Creative Uses of Illustration in Website Design

One thing I love to see in web design is how artists and designers take a certain style of design and incorporate it into their websites. Last week I wrote an article titled: 30 Must See Character Illustration Tutorials. This article gave tips and tricks on how to create amazing character Illustrations. So today I find it only fitting that I write this post on website designs that are influenced by illustrations. In this collection of websites you will see some beautiful uses of illustration that will leave you speechless. Hope you enjoy!

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http://www.ormanclark.com

Professional Web Design by Orman Clark | Web Design in Berkshire

http://oldloft.com

old loft: web design & development

http://www.veboolabs.com

Veboo Labs & middot; Website Development

http://www.93urban.com

93URBAN // Old School Design

http://www.divvoted.com

DivVoted – vote for your favourite designs – another YoDiv site

http://www.cubeclub-chemnitz.de

Welcome! | Cube Club Chemnitz

http://www.colchesterschool.ca

Colchester Elementary | Home

http://mysnowbuddy.com

MySnowBuddy – Ride Share, Car Pool, Buy Sell, Mountain Weather Conditions, Lift Buddy, and More

http://www.mochimedia.com

The Largest Network of Online Games – Mochi Media :: Fueling Creativity

http://www.getmefast.com

Affordable Web Design Company | Professional Web Design Company – GetMeFast

http://www.clark-studios.co.uk

Clark Studios | Web Designer & Programmer based in Farnborough, Hampshire, UK

http://sketch.odopod.com

Odosketch is a flash drawing application created by Odopod, a digital agency in San Francisco. Create sketches, watch sketches replay, or simply view recent and our favorite featured illustrations

http://www.lukasztyrala.pl

Website of an illustrator and a web designer, who was born in 1983 and now works, studies and lives in Krakow (Poland).

http://www.mplusz.com

Mplusz, a web design agency. We create great web sites.

http://www.strawpollnow.com

Tiny daily polls in 140 characters or less.

http://www.tutorial9.net

Tutorial9 provides tutorials encompassing graphic design, website development, and photography. All lessons offered are entirely free, and community participation is encouraged.

http://stoodeo.com

We offer a long-lasting business partnership with you the client, while providing you with brilliantly stunning website design services for all of your web project needs.

http://www.pigeonandpigeonette.com

The official “Pigeon and Pigeonette” website (Dirk Derom & Sarah Verroken) with games, movies, free stuff and lots more…

http://www.schneeballschl8.de

Schneeballschl8 – der Duo-Blog

http://www.mergeweb.com

Web Design, Greenville, SC. Merge, a full service web developer specializing in web site redesigns, web hosting and web strategy consulting.

http://www.pojeta.cz

http://www.pojeta.cz/

http://owltastic.com

Writings about web design by Meagan Fisher – designer, xhtml and css writer, sketcher, and owl obsessor.

http://www.thegreatbeardedreef.com

The Great Bearded Reef is the website for Joshua Willis.

http://eanka.com

eAnka.com – Professional Web Development & Web Design

http://www.creamscoop.com

CreamScoop Web Development

http://deanoakley.com

Freelance Web design, Gold Coast, Brisbane

http://www.arpel.com.br

Website Arpel – Juiz de Fora | Minas Gerais

http://www.krolikov.net

www.krolikov.net – art studio

http://www.hutchhouse.com

Creative Digital Design for Web & New Media, Oxford, UK

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com

Web Design Resources and Tutorials – Webdesigner Depot

http://www.somme.no

Berit Sømme – Illustratør, Illustrator Norway Stavanger

http://fatburgr.com

Fatburgr | Nutrition information from your favorite restaurants!

http://www.gomediazine.com

Vector & Photoshop Tutorials, Freebies & Tips for Graphic Designers| GoMediaZine

http://www.ipersonalassistant.co.uk

iPersonalAssistant – personal assistance & minus the overheads

http://bradcolbow.com

Brad Colbow – Independent Web Designer, Illustrator

http://www.meomi.com

– meomi cloud house –

http://www.volll.com

volll – a small European atelier for design and development

http://www.iprimidieci.com

I primi dieci – le più belle classifiche di tutti i tempi

http://www.webdesignerwall.com

Web Designer Wall – Design Trends and Tutorials

http://www.branded07.com

Online web design portfolio of Rob Palmer, Creating accessible website design · Branded07

http://www.rothaniko.hu

RÓTH ANIKÓ

http://artgeex.com

Online portfolio of an art geek named Hayaty Mahdini from Miri Sarawak. Yes, I am a girl/lady/woman.

http://www.concept007.ru

Concept 007

http://rawkes.com

Rawkes: A web design studio on a mission

http://www.moshimonsters.com

Moshi Monsters is a brand new online game where you can adopt your very own pet monster. Each one has a lively, unique personality that develops the more you play.

http://octwelve.com

Octwelve – Blog of designer, MaryLuc Melgar

http://www.1024media.com

Edmonton Search Engine Optimization Services | ten24 SEO

http://www.redefine.us

RED Creative Group is a full service design firm specializing in websites built with content management systems (CMS), marketing collateral, and logo (identity) design.

http://www.thealamobasement.com

THE ALAMO BASEMENT

http://www.marryology.com

Amazing wedding planning tips no matter what your level of experience, or wedding budget!

http://www.yodiv.com

We help great designers and busy web developers by turning their PSD and Photoshop designs into perfect XHTML and CSS, ready for you to use in your website and web app. Fast and Cost Effective Turnaround for clients worldwide.

http://www.vectorart.org

Free Vector Stock Images | Free Illustrator EPS and AI Downloads | Open Source Vector Files

http://www.projectvino.com.au

project vino homepage

http://www.francie-pants.com

Show em London, show em Francie Pants — Fun with the Francies Show em London, show em Francie Pants — Fun with the Francies

http://www.studioespace.co.jp

www.studioespace.co.jp

http://www.iwit.nl

iwit.nl // Ewout van Lambalgen

http://www.jrvelasco.com

www.jrvelasco.com

http://www.kinoz.com

KINO Site graphic instinct: webdesign, artwork, logo, photo

http://leihu.com

leihu, the personal dominion of James A. Mathias an artist, writer & outlaw

http://fernandolandi.com.ar

Fernando Landi

http://www.blueacorn.com

eCommerce Consulting and SEO | eCommerce Blog | eCommerce Optimization & Strategy from Blue Acorn

http://www.wedomarkup.com

www.wedomarkup.com

http://www.kevadamson.com

Freelance Web Design, Illustration, Animation & Graphic Designer : UK

http://www.roome.co.uk

Roome Consulting

http://www.kitfolio.com

Hello, my name is kit, welcome to my little portfolio website

http://carsonified.com

Creativity with integrity – Offering world-class events for the web industry.

http://www.musiccityunsigned.com

www.musiccityunsigned.com

http://onstuimig.nl

www.onstuimig.nl

http://www.kinder-aktuell.de

www.kinder-aktuell.de

http://www.elitistsnob.com

Elitist Snob: Mac snobbery and such

http://oypro.com

Oypro Istanbul, Turkey Real Estate & Property Management

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Mars - October 6, 2009

those are really clean website with the use of illustrations

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Johnson Koh - October 6, 2009

Interesting and colorful list. :D

Sean - October 6, 2009

These sites are amazing! They draw your eye immediately to all of the main call-to-action locations on the site.

Very useful list.

tok - October 6, 2009

Illustrations are awesome!
But what will take their place?

Bogdan - October 7, 2009

Very impressive list, congrats! I love this type of design.
@tok: I`m curious too.

Jarrett Uguccioni - October 7, 2009

This was a really great blog post. It has helped me in my website design business to provide a better product and still keep my prices more affordable than most.

Thank you.

web designer - October 13, 2009

Thanks u r information

Business Services Mail Boxes - October 15, 2009

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clippingimages - October 19, 2009

WoW :) Awesome web design collections . Simply great. Thanks for sharing this fabulous list of web designs.

Pol47 - October 22, 2009

The payment situation is also conducive to spending more than you’d planned, because rather than seeing what you’ve bought all in one cart and, at the last minute, removing that one container of berries or piece of cheese that would really put things over the top, it’s only at the end of the trip, when you compare how much money you had on you with how much you’ve spent, that you get your total ‘receipt’ for the day. ,

Rita | Creative Graphic Design - October 23, 2009

Great compilation. They will certainly give everyone who love art and graphic designing inspiration and concepts to borrow and use on their future projects.