Nice list!

Really nice,
how do you get that watercolor effects? In photoshop?

I’ve always wanted to include watercolor as well as handwriting into my websites. I didn’t know if it was going to be too cliche though but if I like it, I shouldn’t care about clicheness, right? Anyway, great list. They truly are an inspiration to me.

One of my favourites is happycog.com. It has a simple and brilliant layout.

Honestly, I’d put your site around the top of any list of beautiful sites. :D

Excellent list, I really like electricpulp.com …..

I would agree with Colin on the scanning in of watercolors.

@Timothy – it would depend on which site you’re talking about, but I’m almost positive (95% sure) that the watercolor effects on the happycog.com site was done by hand on paper and scanned in. Jason Santa Maria, the leading designer in this project, does an article on is blog about this.

@ Jermayn Parker – is that still a problem nowadays? I was just asking myself this question a few days ago – whether dial-up is as widespread and even a concern when dealing with higher-end graphics. I wasn’t able to find any statistics to help us out unfortunately.

@Jermayn Parker: Serifs affect how fast a webpage loads? Wow! I myself have been using a lot of serifs in my designs and all this time it’s been affecting the loading speed?! WTF!

@Matt Johnson: That works? I can’t believe it! I definitely have to give it a try myself someday and unfortunately, I’m still using a dial-up connection. Good thing I can still survive! LOL!

@Nick: Nice!

The sites mentions are lovely indeed. However, there are TOO many sites that are laid out like happycog.com. I can’t deny that it’s a nice site – the watercolors are beautiful but I’ve seen so many sites that have the same layout.

Nice list! Small suggestion: maybe you should try _blank on your hyperlinks.

Hmm.. Nice List! good for a lot of inspiration! I even spotted a former co-student from DVTG (snagt.net). Ah nice start of my day.

Goog good collection…. like them up

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Your work amazed me~ I love your design :)

Thanks a lot for posting this brilliant list! I’ve been going around CSS galleries to find inspiration for my redesign–I was going for the same organic, artistic effect but got stuck somewhere–and I’ve always wanted to see all these artistic sites all in one organized list. This has been very helpful!

Hi Kishore Nagarigari,
Nice site design – I toyed with the idea of doing a right-aligned site, but decided to go with traditional centered. Nice to see someone doing something different. FYI your ajax portfolio tool looks really messed up on my mac – the work partially goes beneath your site background.

great list…
very inspirational..

Amazing trendy designs.

Thanks for the love! Cool site.

Wow a lot of art thanks!!!

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Brilliant!! Absolutely fantastic!

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Thank you

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i know nothing about html, but i do love designing.. i hope i can design mine someday. hehhehehe

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These sites are all great! I’d have to say though that yours is the best. :)

I really love the collection – very inspiring, keeps me coming back for more!

http://www.urbana.com.uy is a Uruguayan based FM station, with strong power among youngsters in the country. It has yet one more memorable website with great Design! U can also enjoy the music from the web.

Very eye-opening the use of CSS to style these sites and how easy it is- well
all except for the planning :)

The point is, regular folks CAN do this! Thanks for the inspiration.

Wow verry nice, I like them alot and i have to say good work!

Cool links…Thanks for the research …keep it up!

Very inspirational. I work in education (general IT, including web/design for our institution). The Biola.edu ite is a great example of expanding on what can be a very boring (though informative) topic – college admissions, tution, general campus info. Having something attractive gives off an aura of creativity and modernism. I don’t want to pigeonhole certain institutions but I find it interesting that a religious university would go with something so unconventional (a SF or UK fashion school? it would be expected).

Our look is tired and the layout/function didn’t play out as well as I would have liked. I also got myself trapped into a handcoding nightmare with CSS and includes – basically leaving all the updates up to me and another team member (rather than a CMS method that we could hand off to the various departments) – second, and most important, we squeeze in updates and refreshes amongst the million other non-web related IT functions we have to do daily.

I would appreciate some C & C from you or any of your readers – maybe a suggestion on a CMS that would work better as a standard page by page site than as a blog.

That all aside, how are you managing the screenshot links? It’s a very cool feature, how they open up over the regular page, leaving the user still ‘here’ but centering attention to the info they requested (the s.shot).

Great site!!

i am awed by YOUR site! and these sites are just as fantastic. the watercolor effect is just breath-taking!

thank your for these inspirations. i’m inspired to create something artsy cause my site is not really artsy as of now. thanks!

WOW! these are really cool. Thanks, i visit your website just as much i do with engadget and DIGG :D.

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Nice Links!

http://www.asvalia.com is artistic site

Where can I find someone who can make a creative & cute website? All the designers I am finding from web searches are all so generic and formal. I need a creative cute design for a scrapbooking website. Why is it so hard to find someone with creative juices flowing?

@Christina: Are you still looking for a web designer? I checked your sites, but there is no contact form there. How can I contact you?

Nice collection of sites by the way!

very inspiring sites, so creative indeed.

Hi there, I’m one of your lurkers who’s coming out specifically to say that, without a doubt, your site has the nicest design I’ve ever seen. I just love those flowers!!

regards,

ellen from ireland

Nice examples, we are developing web 2 sites with artistic view for our latest projects.

Muy interesante las tecnicas utilizadas para desarrollar estas web, donde puedo obtener mas informacion o asesoria particular para un diseño tan original como estos… gracias…chau

Best designs, I have seen ever on this site.

I really appreciate your work, congratulations!!!!
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There is a really nice selection here, my only comment would be that there is so much going on with this page that I feel like my ADHD is going to get me lost.

Glossy really gone? I only changed my logo to glossy about six months ago :(

How about a poll on preferred website styles (like your SEO one)? Might be useful in spotting the definitive stand-out next trend…

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This is a magnificent collection. I would love to appear in your inspiration sites one day.
The more I learn one your site the more I realise how little I know and how much I need to learn.
Cheers and thanks so much for this and all your wonderful work.
Di

Very cool and inspirational site! I visit this almost everyday to get my creative juices going :)

Wow. Very artistic. : )

Sorry to say the images didn’t display after clicking on the screenshot thumbnails, although the ‘lightbox’ effect worked fine here >>

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

Simple, cool, and cutes design

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The designs showed here show what simple and tasteful design is all about. Another one to consider that is basically a vast collage that when taken together is itself beautiful is at http://www.onepageoneworld.com. At first I didn’t know what to make of this site but after visiting a few times I got the idea and now I hope that others visit to experience it.

I will consider to use one of it for our new site. Thanks..

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Where can find so much sites like these?

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These are great examples……..keep them comin!

Hey guys – am I missing the download for these designs or are these just examples. Very nice work either way. You should submit to wordpress if they are built for themes. I’d love to use a couple of them!
-Mike

nice work done.

I really like happypeople.com great colors on that one. Thanks for sharing.

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Nice article – thanks for sharing – there are really awesome designs here – but please make sure that your branding and design language is carried through into your printed collateral.

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Some really good sites here, a reminder to break from the norm and do something innovative!

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