There is currently a strong trend in web design using drawn illustrations to tell a story and giving the website a unique look that is easy to remember. Often these are in cartoon style and quite funny but they are designed to support the design, the concept, the business or the message being communicated. Great illustrations used right are very powerful and make the design stand out. Web designers use illustrations in many different ways and parts of their designs. On some sites the illustrations dominates the page being a full size background and in others they are strategically placed on the page to support the content. In this article tripwire magazine gives you a list of more than 30 excellent illustrations used in web design.
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Great list.
I like the one from 960web. Great name and great illustration.
@Vunky, yes it is great…
You mean 690? If so, thank you!
Thank you for selecting 690 (even in the header!)
@Mariano, your welcome – well your design is awesome so it should be in the list!
Wow! Awesome article! I am not much of an artist/illustrator myself so I am always impressed to look at Illustrations. Great list you put together!
@TimothyWhalin
@Timothy, thanks, yes I know how you are feeling. For some reason good illustrations just makes a huge impact and designers know this of course.
Nice roundup and thanks for including Kinetic Shadows.
Really nice illustrations – I see that many of these employ gradients and that really makes them look less “clipart-ish”
Really awesome and creative.Good post.
Actually, I’ve been looking for a site and a blog that could give me contents and facts regarding web designs, and so I found it from this site, awesome post!
Great collection Lars, plenty of inspiration here to help me out on any upcoming illustrations. Cheers
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