45 More Excellent Blog Designs

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We, designers, are creative folks. And being creative, we permanently strive for inspiration — innovative approaches, crazy ideas, smashing concepts and, in general, unique designs which can help us to observe a given problem from a fresh perspective. This is why we always have some fancy design books laying around on our desk, and this is why we enjoy observing other people’s work — basically just because we can learn a hell of a lot from them.

There are things one can do a number of times without worrying about becoming boring. For instance, collecting and showcasing excellent blog designs. In this post we do it already the third time. Why? Web design lives in blogs; new developments appear there, that’s where the music plays. And that’s where you need to look for in order to keep up with current trends and developments.

This post presents 45 excellent blog designs with a perfect layout and unique personal note. We haven’t analyzed the content of the blogs; instead we focused on ideas, approaches, graphics and layouts.

If you miss some stunning blog designs in this showcase please let us know in the comments. However, it’s also possible that these designs have already been covered in one of our previous showcases:

Excellent Blog Designs

Pat Dryburgh
Pat Dryburgh has probably one of the largest RSS-buttons ever created.

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The Risington Podcast

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Erratic Wisdom

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Iso50
Magazine-style, very stylish, and pretty impressive.

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Wilsonminer.com
A very thought-out design with attention to little details.

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Brandonmouth

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ttthings.com

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Evan Eckard

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cause/affect blog

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Design Sponge
Scrapbook-style.

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Squawk
The “paper” theme in use.

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9513 blog

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Sam Rayner

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Schneeballschlacht
Interesting not just because of two mascots, but because of a double-blog: two bloggers write together and against each other on both left and right sides of the navigation area. Interesting concept.

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Papuasia
Black and white at its best. Notice how well icons communicate information, block formatting in use.

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I Heart Luxe
A shopping magazine powered by WordPress.

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Cameron.io

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Plavackuv Blabolnik
Whatever it means…

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Bigsweater Design
Right. Big. Sweater. And the design. And this is how the result looks like.

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Toggle

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Nitram-Nunca

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Josh Spear

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Blogwhatdesign

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Spreeblick
Magazine-style design based upon WordPress.

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PushStandards
Soft colors, visually appealing layout and hand-written links at the top of the page.

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Brian Jeremy
Loves colors…

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Jamie Knight
Meet soft and cloudy design — that’s Jamie and his Teddy.

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Jeriko

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Clean, Simple Designs

theshaun.com
Seriously cool, elegant and simple.

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ExHero.de

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Tomas Marban

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Benjamin Tollady

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ManiacalRage

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Experimental Designs

TechGuyTales
Office notes, paper clips and wood background. Well, what do you expect? Sarcastic design fits to sarcastic blog entries.

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Qwertcity
Vivid colors. Used together, they may be not that appealing, but they just can’t be not eye-catching.

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Papel Continuo
Sometihng… completely different.

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Ideate

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Kulturbanause
The background determines the layout. You defintely haven’t ever seen a blog layout like this.

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Chris Contollini
An interesting integration of Google Maps into… well, a weblog!

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w3sh

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Ovavaho
Focus on illustrations.

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Peminoz
No fresh content, but interesting graphics.

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Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books.

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    Eccellente elenco di utilizzo Blog Design, bella esposizione.. sarà un valido punto di riferimento per la realizzazione di un nuovo . Thanks!

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    Shame my friend’s WordPress blog isn’t on here. He blogs a bit, but the stars of his site are his great photographs. Nice dark design that is very masculin too.

    http://www.ivovic.net

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    Business Blog Hosting

    September 12th, 2008 10:26 pm

    nice themes

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    boy minor kitchen land joke

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    Bien por papel continuo.

    Los demás blogs están espectaculares!!!!.

    Saludos.

    Oscar

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    Good site! Successes in future

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    Hello, excellent site, very rich in content and correctly carefully thought out

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    Hello! Good site, simply super!

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    Great list man. I like these designs. :clap:

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    cause/affect blog is going to make me mad:-D I love that simply style

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    Wow, great designs. You better check out this blog from a Filipina designer. http://www.tonetsdaily.com/ looks chic and unique!

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    Great blog theme…

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    Gosh, really awesome!!!

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    Matt - Web Design Northampton

    May 15th, 2009 7:44 am

    Some really great designs. Very inspiring!

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    Ashely Adams : Sticker Printing

    June 10th, 2009 2:11 am

    If blogs had been playing second fiddle to websites so far, it was largely due to design restraints. But all that is about to change. This post is testimony to the evolution blogs that have elevated them to a whole new level, almost at par with websites. Some of these blogs don’t even appear as ‘blogs’. The designs, as usual, are very good and inspiring. Thanks for the post.

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    Very sweet collection, gonna use some ideas for redesign my blog with flash elements . Especially I like designs with vector elements.

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    I like the way Chris Contollini use Google Map for his blog.

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    Nice post you got here. It would be great to read more concerning this matter.

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    Great post. (sorry just testing your comment form :p)

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    Website Design

    March 9th, 2010 8:54 am

    that’s really a fantastic post ! added to my favourite blogs list.. I have been reading your blog last couple of weeks and enjoy every bit. Thanks.Website Design

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    nice i love this post

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    price action

    June 4th, 2010 4:10 am

    Very cool list of wordpress themes.. awesum,
    thanks alot.

    Nial

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    great stuff :-) good work!

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    great information you have put in this post.Though we would all like to be able to do website designing for own website, we all aren’t able to, whether we just don’t understand the various elements or we just don’t have the time or don’t have the required expertise; the use of a top website design company is a must have. Just any website design company will not do; there are various things that can make a web design company a best web design company who will provide the exact services you need to meet the exact specifications you provide and request.

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    Add one more blogger blog in your collection its looks so awesome. Blog Name is Tech Boy Arena. URL- techboyarena.com and do check out its wallpaper Gallery its really very unique

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    on our desk, and this is why we enjoy observing other people’s work — basically just because we can learn a hell of a lot from them.

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    March 2nd, 2011 5:45 am

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    devlet hastane

    March 14th, 2011 4:01 am

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    All the themes look creative and some of them just wonderful. I am looking forward to use some of these themes in my upcoming blogs. I especially liked the theme by Papuasia. With just white and black it provides a classic and retro look. Kudos to all you guys.

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    Exquisite collection. I’m in to web designing for a while. I just hope to see more exclusive updates on blog design.

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    Hello Snev,

    Thanks for make me aware about importance of Blog Design. Its really very much important. Eye catching blog designing may be the great source for people to stay at your site long time.

    I am looking forward some Blog Design layouts. You provide such a excellent list of Blog design layouts. I like it so much and going to implement Blog design, by getting ideas out of them some very soon.

    Really cool and excellent list you providing.

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    I like this post! very interesting and informative, you provide such a excellent list of Blog design layouts. thanks for sharing this wonderful post!

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    Absolutely cool stuff here! So how do I get the code for these great sites. is it possible to download (and even pay for) them? Would really love to use some or are they copyright protected?

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    Absolutely cool stuff here! So how do I get the code for these great sites. is it possible to download (and even pay for) them? Would really love to use some or are they copyright protected?

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    les recomiendo visitar la página http://www.deerink.com se muestran varios diseños creativos e innovadores.

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    I enjoyed reading your nice blog. Congratulations, and keep posting to us. Do have some sort of email system where your blog posts emailed to me?

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    So cool! I am gonna use them on my project at http://www.designedinseconds.com

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    Wonderful collection !!!!! I really inspired by this and will definitely focus on to do some better by using this collection, in my future projects :-)
    cdndesignstudio.com

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    Exquisite collection. I’m in to web designing for a while. I just hope to see more exclusive updates on blog design.

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    Very very nice ! thanks

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    Wow… thank you so much! It’s an honour to be mentioned on here.

    Just so everyone’s aware… I’m working diligently to get my site back online… I wasn’t expecting nearly this many people coming to my site in the last little while…

    I’ll let you know when it’s back online.

    Pat

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    Nice bloglist. However (not to sound too critical), how about a list of something other than portfolios/blogs/personal sites? I’d like to see some examples of more conservative, elegant corporate sites – small businesses, realtors, travel agents, hotels, that kinda thing. Blogs are a dime a dozen, its just so rare (and I guess harder) to make a good list of business sites, which after all, are the bread and butter of any web designer.

    As much as I love grunge ink splashes and tattered frames, or glowing light tentacles, your Joe Schmo realtor rarely goes for the outrageous, and Id like to see what fresh ideas other designers come up with when they are somewhat limited in their creativity.

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    I love it!, great, really impressive work

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    cool list. thanks

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    Alika Tanaka Yarnell

    February 23rd, 2008 4:46 pm

    Nice work. I’m proud to be part of your collection. Thank you so much!
    http://www.QwertCity.com

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    boy minor kitchen land joke

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    les recomiendo visitar la página http://www.deerink.com se muestran varios diseños creativos e innovadores.

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    Wonderful collection !!!!! I really inspired by this and will definitely focus on to do some better by using this collection, in my future projects :-)
    cdndesignstudio.com

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