100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design

Awesome! This is a massive collection. It is hard to choose a favorite.

nice! 100 impressive designs.

Thanks a lot for featuring colourpixel.

Wow! very very nice , thank.

thx for including. good collection of great websites!!

Love all this collection. A lof of work for sure

Nice!

There are a couple of sites featured here which I have been looking for for ages but could never find them. So I am super stoked to find them here.

Thanks for featuring We Are not Freelancers!!

Dugg!

Great list! Thanks for posting it.

These are extremely nice. I love these.

great list! inspired me to work some more on my blog… thanks…

Hey, fantastic collection.. thanks for the mention

Some really fantastic sites in this list.. I’m loving all the hands-on quality of the scratches and textures.. really lovely..

Great list! Gratz!

wow, super collections ….. !

cool collection! thank you!

Cool! I miss one on this list, mine… blog.andreaugusto.com.br !
Congrat, merry xmas and happy new year!
From ur new brazilian reader: Andre Augusto

Some of them are way too impressive !!

few of them are deborahcavenaugh, ilovecolors, kreativaunlimited etc…

Thanks for Shearing.

DKumar M.

Wauw, what a nice post! Really impressive collections. Very inspiring!

Really, truly a great collection you have here. Nicely done. Definitely bookmarked.

Thanks for the inspiration on this Friday morn.

very impressive collection! kudos for the hard work collecting and researching. thanks for sharing!

Great designs, and many that I haven’t seen in other lists. Good job.

Wow–what a huge resource! Thanks for all of the hard work. Impressive!

Amazing source of inspiration

Amazing. Thanks for compiling this.

I am outstandingly INSPIRED by this collection! Thank you so much!

WOW! NICE! A lot that I haven’t seen before. I really liked Jiri Trvek’s because it was a little different. These are all amazing, but some of them really get looking the same sometimes.

Nice post!

So much inspiration… makes me want to design, RIGHT NOW!

wow. thanks for including my site on this list. there are some amazing sites here!

this is one awesome collection. inspiring. definitely worthed reading/reference.

These are great additions to beautiful web design. I love how creative people can get with them, it’s just so nice to see.

Well, I think http://www.lolabek.com/realmotion.html and http://www.bibimovie.com are pretty awesome

A site’s design is only as good as it’s content.

Tay Zonday has a cool one.

http://www.tayzonday.com

Done by none other than Keebz.

Wonderful. Great resource for inspiration!

These are some impressive and beautiful designs. I was hoping to find some ideas for our upcoming redesign, but found little here that would lend itself either to:
1. A site with lots of content in lots of different areas; and
2. An audience over age 25.

Anyone have any lists of good looking sites that might fit those criteria?

Thank you for posting my site belvedereinc.net on this list! It’s an honor to be listed!

At 37 and after nearly 20 years in the business am I old fashioned when I ask:

Where’s the design here? it’s like Illustrator and Photoshop threw up on the screen!

Wow! These websites look impressive.

Thanks for sharing this great list!

Those are some beautiful websites! Bookmarking this so that I can come back and spend more time looking at them. Something to definitely aspire to.

Brilliant list. Excellent choices –

But in order to properly gauge why these sites are so beautiful, I think it’s necessary to show one that is not. prepare yourself before you visit this trajedy – (havenworks[dot]com).

My eyeballs are still cussing me out.

Great collection! Thanks a lot for the inspiration!
Cheers from Berlin.
evowo

I agree with Walter. It looks like the same person chose all 100 because they all have the same flaw. These are not great web designs, though they all have a common artistic element.

Blown away! FABULOUS!:-)

Luckie.

The majority of these are not designed they are wanna be artist. Almost every example is a busy cluttered mess. Throwing in everything for “wow” factor is not design, it is the complete opposite. Graffiti maybe, design – hardly.

There are some great designs on your list: Ali Felski, Viget, and a couple others, but I don’t think these all constitute ‘outstanding artistic design’. They’re nice, sure, but I would have tried to include (and this is by no means a criticism of the list you’ve compiled, God knows, there is just too many great sites to find them all) a few that aren’t so heavy-handedly grunge, but still manage to captivate, like: http://www.thinkbrownstone.com , http://www.designsensory.com , http://weightshift.com, http://www.jasonsantamaria.com, http://bookmarks.bennington.edu/bookmarks.html

Am I the only person who thinks these are all 90% identical? Lots of lovely sites, but one or two ideas expressed over and over again. I guess we know what was hot in 2008, let’s hope 2009 will usher in a new era of variation!

Thanks for putting Design is Philosophy on the list. It’s always nice to see that people are paying attention to what you do. Love the design of this site btw: visually pleasing and functional at the same time.

I agree with Suzanne, highly repetitive ideas in much of these – although of a high standard. I guess the person who selected them has a thing for this style (and that’s fine) but there’s not much diversity in this 100.

Stupidly good collection. Some incredibly good design & coding going on there.

Thanks for sharing.

Mind blowing………..

Hi,

Thanks for including our site in this beautiful collection. We appreciate it and hope others have gained inspiration from the effort you have put in

Thanks for posting rin-wendy.com as one of the websites. It is a really an honor to be listed.

The list has a lot of website which I love too. Very good collection of sites here for inspiration.

nice designs …

Wow, thanks for the collection, amazing styles.

Great list, some I had already seen, al lot new designs, surely an inspirational source.
Nice list of websites to check out as well, just to see how the content holds up to the design

Wow! .
perfect designs !.

Thanks for sharing.

Good sites to look at when you’re feeling uninspired.

Isn’t there something circular about a list of highly designed websites of website designers? I wish someone would do a list of stylish websites that AREN’T studios’ websites.

Regardless there’s some good inspiration here…

Cool stuff! Great ideas for my website. Thanks. Check out some of my Pics with infrared thermal Imaging.

very nice, very informative, and very cool

Beautiful collection !

wow… this most have taken a while to compile, either way … awesome collection

I don’t think my site belongs up there with the likes of Veerle, Viget, and Avalonstar. But I can take a compliment.

Thanks so much for the feature and for the link. Awesome list.

An incredible array of design. Extremely versatile and dynamic. I will definitly be referencing this for ideas later on.

It seems that all of these sites are pretty cluttered, and have elements that take up space simply for the sake of it. Also they seem to all have to same “blog” type design, aligned center and very long. There is some nice stuff here, but I wish there could be a better array of design. When stripped down to their basic elements many of these sites are very similar.

I don’t mean to sound critical of the list, it is a good one, just something that I noticed.

beyond Inspired.

Nice works. I’ll learn to make professional and unique desings

Those are awesome Blogs design, I am impressed. I was thinking that my Blog looks nice, but those put mine to shame, some day I must have re-do it!
Thanks
Michaela
http://michaelacernescu.com

Hi all,
Really great gallerry, espacially meomi site:)

Thanks for including my site!!! Always feels good to be mentioned alongside such outstanding designs

exelenteee muy buenos referentes web 2008-09
saludosa todos los creativos
desde CHILE America Latina

Thanks for posting these!

Hi sir, you have a great gallery of web design inspirations , i love it! Waiting for more.. I have just subscribed to your feeds

Most of the mentioned websites use good looking fonts that are very stressful on the eyes, if you read a lot.

Thanks for the inspiration. Some truly stunning sites there.

nice works thanks a lot..

It seems a lot of blogs have been bringing light to beautiful web designs. I have been looking at them and appreciate them for their lovely art. Thank you for posting more nice looking site. I understand how much work is actually involved in their creation and they are fantastic.

Thank you for including my website in this wonderful collection, it’s an honor.

Much apriciated thanks!!

Very nice selection. Quite slow for all the jpgs to load but you can’t overcome this problem

aligned center and very long. There is some nice stuff here, but I wish there could be a better array of design. When stripped down to their basic elements many of these sites are very similar.

Great list!

Makes me feel like beginning on the new version of my website. Too bad I still have to do these end terms. =(

Walter, thank you very much for including my design ILoveColors, I’m really flattered.
There are some people saying that this sites doesn’t feature design. I would like to ask what these people regards as design, using Helvetica bold in a white background? I have a career in graphic design, and we have always been told to not to limit ourselves. I have always designed by the “Form follows function” principle, and anytime I add something I take good care that it won’t interfere with user navigation or the information. Take a look at my newest site http://colorcitos.com that features the same trend than the awesome sites featured here. Can you say you can’t find something on the site? the word Catalog, is repeated several times in different contexts. There’s even an advice (for the computer unfriendly people ) on the catalog page to click on the images in order to show them larger. This is design. Design to achieve maximum functionality. Some people like to design with Helvetica bold on white, and other people like to do this kind of design. I try my best at designing and I believe all these designers do, we can see in their designs that they put life and heart in every work to achieve a clear navigation. Every important element is highlighted to be quickly accessible and the overall design is even clean to me. Maybe someone with twenty years in the business belongs to a different generation that cannot read things as fast as youths can do now, but the current designer generation knows that youths and middle age people must be tackled using a myriad of things to caught their attention.
Walter, I can see you featured my favorite site nowadays, Free People boutique. Not only its design is superb, but it has a catalog made in flash that really blow my mind because you can easy reach every garment the model has, I haven’t seen anything like that in any other place.

My website is much more creative and better designed than about half of these professionally illustrated a lot of these are not truly artisitc at all.

Its a great collection. Thats a great list of user interfaces. Nice work.

Hey that’s an Awesome collection …. Gr8 work ya……n Thnx a lot…

Awesome collections which is i saw first time here and now i become the fan of this blog site. and i like to collect daily updation in my mail… and please share more information related to website designing and graphics designing.

This is a great collection, bookmarked and will be back for inspiration, thanks.

Gr8 designs. Winter design was very good.

Check out http://www.iampaddy.com

http://blog.iampaddy.com/web-20rigami/

wow!

Awesome to see my site listed among so many other great sites.

Hi Walter – What a wonderful surprise to see Wilmington, NC artist Deborah Cavenaugh’s website at the top of your illustrious list of top 100 site designs.

love it! Will definitely be back to visit this and rest of site again!

great collection! thanks for sharing.

all of these are really interesting

For some reason, on Firefox and Safari, all of your picture links are not loading. I have a broadband connection and a MAC. Just FYI.

One word: WOW!

Just discovering this selection… thanks for the mention, really flattered to be among these amazing designers !
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Uuuuuweeee thats a big ol’ pretty list you got there!

“100 websites”

why are they all blogs…

wow!!!!

Thank you so much for including me in this list. I really appreciate it

Wow, wonderful collection!

Fantastic, very nice, I like it.

big ol’ pretty list you got there!

For some reason, most of them are design pages…

Really really nice sites. I wish I could design like this. Some of them look like they are hand drawn – it’s excellent.

(I wonder how you could get a hand drawn picture onto a web site? my eldest uncle, auntie Harry, is an excellent hand artist and some of her stuff would look excellent on a web site).

Keep up the good work, aye ut.

Truly outstanding designs, very artistic.

Wow, those are some intense sites! Toucoulier (or something like that) must have taken forever to design! Cheers

One word: WOW!

This is the greatest inspiration site for Wordpress template. Nice collection sir.

so nice thanks

One word: WOW!

This is one of the greatest list of this moment, thanks for sharing

Excellent list of designs.Thanks for sharing.

I was pretty good too labor Templates are great for healthy hands.

Thanks for the inspiration.

great collection! thanks for sharing.

your post is helpful and informative

very thanx excellent themes..

This is one of the greatest list of this moment, thanks for sharing..

Great article again, awesome compilation. Also, check out our twitter background: http://twitter.com/dlstl

very nice ,thanks for sharing..

Nice desing page thank you

Awesome!

This page give very good ideas, thank you

informative page and excelent designs. thanks

Danke für diese beispiels,

Thankss

Thats very nice designs,

very good idea given, thanks

good idea bro. (but i though i can download them… xixi)
makaci anyway

Very cool list

Thats great, thanks for sharing

Many of the website featured in this gallery has excellent in terms of design and functionality, but few of the website designed showcased here are just have excessive design. Excessive design not only makes the website look poor quality but also harms the user experience and makes it difficult to navigate.

I’d been to all the sites … perfect sharing

very good…thanks

thank you

Thanks

Great website designs. I really like all. Great web design resources. Thanks for sharing.

Nice setup and designs. –
I have been looking for a 2009 top 100 list …

thats very good, thanks

Excellent collection. I cant really say I didlike any of them lol Brilliant!

and it looks very much like it’s primarily book marketing,

Nice setup and designs. -
I have been looking for a 2009 top 100 list …

thanks you.

Objective website metrics are definitely a niche that needs to be filled. Take Text Link Ads, for example.

i very liked design.good job.

thanks

Great collection! Thanks a lot for the inspiration!

a great library thanks.

thanks

Nice Site For evrtone

thanks

These are inspiring. Thanks for putting this together!

Awesome awesome list – really makes me want to do better web designs.

thank you

Great page, thanks for sharing.

thanx. nice job

These are inspiring. Thanks for putting this together….

Thanks for putting this together….

Some of my favourites:
toucouleur.fr, narfstuff.co.uk, kulturbanause.de, casioexilimlab.com, veerle’s blog,
http://www.biola.edu/undergrad/, great design blogspot, Jeff Sarmiento, Looks like Pixel Criminals is getting a redesign and colour pixel.

Web Design depot is the best out of the lot but wasn’t included

I think a few of them do not deserve inclusion.

Do you think my website deserves inclusion perhaps?

Thanks for sharing this great post. Inspiring

Very nice collection. You may wanna add http://mooti.de

I guess this new “messed-up” look counters the heavy-duty scripting required to get these sites to function. I am totally old school, a certainly no code writer, so I resist the messy-page trend. If that quality appeals to a specific audience, fine, but the real passion is in the functionality. Some of the sites have marvelous technique, but I didn’t find much “appealing” in the crayon-scribbling, color-clashing, type-bashing, bad .ai rendering, weak-cartooning chaos in many sites… I certainly don’t think these are the best designs. I think they reflect your taste. Your taste ‘right now’. These “styles” will be, “oh, that’s so-LAST-Month” by next Tuesday. But thanks for pulling together a quick preview of some of the trash-design out there! Helps me to demonstrate to clients what they are up against!

You are an astounding resource for this fantastic amount of discovery. Many, many thanks!

thanks for information

Great list of sites. I love the colors they use and thinking out side the box. Greatly implemented sites. Keep up the good work =)

wonderful

thanks infır

Some really lovely sites here. I agree that some are a bit cluttered, but very eye-catching at the same time.

I like this works…

thanks…

Wow !

I suppose its all down to personal taste, but most of these sites are over-designed for my liking. I prefer cleaner style.

its very nice documents and project.

good collection but almost all of them are blog style templates and i think some commercial website design should be there

I guess this new “messed-up” look counters the heavy-duty scripting required to get these sites to function. I am totally old school, a certainly no code writer,

I recently came across your blog. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Very informative and nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Outstanding!!! Never seen before…. I loved visiting this Blog as everytime I visit I’ll get something out of you guys…

I recently came across your blog. I don’t know what to say except that

first one is the best… good article thanks…

thanks

Those are some beautiful websites!

joomla wordpress and some php… really good works thanks

This collection of 100 websites with great artistic design is truly fantastic, unique and this is my design inspiration to create this kind of design. I also love your design too

joomla wordpress and some php… really good works thanks

:O great inspiration! thx!

its very nice documents and project… thank you

There is some really good designs. I am going to have redesign my blog now….

its very nice documents and project… thank you

Nice collection of designs… I liked it !!!

Very nice collection.. really hard word… keep it up…

I’m really very useful to follow a long-time see this as a blog here Thank you for your valuable information.

Very nice collection.. great !!!

its very nice documents and project… thank you

Well, nice article buddy… Someone will love to read this infor if I tell her about this. She’s really interested in this subject. Thanks again…

very creative and inspiring

Thanks for the informations they are too helpful for this subject

cool….it’s great design..but ithing it’s hard to load couse contain many picture

Thnx for the interesting post.I found it very useful for myself.Keep writing

Great job, keep it up. thanks

Thanks for the very creative and inspiring work.

very useful thanks for inspiring working.

Wonderful Designs. You are number one at this work !

Great Desings. Thanks for sharing.

very good templates. I will be use them for my blog !

t’s great design..but ithing it’s hard to load couse contain many picture

Great job thanks

Thanks for the informations

wonderful designs thanks for sharing !

what is the reasons for to be intelligent for them ? there is too many reasons for it ! thanks !

Wow! Wonderful collections! Really i loved it.

Thank you for sharing the information provided, and adds color to our world.

wow, what a great list, very useful…. this is the emporium-creative for every designer

t’s great design..but ithing it’s hard to load couse contain many picture

this is the new site for traditional wear

Excellent list. Thanx for the article.

really nice themes
Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing, good information

Grant writing . Thank you my friend

Wow–what a huge resource! Thanks for all of the hard work. Impressive!

Superr. Thank you. see

Did anyone ever read the story “The Emperor’s New Cloths” . . . just wondering . . .

nice for sharing such creative and inspiring designs. Its really awesome!!!!

wonderful collections!!!!!!!!!!

Nice and cool collections….

Nice and cool collections….

Nice designs and scope to give other designers something to work towards.
Good design of the studio 7 design.

Awsome – good to see there are some quality sites still being designed these days..
I am currently working on a nice php smooth logo site wide design.
I will post in a few weeks when completed.

Keep it up

These sites are absolutely gorgeous!!! I will definitely use them for inspiration – especially when I design a site for an illustrator’s portfolio!

Super Thanks for the post.

Nice designs Thanks

Super Thanks for the post