Showcase: 30 Beautiful Blog Designs for Inspiration

Oct 19 2011 by Jacob Gube | 29 Comments

A beautiful and well-designed blog can leave a lasting impression onto its readers. With so many sites competing for the attention of Internet users, the appearance of a blog can be a large factor in helping it stand out from the crowd. In this showcase, you’ll find a wide variety of beautiful blog designs for inspiration.

If you’d like to see more blog designs not in this collection, see our other showcase: 40 Excellent Blog Designs.

1. The Design Cubicle

2. The Kennedys Blog

3. Cookiesound is Travelling

4. Growcase Blog

5. Minne’s Diner

6. Bongo Blog

7. Colbow Design

8. The Official Squarespace Blog

9. 1LOVE

10. Solo

11. Tapp3 Media

12. Forefathers Group

13. From Me To You

14. Burciaga

15. Thomas Aull Blog

16. Column Five Media Blog

17. Colorcubic

18. Rice Bowls

19. Cory Etzkorn Blog

20. SimpleBits

21. Demain J’arrête

22. Art & Graft

23. Bitfoundry Blog

24. CSS-Tricks

25. Teehan+Lax Blog

26. Sullivan NYC Blog

27. Leaderbe Consulting

28. Sam Wilson

29. heyIndy Blog

30. Trent Walton

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

29 Comments

Shikeb Ali

October 19th, 2011

Very interesting, bookmarking this post and will consider them when redesigning mustified.com design.
thanks Jacob.

Kam Banwait

October 20th, 2011

http://www.kambanwait.co.uk – a responsive jquery/css blog

omvaishnav

October 20th, 2011

Great List of blogs… Thanks Jacob for sharing. Most of these are new to me, at least for me these are very useful..!!

sanjay

October 20th, 2011

Great collection! I like Indy and CSS-Tricks.

Fábio ZC

October 20th, 2011

Good list for inspiration!

May I sugest a nice blog to include in is list?

http://www.comunidadead.com.br/blog

Thanks

Emir Ayouni (@growcase)

October 20th, 2011

Cheers for the write-up Jacob!

Siva

October 20th, 2011

1Love looks cool out of all for me

shoully

October 20th, 2011

i love no. 10 ( solo ), it’s breaty clean :-)

Aravind Ajith

October 20th, 2011

Wow. It’s time to redesign my bog!

Lena Kwan

October 21st, 2011

Blog designs gives impact to its reader. For me, I like the simple and light designs. I will try some of your designs on my blog. Thanks for sharing those beautiful blog designs.

Usman

October 21st, 2011

Well i think so the blog design of sixrevisions.com is far inspirational then many of the blogs in this list. I think Techcrunch.com also deserves a mention in this list

adam

October 21st, 2011

Cheers Jacob, some inspirational blog designs in there! Always loved Squarespace’s & Rice Bowls blogs…

Sarah Bauer

October 21st, 2011

I really dig the idea of having a blog for one’s small business that feels stand-apart ( it should be reflecting a more casual voice than the business site itself), but also inextricably linked to the home site, both visually and narratively.
Some of these blogs definitely reflect that. RESPECT!

Raj Mehta

October 21st, 2011

Awesome collection of blog design ,

Thanks for sharing with us

khaled azrak

October 21st, 2011

Hello,

Thanks, really insipiring.
Maybe if you can give you own notes and point of view it will be a good addition

ThuThuatPC

October 21st, 2011

Thanks for share, they are very beautiful.

Mark

October 23rd, 2011

Another great collection form Jacob Gube, If i surf the internet I have to surf lot of time to see this kind of great design.

Raj Mehta

October 23rd, 2011

I use wordpress for blogging. These are very good designs to get inspired for all the web designers of web development companies. Simplicity and usability are the key here.