designs… thxs 4 sharing this collection ;)

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Smashing Buzz
18 Nov, 2009

excellent listings.

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NewSugar
19 Nov, 2009

Sweet! Cheers for the ad!!

^_^

PS. A sneak peak of NewSugar Issue 8! … http://is.gd/4UgzB

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Peter
19 Nov, 2009

it’s German, but one of my favourite websites we made;): http://bernd-troeger.de/

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Henry Jones
19 Nov, 2009

Thanks for including the newly redesigned Web Design Ledger.

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Web 2.0
19 Nov, 2009

Awesome collection… great work!

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Christos Chiotis
19 Nov, 2009

Stunning collection! So inspiring!
Thank you for gather these sites up, for us!

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Heller
19 Nov, 2009

What about http://www.kremlin.ru ?

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The FlyDuo
19 Nov, 2009

Great list! I would also add http://dalyfe.com – an urban lifestyle & culture magazine!

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Dhruba
19 Nov, 2009

http://www.meronepalma.com

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NewBloggerTemplates
19 Nov, 2009

list of news sites with a very interesting design and I really like this site because is inspiring me to make something new..

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PelFusion
20 Nov, 2009

i really like magazine styled web designs…nice compilation

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Waheed Akhtar
20 Nov, 2009

Awesome list. Thanks for sharing

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Alex Neagu
20 Nov, 2009

CNN theme is the best. Arthemia is good enought (I use it on my blog)

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Cathy Lemp
2 Dec, 2009

Many thanks for including the Global AIDS Alliance website in your listing. Our designers were Blue State Digital!

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Jonathan Anderson
5 Dec, 2009

Hey, thanks for the mention! Since we’re focused on user experience, we hear a lot of very strong opinions about whether our site offers a good UX. It’s definitely hard to balance a focus on the content with the need for the site to be visually engaging.

Thanks!
-Jonathan Anderson
Managing Editor
UX Magazine (uxmag.com)

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hoW mUCh
26 Jan, 2010

Nice post man! I like especially the Dollar Dreadful

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