45 More Excellent Blog Designs
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.
Iso50
Magazine-style, very stylish, and pretty impressive.
Wilsonminer.com
A very thought-out design with attention to little details.
Design Sponge
Scrapbook-style.
Squawk
The “paper” theme in use.
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.
Papuasia
Black and white at its best. Notice how well icons communicate information, block formatting in use.
I Heart Luxe
A shopping magazine powered by WordPress.
Plavackuv Blabolnik
Whatever it means…
Bigsweater Design
Right. Big. Sweater. And the design. And this is how the result looks like.
Spreeblick
Magazine-style design based upon WordPress.
PushStandards
Soft colors, visually appealing layout and hand-written links at the top of the page.
Brian Jeremy
Loves colors…
Jamie Knight
Meet soft and cloudy design — that’s Jamie and his Teddy.
Clean, Simple Designs
theshaun.com
Seriously cool, elegant and simple.
Experimental Designs
TechGuyTales
Office notes, paper clips and wood background. Well, what do you expect? Sarcastic design fits to sarcastic blog entries.
Qwertcity
Vivid colors. Used together, they may be not that appealing, but they just can’t be not eye-catching.
Papel Continuo
Sometihng… completely different.
Kulturbanause
The background determines the layout. You defintely haven’t ever seen a blog layout like this.
Chris Contollini
An interesting integration of Google Maps into… well, a weblog!
Ovavaho
Focus on illustrations.
Peminoz
No fresh content, but interesting graphics.
pinkyslab
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Mr. Smith
August 31st, 2008 7:37 pmTHIS IS WHAT YA GET FOR STEALING MY EMAIL NAME HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH KEEP DELETING
giuseppe
September 4th, 2008 7:09 amEccellente elenco di utilizzo Blog Design, bella esposizione.. sarà un valido punto di riferimento per la realizzazione di un nuovo . Thanks!
Joni Mueller
September 4th, 2008 5:13 pmShame 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
Business Blog Hosting
September 12th, 2008 10:26 pmnice themes
vacantday
September 17th, 2008 9:29 pmboy minor kitchen land joke
Oscar
October 1st, 2008 8:03 amBien por papel continuo.
Saludos.
Oscar
OnervenIrrark
November 9th, 2008 7:49 pmGood site! Successes in future
itatowcaniano
November 13th, 2008 5:28 pmHello, excellent site, very rich in content and correctly carefully thought out
mOveOsteort
November 15th, 2008 11:17 pmHello! Good site, simply super!
Chocksy
December 9th, 2008 2:30 pmGreat list man. I like these designs. :clap:
frogggias
January 24th, 2009 7:18 amcause/affect blog is going to make me mad:-D I love that simply style
Polly
February 4th, 2009 8:18 amWow, great designs. You better check out this blog from a Filipina designer. http://www.tonetsdaily.com/ looks chic and unique!
ryan75800
February 13th, 2009 4:33 amGreat blog theme…
pcfreak96
February 14th, 2009 2:48 amcool
zhante
April 14th, 2009 10:17 amGosh, really awesome!!!
Matt - Web Design Northampton
May 15th, 2009 7:44 amSome really great designs. Very inspiring!
Ashely Adams : Sticker Printing
June 10th, 2009 2:11 amIf 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.
Kate
October 11th, 2009 10:01 amVery sweet collection, gonna use some ideas for redesign my blog with flash elements . Especially I like designs with vector elements.
Physics toys
October 11th, 2009 11:53 pmI like the way Chris Contollini use Google Map for his blog.
MarkRight
October 21st, 2009 4:57 amNice post you got here. It would be great to read more concerning this matter.
Gabriel Pillet
December 21st, 2009 10:39 amGreat post. (sorry just testing your comment form :p)
Website Design
March 9th, 2010 8:54 amthat’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
Angel
April 29th, 2010 3:31 amnice i love this post
price action
June 4th, 2010 4:10 amVery cool list of wordpress themes.. awesum,
thanks alot.
Nial
Erdem
July 12th, 2010 4:11 amgreat stuff :-) good work!
amit
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Perl Girl
September 7th, 2010 12:44 amAdd 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
Santos Hintson
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heeso
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hayvancılık
February 23rd, 2011 7:42 amon 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.
devlet hastanesi randevu
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devlet hastane
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Brent
April 29th, 2011 8:34 amAll 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.
OMDS
May 9th, 2011 7:12 pmExquisite collection. I’m in to web designing for a while. I just hope to see more exclusive updates on blog design.
Nitesh Ahir
May 19th, 2011 10:26 pmHello 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.
sara
May 28th, 2011 6:18 pmI like this post! very interesting and informative, you provide such a excellent list of Blog design layouts. thanks for sharing this wonderful post!
Francois
June 20th, 2011 9:52 amAbsolutely 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?
prefabrik
June 30th, 2011 6:42 amAbsolutely 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?
y8
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deerink
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Paul
September 28th, 2011 4:19 amI 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?
Aron
June 8th, 2012 1:05 pmSo cool! I am gonna use them on my project at http://www.designedinseconds.com
Monica Verma
August 23rd, 2012 11:06 amWonderful collection !!!!! I really inspired by this and will definitely focus on to do some better by using this collection, in my future projects :-)
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