50 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design

December 28, 2009 - 24 Comments
Design Style Series, Inspiration, Web Design

Using illustration in web design gives the designer the opportunity to convey there own personal and unique style, and be able to say "this site is mine, and look what I can do". Very few web design styles give an artist this opportunity.

What makes the examples below stand out are not just the beautiful illustrative art work nor the carefully crafted web designs, it is the balance between the two that distinguishes them from the rest. They all manage to be unique in there own right, by highlighting the illustration with carefully positioned content. And when this is a achieved successfully, the effect is amazing and memorable.

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Edgar Leijs
28 Dec, 2009

‘One’ Word: ‘What a wisely chosen’ collection!!!

Great! :)

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Design Informer
28 Dec, 2009

You forgot about Design Informer? J/K

Seriously though, this is one great collection. The ones you included in this post are incredible.

I tried to choose a favorite but I can’t, as I really like most of them. Great source of inspiration!

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kuswanto
28 Dec, 2009

Huge list, I made same topic, but only 20 websites listed :-(

Thanks for the inspiration, there are sure lots of creative illustrations.

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Andreas
28 Dec, 2009

Great collection. Have a look at http://mooti.de or http://monstadesign.de

Anyway, i’d say my favorite is The Pixel Blog.

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Guildford
29 Dec, 2009

great list. a great source of inspiration.

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Samoo
29 Dec, 2009

Love ViXML background. I also did a little writeup on it: http://web-patterns.net/backgrounds/vixml-background-illustration/

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samdman
29 Dec, 2009

They all look cool! Some of them I even did not have ever think of.

Great job!

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Inside the Webb
29 Dec, 2009

I gave this a bookmark to Delicious, really awesome collection of designs and the site looks slick. Thanks again!

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chris
29 Dec, 2009

Wow, great!
I think Nick La’s is my best favorite :)

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CSS Gallery
31 Dec, 2009

Wow… Amazing collection :)

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Joe Payton
2 Jan, 2010

I currently working on a revamp of my personal site along the lines of the listed site. thanks for the inspiration!

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Moosh Massacre
5 Jan, 2010

tnx for sharing

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Casino Lemonade
15 Jan, 2010

We have our own illustration on Casino Lemonade. You can check and give your feedback.

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