10 Fresh Galleries for Web Design Inspiration
Creativity needs a jumpstart at times. When you’re feeling creatively low, one of the best ways to get inspired is to admire and look at exceptional web designs. In this collection, you’ll discover some new web design galleries to check out. I hope you find at least a couple of new favorites that you’ll bookmark and visit regularly!
Want to find more design galleries? Check out these other collections:
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1. Wireframe Showcase
Wireframe Showcase lets you peek under the hood of a web design. Instead of focusing just on the finished layout — which is how most web design galleries work — featured designs on the site have a discussion by the web designer and screenshots of preliminary sketches, prototypes, and wireframes, giving you insight on their production process.
2. Heart Directed
A recently popular design trend is blogs that publish custom-designed blog posts. Heart Directed, a web project by Design Informer, highlights some masterfully crafted and visually stunning blog posts.
3. siiimple
siiimple, as the site’s name implies, features clean and simple web designs. It’s a great place to visit if you want to see how great designs can become when they’re boiled down to the bare essentials.
4. Grid-Based
Using grid layouts gives your designs a sense of order through systematic placement and alignment of design elements. Grid-Based is a niche web design gallery that showcases beautiful sites that employ grid systems (of course, presented to you as thumbnails aligned on a grid).
5. MephoBox
Typical web design galleries feature an entire screenshot (or a partial thumbnail) of web designs. However, MephoBox steps outside of this convention by placing common website components such as headers and web forms on center stage.
6. HTML5 Gallery
The HTML5 Gallery seeks to promote the use of HTML5 by inspiring web designers with real websites that already use the new standards. Richard Clark, a front-end designer in the UK and owner of the site, hopes that "a side effect of this [website] is that browser developers will see how many people are implementing HTML5 and add more support for it."
7. Typekit Design Gallery
We’ve talked about @font-face in the recent past through a guide on @font-face as well as a tutorial on the free Google’s Fonts API web service. Typekit, a leading subscription-based service for web fonts, has a web design gallery featuring the use of web fonts on real sites.
8. Mobile Awesomeness
Though some may contest the value of having a mobile design today, Mobile Web — without a doubt — is certainly the future. Mobile Awesomeness indexes and presents aesthetically awesome mobile web designs for your inspiration.
9. HTML Email Design Gallery
A popular task amongst web designers is the construction of HTML emails. For web designers looking to be inspired in the oftentimes hair-pulling-inducing activity of designing HTML emails, check out Campaign Monitor’s gallery of beautiful HTML emails.
10. The Drawar Design Gallery
Drawar, a blog by 9rules and CSSVault founder, Paul Scrivens, curates an on-site web design gallery where you can find meticulously handpicked web designs. The process of getting your site featured involves a highly sophisticated quality decision algorithm with an equally arduous submission guideline that’s best described by Scrivens himself: "You submit a site and it gets put into the system. I look at the site and if I like it then it gets moved into the Gallery."
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34 Comments
Brian Jones
July 10th, 2010
Thanks Jacob for providing these new sites!
Ian Devlin
July 10th, 2010
Good to see HTML5 Gallery included. It’s about time one of the HTML5 galleries is featured in one of these lists.
arnold
July 10th, 2010
jacob!thanks,lots of good stuff here.
some of them are unique
Ryan Bollenbach
July 10th, 2010
Really awesome article, I definitely need inspiration for the re-design of my site :D.
wildanr
July 10th, 2010
Nice collection!
KanZonk
July 10th, 2010
I strongly agree with you. Most powerful way to get inspiration is to visit many web.
(sixrevision is one of them)
Danita Becker
July 10th, 2010
Fabulous post! Creative selection, not your run of the mill website galleries at all. I’m especially intrigued by the Wireframe Showcase and Heart Directed gallery.
Curtis Scott
July 10th, 2010
Fresh indeed Jacob! Thanks for the inspirational links, I only knew about grid based.
Wireframe Showcase is my favorite as I’ve been trying to brush up on my wire-framing skills.
Oxana
July 10th, 2010
Thanks for inspiration! Nice article!
Ryan Hilton
July 10th, 2010
Great collection of sites. Especially love the Wireframe Showcase, gives good insight into the minds of other designers.
Jennifer R
July 10th, 2010
This’s a first time I heared about these gallery site, thanks you, Jacob
mmmen
July 10th, 2010
Thank Mr.Jacob .
wwebz
July 11th, 2010
Hey thanks for sharing it i had now idea about email design gallery .
Rakesh Solanki
July 11th, 2010
All gallery design are awesome specially siiimple because it is clean and simple.
ardianzzzz
July 11th, 2010
Drawar! love it :)
C. Marius
July 11th, 2010
I can’t stop being amazed by the quality of the work, excellency in photography!
Excellent,
C.Marius
Mike
July 11th, 2010
Thanks for including Wireframe Showcase!!
Jordan Walker
July 11th, 2010
Those are great places to submit designs and also find inspiration.
Eko Setiawan
July 12th, 2010
Great, this list that I need…Thanks :)
cssfaves
July 12th, 2010
you forgot http://cssfaves.com :)
Scrivs
July 12th, 2010
@Jacob: Thanks for the mention and it’s this very special algorithm that helps to keep things fresh.
@ardinazzzz: Drawar loves you.
Nick Francis
July 12th, 2010
Great collection … I’m totally subscribing to Wireframe Showcase. Also thanks for mentioning our site MobileAwesomeness.com!
Jacob Gube
July 13th, 2010
@Scrivs: Hey thanks for stopping by and also for shaking up “the system”)! Love your posts, always makes me think about things.
Nottingham
July 13th, 2010
Heart Director is my kinda thing
Matt
July 16th, 2010
Focusing on one specific element of design is a great way to carve a niche for yourself. I took this approach with my own WordPress showcase site and its paid off nicely.
Kyee
July 22nd, 2010
great post. Been meaning to update my bookmarks..
CssDsgn
July 29th, 2010
http://www.cssdsgn.com hasn’t been mentioned :(
Philip
September 14th, 2010
Add to the list 10 degrees – http://www.10degs.com
ChiTz
February 5th, 2011
http://mbuu.biz is great to
karl
March 24th, 2011
Great collection of web galleries! Thanks!
May I also suggest http://asaiment.com
It offers clean, simple and fast browsing of awesome web designs
Gary
June 21st, 2011
Great list for Web Design ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Jeffrey Dobkin
June 24th, 2011
This shows me where I am to exactly where I want to be. Still missing: the path to get there. But, I guess that’s another post. Sigh… At least I have a goal and some sites to emulate. Thank you so much – appreciate all your effort.
robin
October 12th, 2011
it is really inspirational. so helpful
Thank you
Mobile websites
October 27th, 2011
Thanks for the article..
Please add my website too the list..
http://www.mobilewebsitesubmit.com
-sara
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