20 Creative Personal Blog Web Designs

As clearly and concisely defined by Wikipedia, a blog is ‘a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries (“posts”)…’. But when you do read back that definition you soon realize how far we have drifted away from it, especially over the last couple of years and particularly within the design community. Once upon-a-time a blog was a place where you could express your opinions, your thoughts and your ideas. Nothing more, nothing less. Just your personal writing.

Nowadays though, a blog is viewed as many things (a marketing tool, a means for businesses to communicate with customers, a portfolio, an ecommerce solution, and on, and on…) and very rarely do you come across a new blog that fits into the definition I highlighted above. Yes, I know that the web is continually evolving, and that trends do come and go. But when I was researching this post, I found myself yearning for a bygone era when discovering a new personal blog, especially within the design community, could often be exciting and educational.

Anyway, back to this post, the good news is that I did manage find 20 blogs, mainly from the design community, that not only do they meet the criteria set out by the Wikipedia definition above, but that are also beautifully and originally designed as well. Just as ‘blogs’ should be.

Here they are:

Visual Idiot

Rivers & Robots

Elliot Jay Stocks

Trent Walton

Jon Phillips

Dave Gamache

Karl Fernandes

Stuart Frisby

Sacha Greif

Jean-Philippe Gams

Janna Hagan (A Student's Guide to Web Design)

Hardly Code Blog

Jason VanLue

Jason Stone

The Mavenist

Tim Van Damme

Thomas Aull

Russ Maschmeyer

Girl With A Camera – Ashley Baxter

Massimo Dutti

Osvaldas Valutis

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