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30 Inspiring Sites with Illustrated Backgrounds
13A well-selected background illustration can give a web design lacking a bit of color the right amount of pop, and it can convey a great deal of information about the site’s purpose and values inexplicitly as well.
The background illustration is a handy tool that can convey a sense of playfulness with a colorful cartoon or imply the values of a particular setting with a high-resolution photograph. In this article, we look at 30 websites that use this tool to great effect.
Saratusar
Yes Insurance
TorisEye
BirdBox
Bowtie Periods
Arbel Designs
Creative Switch
Cute Little Factory
Cool Brush Design
Deborah Cavenaugh (Portfolio)
Dedoce
Dean Oakly (Portfolio)
DiO
Designzilla
IndoFolio
Forrst
Kinetic
LegWork Studio
Joystick Generals
Moshi Monsters
Mikimottes
Octonauts
Reservoir34
Natrashka
Somos La Pera Limonera
Studio7Designs
Morphix
Ffive
Happy Webbies
The Many Faces of Alan Rickman
What are your favorite illustrated web designs? Let us know in the comments!
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Jean-Pierre Gassin
Jean-Pierre Gassin is a web developer, writer and design enthusiast from the Gold Coast, Australia. He runs The GeekGrounds, a tech and gaming culture site, and is studying a Bachelor of Information Technology.
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A quibble: Tori’s Eye is not a website. It is a web page that simply shows Tweets.
Amazing overview! THNX!
I love the Many Faces of Alan Rickman!
A very interesting collection of sites. Kinetic blew my mind with it’s eccentricity. A real work of art.
You should include Design Kanya site too. I find it apt to be categorized under this group for inspiration.
http://www.designkanya.com
ohh great i like this creativeswitch
Beautiful sites — but it would be interesting too to know how to build such image rich sites without them being really slow.
Does anyone have any tips on that? I’ve tried building a site with illustrated backgrounds, but the file sizes are pretty big and they take a while to load.
This is another great one: http://thecombine.org/
I really like these designs and what they bring to the table. Anything that is visually engaging and a break from the norm will allow people to spend more time on your site– which in turn helps you deliver your message.
I did the design and layout for http://www.anchordigital.net about 6 months back that I am pretty proud of.
Thanks
Nice post!!!
I love illustrator
great collection thanks for sharing
the all examples of background illustrations loking very nice , this list is perfect in my opinion .
Hi everyone, great collection of websites. Mine is also an illustrated portfolio, could you add it to your list if you like it? thank you