40 Kick-Ass Personal Blog Designs

It has almost been a year while since we last published a round-up of our favorite personal blog designs, making this post well overdue. And what a difference a year makes! Different design techniques, new and refreshing ideas and with the further support for CSS3 properties, designers have have been able to push their personal blog designs to even higher levels.

Having said that and putting all of the marvelous blog designs we have in this article aside and based on our previous showcases, it does seem that the art of the personal blog is diminishing. Bare in mind we are not talking about personal portfolios, we are strictly talking about personal blog designs.
Maybe with the feature rich services offered by Facebook, Twitter, Posterous, Tumblr and even WordPress.com, and with portfolio services like Carbonmade, Deviantart and Behance the need for a personalized blog design is no longer a necessity. We do sincerely hope this is not the case.

Anyway, in this article you will find 40 Kick-Ass personal blog designs for your web design inspiration.

Design Made in Germany

Design Made in Germany

Look at That!

Look at That!

Squaregirl

Squaregirl

Salvator

Salvator

Grain & Gram – The New Gentleman's Journal

Grain & Gram - The New Gentleman's Journal

Andrew Greig

Andrew Greig

The Import

The Import

BlissfullyAware

BlissfullyAware

Christoph Zillgens

Christoph Zillgens

Design or Die

Design or Die

A Life in Translation

A Life in Translation

Full Disclosure

Full Disclosure

Joe Nyaggah

Joe Nyaggah

Dash Station

Dash Station

Strange Native

Strange Native

Brian Hoff

Brian Hoff

McKinney

McKinney

Design Mind

Design Mind

FÆBRIC

FÆBRIC

The Design Buzz

The Design Buzz

Quipsologies

Quipsologies

Brand New

Brand New

The Hickensian

The Hickensian

The Design Cubicle

The Design Cubicle

Veerle's blog 3.0

Veerle's blog 3.0

Jake Przespo

Jake Przespo

The Brooklyn Circus

The Brooklyn Circus

SimpleBits

SimpleBits

Design Swap

Design Swap

LivingDesign

LivingDesign

What Katie Does

What Katie Does

Ivana's Projects

Ivana's Projects

Photo Matt

Photo Matt

Cafundó Estúdio Criativo

Cafundó Estúdio Criativo

Design is Dead

Design is Dead

Creative Everyone

Creative Everyone

Anotherfaceinthecrowd

Anotherfaceinthecrowd

Life Around Me

Life Around Me

ohasuper

ohasuper

Christoph Zillgens

Christoph Zillgens

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  • http://www.musings.it Federica Sibella

    I love “a life in translation”: simply beautiful!

  • http://www.ryanfmc.co.uk Ryan McNamara

    Rather upset my blog was not included, as I feel it’s rather kick ass! Having said that there are some great pieces of work here to look through, cheers.

  • http://www.samuelschmitt.net Sam

    And the last one
    http://www.samuelschmitt.net

    :D

  • http://www.how-to-asp.net Ryan

    These are definitely kick ass, thanks for sharing!

  • http://drebpro.com dreb

    Those are cool. Hoping someday i’ll be able design one and posted here :)

  • Michael

    A great site, too: http://freunde-der-werbung.de/

  • http://k-win.fr kevin

    WOW! Awesome list.

  • http://www.vicky89.com vicky

    really good collections . thank you for posting

  • http://charmingwp.com Ahmad

    Pretty cool roundup there is many nice designs for inspiration

  • http://ontwik.com/ ontwik web lectures

    The last one is really Kick Ass.

  • Devan

    Totally honored to be mentions amongst all these awesome sites. They all did the job at inspiring and hopefully my site has inspired a few too. Thanks for the mention.

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  • http://RichWP.com Felix

    Great collection! I really do like the “Design Made in Germany” site.

    It also looks like one column layouts will be seen more often in the near future.

  • http://jonathanmoore.com Jonathan Moore

    Nice to see ohasuper in the mix! He used one of my premium Tumblr theme http://inspirewell.tumblr.com/ to create that amazing variation. Thanks for featuring it.

  • http://www.wpfanatics.com Wpfanatics

    Great collection! Some have really nice use of typhografy, like The Design Buzz. Thanks for sharing!

  • http://heathwaller.com/ Heath Waller

    This is a truly superb collection. Woe – I feel so inspired. And rather ashamed of my own blog! This gives me the incentive to step it up a few notches! Thank you for an amazing collection.

  • http://www.redsauce.com redsauce

    So many of these designs are so minimalist – I have to wonder when that will stop being the preference.

  • http://www.strangenative.com Russ

    An honor to be included in such an amazing list! These designs blow mine out of the water!

  • http://www.swopper-shop.de Swopper

    These are the most original personal blog design collection I’ve seen … thanks for sharing :)

  • http://www.blu72.com BLU:72 Creative

    Some great examples there, i just spent ages looking through them, very inspiring!

  • http://www.wthemes.net Kumar

    Grear collections…Thank you for sharing