30 Inspiring Web Design Layouts from deviantART
deviantART, a widely popular online graphic design community, is an unlikely (but surprisingly terrific) place to find inspiration for web design. There are many designers and artists at deviantART who choose to display their beautiful creations to the rest of the community. In this collection, you’ll find some of the best web design layouts created by deviantARTists.
1. add dot cc *
2. Portfolio project
3. Panda Sofa
4. Dark glassy template for 4T
5. Dark portfolio
6. -YAPP Portfolio-
7. Art-themed template for 4T
8. iThink
9. Eye For Art
10. D’tal Spot
11. vanci
12. Barbroute Design v5
13. Source
14. NEIMS
15. Pastorant Restaurant
16. pirat
17. Interface
18. UnboxedGames
19. Onyx
20. Andrew Brown
21. Rokr
22. Imago
23. 101 Clan Gaming Interface
24. G Travel Website 4
25. Ford Explorer Website
26. TRA Website
27. - Matt Kenseth -
28. Space Age Myspace
29. Soundphoenix.fm
30. Web Practice
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* Original featured design replaced by request.
About the Author
Tyler Denis is a part-time freelance designer from Ashland, New Hampshire. He is also the creator/writer of the design blog Denis Designs/blog, a website dedicated to bringing quality tutorials and inspiration. You can follow him on Twitter or at his personal site, Denis Designs.
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62 Comments
adam
May 8th, 2009
Hi Tyler,
I am all for using inspiration as part of the webdesign process, but to simply rip the main artwork from somebody else’s site and a few lorem ipsum statements and call it your own is in my mind plagiarism.
No1. urben event – Please refer to dawghousedesignstudio dot com’s award winning website.
A nice list by the way, bookmarked for future ref.
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Daniel15
May 8th, 2009
Some very nice web designs here :D
This is why I’ll never get into web design… I can’t compete with things like this.
monie
May 8th, 2009
Great collection! Can’t take my eyes of it!
Mike
May 8th, 2009
Great post; I really enjoyed most of the sites, though I can’t say I’m wild about the infringement on Panda Sofa.
Jarod Taylor
May 9th, 2009
There are some pretty good/creative ones there. There are also some complete ripoff/copies of other well known blog/portfolio sites.
Kakasab
May 9th, 2009
Denis…its really awsome ! could you suggest me some free template which can be used for my portfolio ?
Kai Köpke
May 9th, 2009
Thank you for the inspiration. Some really nice designs…
Greetings from Germany
Jan
May 9th, 2009
The first entry on this post is actually MY website which has also been featured on Six Revisions twice. The person who did that just copied my site and tweaked it! That guy is a thief!!!I would appreciate it if you would take it down immediately. Thanks.
theCount
May 9th, 2009
(mostly) Excellent selection from deviantart, not easy considering the kazillions of resources there. Well done!
neeshu
May 9th, 2009
it would have been great had you given the name of websites as well links which lead to these websites rather then just design pages
thanks
Television SPy
May 9th, 2009
Wow there are some extremely talented people on deviantart.
Abdulhakim Haliru
May 9th, 2009
Good job and pretty much inspirational. Thank u so much 4 dis!
Numan Nazir
May 9th, 2009
Where can your imagination take you? to heights beyond the sky….
Matthew James Taylor
May 9th, 2009
These designs look beautiful but beautiful artwork like this tends to overshadow the content on the page (which is the whole reason why people go to a website anyway). I personally prefer simple, clean website layouts for this very reason.
Bondea
May 9th, 2009
Hm, while some are visually striking or may have nice treatment (the ones that aren’t ripoffs that is), I wouldn’t say any of these employ inspirational *layouts*
Hugo
May 9th, 2009
great designs … love them !!!!
Tutorial City
May 9th, 2009
Really awesome artworks!
engkalak
May 9th, 2009
I think the title should be 30 Beautiful & Resource Hungry Web Graphics. Simple is also beautiful!!! Ever thought about that???
Jan
May 9th, 2009
@adam: Urban Event copied my website. Thank you for noticing that too. Very well said.
Kev Jaques
May 9th, 2009
Some cool designs there, nice use of textures and lot’s of scenic background images. It’s the attention to detail that does it for me and overall composition/contrasts. Both artistic and clean, simple sites rock but agree with Matthew – simple, clean rocks.
Mogwhy
May 9th, 2009
Anything that the public has access to will eventually inspire a “me to” version. Car models, cell phones, clothing, operating system interfaces, the Honeymooners (original), the Flintstones, etc. If something is worth imitating it will be. Good Intuitive User Interface design is a must when trying to compete for and hold someones attention.
MarcoBarbosa
May 9th, 2009
Wow! Great inspiration!
Though Matthew James Taylor has a point there: exaggerated design overshadows the content
Design freak
May 9th, 2009
wow…… amazing designs!!!!!!!!!
Wayne
May 9th, 2009
Beautiful sites. Thanks for pulling these together. I agree that having a link to the website is helpful-so we can delve further if desired.
sdfasjdkl
May 9th, 2009
That second one is clearly illegally using the firefox logo.
Shame on them.
michael soriano
May 9th, 2009
No 1 – is a straight duplicate of DawgHouse. No 2 – How the hell are you going to implement the text in the pages – unless you use images for the entire thing (or flash).
Otherwise – pretty good collection you got.
Heather
May 9th, 2009
I think it would be a nice gesture to remove the first one since it is a major rip off of http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/ There are some other really beautiful ones in this post though :)
Jacob Gube
May 10th, 2009
Hello everyone. I apologize for the oversight. Jan (from DawgHouse Studios) and I are currently in communication via email with regards to what course of action we’d like to take. We’ll either leave it there and put a note and a link to the original design with a statement that the design was taken for their design, or replace it entirely. Stay tuned, should be resolved today.
alex
May 10th, 2009
Nice list thanks for finding them
Cubanoid Designs
May 10th, 2009
Great stuff.
Thanks for posting..
Jacob Gube
May 10th, 2009
Just an update: we chose to replace the first design featured, with a * that refers to a footnote that links to @Jan’s comment here. I apologize for the inconvenience and I’d like to thank everyone who pointed out the error. I wanted to go to a more extreme solution and leave the offending piece up there with a note that says the design was taken from DawgHouse Design Studio. Jan preferred a more subtle solution, which was to just replace the image (Thanks again Jan, and sorry for that).
Cubanoid Designs
May 10th, 2009
Was jst wondering if it would be illegal to come up with a tutorial for how one of these was built.
A PS tutorial ??
Nikitafullmoon
May 10th, 2009
Pretty, yup. But how many run without Flash? Are cross-browser compliant? How many meet WCAG standards? Which have logical, transparent navigation? How about content that is written in such a way that it can be scanned? There is a time and a place for beautiful graphics, but to me, many of these layouts contradict the principles of good design, as gorgeous as they are. Good design is about solving problems, and the web presents its own set of those problems, and if a site layout doesn’t address those, it fails. Kung-fu Panda or no.
José Mota
May 10th, 2009
:O
I’m speechless. 14 , 25 & 26 blew me, they look perfect! You can craft remarkable websites just by using stunning photography. Kudos to the artists!
Callum Chapman
May 10th, 2009
3, 7, 12 and 15 are my favourites, excellent designs and great source of inspiration, thanks!
Tommie
May 10th, 2009
Nikitafullmoon, I totally agree with you on that one.
Marty
May 10th, 2009
@Nikitafullmoon: Seriously, did you just get done taking Web Design 101 at a community college? Talk about preachy. Let art be fluid and let web design be more than just strict rules that kill the fun.
p.s. Love the designs. All of them!
Jan
May 10th, 2009
@Jacob Gube: Thanks a lot for making that update. My site has been copied a couple times before and it upsets me every time. Below was another incident wherein my site was copied:
http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/blog/archives/2008/aint-this-familiar-tsk-tsk-tsk/
DeviantArt has not yet taken it down but I’m glad a couple of people noticed it and commented. I’m expecting them to take it down soon. To all those who would like to notice the BLATANT RIP, here it is:
http://hamid786.deviantart.com/art/urben-Event-121151136
Thanks again, Jacob, for making the necessary changes. And to all those who pointed it out, thanks a lot too!
sohel
May 11th, 2009
great job did yaar this is good platform for new designer..
honour chick
May 11th, 2009
excellent inspirations. riped-off or not… doesn’t change the fact that they are all great. :) thanks for the post!
amit
May 11th, 2009
Excellent creations, i liked all that ……
Jacob Gube
May 11th, 2009
Just another update guys and gals: A fortunate and serendipitous result of this whole debacle is that Jan and I are in talks about collaborating with each other! She’s a such a talented web designer, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work with her.
@Jan: As they say, imitation is the best form of flattery. I do sincerely apologize for the oversight; my understanding was that the deviantARTist took inspiration from your design and credited you as such, but looking into it, there is no mention of your portfolio site at all.
Tom Ross
May 11th, 2009
Incredible designs here. Really inspirational post Tyler!
Roberto
May 11th, 2009
Very nice list. Thanks.
Nick Pettit
May 11th, 2009
Absolutely incredible. I wish I was this good! :D
Claire Web
May 12th, 2009
Some fantastic web design talent here. I always look at others web designs for inspiration, and these will really up the game for me. So different yet equally as good as eachother. Absolutely loving 1, 3, 7, 9, 12. Pretty much all of them to be honest!
kamrul
May 12th, 2009
Awesome design! Inspiring really.
BIGGEST DOG EVER
May 12th, 2009
A TOP DOWN DESK SITE? REALLY!
IN 2000 AND 9 A TOP DOWN DESK METAPHOR FOR A WEBSITE?
*Edited for language*
Tyler
May 13th, 2009
Thanks everyone, I’m glad you like them!
This post is meant to get your creative juices flowing. As for the coding part of these websites I think that there are a few that are completely impractical but on the other hand if you can take something away from them then they did their job.
Also, since these were from deviantART, many of them are done only in Photoshop or a similar program, so unfortunately there aren’t any live versions of them.
e11world
May 13th, 2009
I think I will print most of these designs, hang them onto a board and make it my inspiration for all web design.
Thank you!
Damon Oehlman
May 13th, 2009
Awesome. Great inspiration… now I think I am going to find some ability :/
timekeeping software
May 14th, 2009
I REALLY don,t like the 2 number becaosue it,s not look like web sight AT ALL my favourite lay out has all ways been the new ground web sight D
AL
May 16th, 2009
Thanks for featuring my work (#28)! I appreciate it. I think all of the others are 4x better, but I’m glad people like my design, even though it is only a myspace profile.
Awesome work
May 17th, 2009
That is awesome work. I’m starting to get sick of the standard Web 2.0 sites you see alot of at the moment.
Back in the early 2000s all web sites looked different, but most where pretty ugly. Now they are all looking standard (and more professional).
So good to see some true web art.
Simba
May 19th, 2009
Lovely work mate. Art in its purest form, except for those stolen ideas.
keep it up and keep them coming.
Iman
July 14th, 2009
Dear friends
who knows where i can find some free samples?
Cazilu
July 22nd, 2009
Being fortunate enough to be a deviant, I’ve seen quite a few of these. Stunning.
Dreamweaver
September 26th, 2009
We all need a little inspiration from time to time and these top drawer web designs always inspire me to create better web templates for Dreamweaver. I truly hope that I one day will be able to master the art of web design! Thanks to your compilation of web designs… love ‘em !
Cara Dixon
October 20th, 2009
There is so much creativity here! Love the design of the ‘iThink’ website – it’s really striking! Great post!
Charity Hodges
January 22nd, 2010
Those are some beautiful and inspiring web designs. The Dark Portfolio is very simple but elegant.
designer
January 31st, 2010
Normally I don’t post in blogs, but yours forced me to do.
this is the best collection for inspiration I have ever seen
thanks for share.
Bent Design
February 11th, 2010
I like a bunch of these but I’m getting a little tired of the over use of gradients and the whole sci-fi look. They start to feel like templates.
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