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I am continuing Top DeviantArtist worth watching series and now I stopped to the best web designers I could find. I only listed those artists, whom layouts I found to be really unique and inspiring, taking classical web design actually to the next level.
These layouts are really artworks with amazing details, You usually don’t see browsing through the web. Consider this article as inspirational article now and if You choose to watch those artists, then inspiration blasts in long term. At first I wanted to pick only 2 website examples from each artists, but there was several so amazing webdesigns, where I couldn’t stop and picked 3 or 4 examples. Enjoy this list, hope this will help to get inspired in regular basis!
Consider checking also crazy designer portfolio roundup from year 2012 for even more inspiration.
1. Elusive – (22), from Canada.
2. ECP-Pro – Kim Roar Dag Steen Trollsås (18), from Norway
3. Fel1x – Felix Valentin, from Germany
4. Nikeos – (19), from Israel
5. JK89 – Justinas Krasuckas, from Lithuania
6. blind91 – Sebastian (18), from Germany
7. kakkr – from United Kingdom
8. mindfuckx – Jan Van Lysebettens (24), from Belgium
9. nodethirtythree – from United States
10. tehacesequence – Marcin (25), from Poland
11. Pixelbudah – Oasim Karmieh (28), Romania
12. TIT0 – Alexandr (24), from Russia
13. depthskins – Damian Madray (23), from Canada
Very loooooooooooong and beautiful website artwork – be sure to check it out in fullscreen.
14. sone-pl – Krzysztof Kolatorski (32), from Poland
15. Gregbike – Grzegorz Gawlik (22), from Poland
16. l-a-m-p-e – Philipp Lampe (20), from Germany
17. alexdesigns (19)
18. Frostenblade – (19), from Singapore
19. Jedi88 – Dennis, from Germany
20. Jimmybjorkman – Jimmy Björkman (18), from Sweden
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21. Ld-sign – Sascha Zemke (20), from Germany
22. Pho3nix-bf – Lucas (28), from Poland
23. JuliusX – Ali (20), from United States
24. Osec – Daryl Ginn (19), from United Kingdom
25. Nas-Wd – Nasir Wadood (24), from Pakistan
26. zee7 – Zulal (20), from Pakistan
27. Zhyphyr – Paris Miguez (28), from Spain
28. Pazdan – Tomek (22), from Poland
29. G30dud3 – George English (16), from United Kingdom
30. TurokFreak – Evertt De Sousa (25), from Brazil
31. Frose – (20), from Germany
32. Uribaani – Miika Ahvenjärvi, from Finland
33. CC-Designs – (18), from Germany
34. Carl06 – Carl (19), from Germany
35. Koenigpersoenlich – (16), from United States
36. Nonlin3 – Martin, from Poland
37. Rheyzer – Reynan Alibuyog (23), from Philippines
38. Outlines – Dimiter Tzankov, from Bulgaria
39. Sansana – Daria Michalska (20), from Poland
40. Niponwar – Vladimir Chernov (19), from Canada
Ok, so this is pretty much it – at least for me this collection is in gold value, I just love web design, though I am lacking time, but in future, I’m sure I’ll release some good templates,themes and so. Enjoy, get inspired and watch those artists!
Add some more links, if You know very good web designers, who are not on this list!
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Dainis Graveris is 23 years old blogger and designer, founder of 1stWebDesigner, now more silently managing everything behind the scenes. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links and chatting with people. If you have any questions or feedback that's the best place to start! Cheers!
Sunday, March 4th, 2012 07:26
Thanks for the post, I like a few of these sites, but Alot of them are themes? just saying.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 17:47
Awesome websites
Friday, September 30th, 2011 17:14
@mike
Is the bird your work? If so I think you sould contact them!
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 13:26
good gallery
Thursday, August 18th, 2011 09:25
it’s superb and it’s very helpful for me. so thanks
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 13:19
great collection, Thanks.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 21:26
the designs are so cool :D
wish i could make one someday !!
Friday, February 25th, 2011 11:46
nice collection…… and its inspire me alot.. thanks..
Friday, July 30th, 2010 09:08
Nice :D. Thanks u
Monday, July 12th, 2010 12:07
really a good gallery..
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 12:42
thank u for the great collections … it is always guide for me
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 01:48
7. kakkr – from United Kingdom .
The bird was stolen from http://sattu.deviantart.com/art/iv2-services-44268978
Even from previous version http://sattu.deviantart.com/art/iv-website-2-1-40788653
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James De Angelis
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 00:25
This post illustrates both what i love about deviantart and hate.
On the one hand you have these incredibly visual and creative designs that have a lot of flair and character. Yet on the other, most of the designs would be terrible as websites and seem to be all visual with no thought to structure or how the thing might actually be used.
It would be great to see more press for designers who actually consider their user and have a graphic punch to the work.
Dainis Graveris
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 09:18
Thank You people for all those comments! And great to see several artists I listed also checking in – I feel actually honored :)
And about usability – I agree every designer should code his own design, at least Html, CSS. I know many sites should be very hard to code, but don’t forget also about Flash.
At least I enjoy those ideas and excellent presentation – while those sites could be hard to code, I consider these as excellent inspiration pieces for my own works!
Not all of the sites think so much about usability than presentation like designer portfolio, showcase sites, where the main option is – To Stand Out From The Crowd! One way or another I think almost all sites do this job!
(from my own experience – if You design something cool, but not very usable, You always can code and simplify everything – like optimize design, but I don’t agree (at least not fully) with people, who say that none of those sites won’t be effective in the real world.)
Good looking ( stand out) + Usable is very hard task to complete, but I think it is possible and it will be even more with CSS3 in future.
Tyler
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 03:44
Wow those are some nice websites, great inspiration
Tylers last blog post : 3D Text On Fire
Pedros
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 16:01
Great list … but i would love to see some of those websites css’ed :) It’s all about layouts …
great never the less! :)
Jan Van Lysebettens
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 14:46
thanks for the feature :)
aravind
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 09:50
wow.. another great list.. :)
thumbs up!
aravinds last blog post : Valentines day special Freebies: Heart and Cupid Illustrations
Johnson Koh
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 05:10
Very inspiring. Thanks Dainis!
Johnson Kohs last blog post : 40 Amazing Infrared Photography Images
Naldz Graphics
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 07:02
This is freaking huge.great list!!
Naldz Graphicss last blog post : 40+ Most Amazing Wallpaper Tutorials in Photoshop and Resources
brian
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 01:18
me thinks you like dark meat
Soh Tanaka
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 21:28
WOW these are all amazing pieces… Speechless!
Soh Tanakas last blog post : New Gallery Site: Design Bombs
Rafael
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 00:28
good designs , amazing
David A
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 22:05
Awesome … apparently, cutting edge web design = sexy and possibly half-naked women on the home page! I’m up for that!
Kayla
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 05:51
Great showcase! Very inspirational and worth watching–all of them!
Kaylas last blog post : Web Design PSD Photoshop Tutorials
Djerba
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 02:58
They are monsters :-)
It would be nice that devianART would share tutorials or ressources ;-)
Thank you for these links