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The <hr>-Contest Results – Download your fresh <hr>-line now!
Three weeks ago we have encouraged our readers to participate in our <hr>-contest by designing beautiful and creative horizontal lines. It was necessary, since this design-element was slowly disappearing and was often neglected in web design. But it is going to change now. We have received 1290 images and source-files from 384 designers across the globe. The result is an impressive collection of horizontal lines that designers can use for free without any restrictions whatsoever.
Many entries contained not only images, but also source-files, mostly for Photoshop or Illustrator. You can use them if you want to modify a design for your projects. For this purpose we packed these files in one .zip-archive with all source-files (109 files, 25 Mb). Of course, it would be better to provide the link to a .zip-package next to each of the designs presented below, but it would take many hours of work which we can actually use in a more effective way. We can not guarantee that all images in the .zip-package are correct as we haven’t tested all of them.
Unfortunately, some entries could not be considered for the contest. They didn’t meet our requirements, were too big or unusable. It was important for us that these files could be used in projects beyond the scope of our contest.
[Offtopic: by the way, do you know the Smashing Network has its own Smashing Network RSS Feed? Only excerpts are displayed in the feed.]
The BIG Gallery of <hr>-Graphics
Some ideas were more popular than the other ones. For instance, a zipper, flowers and ornaments, pencils, Pac-Man, birds, scissors. You can see almost everything from geometrics designs to oriental designs. Our smashing readers show that even a small tiny line can become a piece of art. For some users it may be too much, but here the idea counts most. And you can use as a starting point for horizontal lines in your projects. Or you can use some minimalistic designs. Most designs were black/white, and few of them were pretty colorful.
Andrea Baroni
Ideas under the design: mmm….well…starting from a pencil sketch I then created the vectors in Illustrator and refined them in Photoshop.
Johannes Aagaard
Ratko Horvat
Lewis Keogh
"Igloo eyes" – Odd alien type eyes that resemble mulitcoloured igloos. Could be adapted to match the colour scheme of a site/blog.
Ray Pham
Lewis Keogh
"Noah’s arc" – As the name suggests.
Sandeep Singh
Isfahan Ashraf
Darren Northcott
Darren Northcott
Johannes Aagard
The ideas behind my 3 designs are mainly fresh and happy colours, while I love fresh colours. And I’m sure lots of other also does. But also 2 of them are a little unusual, and would fit nicely in a creative blog (in my opinion)
Jehzeel Laurente
I love to experiment and explore the astounding features of Photoshop. In my green hr entry, I tried using pen tool to create bent vectors and combine it with other objects to see what’s the outcome. In my black entry, I just tried to make it simple and elegant by creating circles, lines and label it with binary code. I think it looks boring but it’s simple and clean, perfect for websites and blogs that want simple and clean horizontal divider.
Jehzeel Laurente
Jehzeel Laurente
Cameron Queen
Jade Gordon
I was eager to try out some recently learned techniques in Photoshop. I’ve been falling for patterns and textures, and fine brush details.
Heather van de Mark
HR Ransom – Cutout letters create an hr divider that is funky and original. It is an array of colors and yet they all complement each other. This is definitely for an alternative blog/web site with humor and edge. I created multiple different backgrounds with jagged edges, so it looks as if they really came from the printed page. The graphic can easily be manipulated to cut the divider to make it longer or shorter or to rearrange the letter order. I didn’t want it to spell anything because that would be distracting.
Abhijit Sagade
I have tried to relate HR with real life observations and have tried to create simplistic visuals out of those ideas.
Abhijit Sagade
Joel Lueck
Alistair Symonds
Mihai Petica
Vincent Fromaget
Carina Kornowski
Yann Guerin
Olivier Courbet
Jeronimo Strehl
This is a shoooooooooooooort break.
Manasa Malipeddi
(the lamp) The idea of this lamp sprouted out of my own wishful thinking. I always wished (and still do) that I had better stuff to write about in my blog; posts that would enlighten somebody, and that is how I thought of a lamp representing enlightenment.
Manasa Malipeddi
(the cat)
Manasa Malipeddi
(the frightened girl) This was what I wanted to do when I realised that my new haircut looked aweful – hide behind a divider!
Manasa Malipeddi
(the knot)
Dennis Meene
Dennis Meene
Ray Pham
Geo Sukarno
Priscilla Louzada
Guilherme Baiao
Guilherme Baiao
Ardy
I have designed the HR keeping in mind the theme of nature and subtle relaxing ideas (duck in water, clouds, leaves, etc). I feel that these break the monotony of using typical HRs with straight lines. The colors used are also soft and comforting to the latest in designs. I hope you like them. We might plan on making use of the ‘cloudy HR’ within our own website which is currently undergoing major revamping. You can see a general design idea at www.anautix.com/v2
Vlad Mocanu
Ardy
Livia Radvanski
Reginald Balanga
a set of hr graphics with a theme of "Baby’s Clothesline". Inspired by my 1 year old baby boy. The graphics are in png format and is best used with white background.
Reginald Balanga
Reginald Balanga
Andrea Baroni
Peter Dzaluk
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Peter Dzaluk
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Fabienne Curty
A power cable desperately reaching for its plug.
Ardy
I have designed the HR keeping in mind the theme of nature and subtle relaxing ideas (duck in water, clouds, leaves, etc). I feel that these break the monotony of using typical HRs with straight lines. The colors used are also soft and comforting to the latest in designs. I hope you like them. We might plan on making use of the ‘cloudy HR’ within our own website which is currently undergoing major revamping. You can see a general design idea at www.anautix.com/v2
Milan van Bruggen
For the creatives: A colourful ruler with crayons.
David Laplante
Valeria Kuzminska
Valeria Kuzminska
Johannes Aagaard
The ideas behind my 3 designs are mainly fresh and happy colours, while I love fresh colours. And I’m sure lots of other also does. But also 2 of them are a little unusual, and would fit nicely in a creative blog (in my opinion)
Kyle Theisen
All of the designs were inspired by CMYK – nothing more, nothing less. I wanted to create something very simple, yet modern and fun.
Steve Lam
Ross Cooper
Ricardo Mestre
Tamer Yilmaz
Playing with <hr>…
Some designers decided to use classic motifs.
Milan van Bruggen
Nathan Lyle
Björn Rohles
After doing some research on web standards, I was surprised that none of the sites I found actually included code to create a visual representation of the topic of "web standards". I imagine it would be easy to work with the text used to code a site for design purposes (for instance, using the text "div" in the background of divs). This hr is a start to realize this approach.
Dariusz Rusin
Vernon Kesner
Driving force behind this idea was actually was a recent quarter (I think it was a quarter) I saw. On close inspection, there was actually inscription going around the outer ridge of the quarter. I actually think these turned out really cool.
Vernon Kesner
Ricardo Mestre
Vane Kosturanov
Mark MacDonald
Drawn Lines
Priyadarshi Kunal
Chris McLeod
Yiyi Zhou
I’ve always like hand-drawn designs with lots of color. The first two are meant to look somewhat like beads on a string, and the second two are just meant to be fun designs of an owl and snails.
Yiyi Zhou
Jehzeel Laurente
My pink entry was inspired with pink dirty-like brushes and cartoony buildings. My blue entry was inspired with simple blue lines in different thickness to make it look stylish, simple and creative. And my last entry was the orange arrows from splashed paint. This entry was some kinda accident. I just played around with the paint splatter brush then suddenly arrows appear in my mind and I included it.. and… I’m somewhat satisfied of the outcome.
Vernon Kesner
Driving force behind this idea was actually was a recent quarter (I think it was a quarter) I saw. On close inspection, there was actually inscription going around the outer ridge of the quarter. I actually think these turned out really cool.
Vernon Kesner
Sandeep Singh
Stig Greve
Dominik Felber
Dominik Felber
Eric White
Brian Litzinger
I didn’t have a lot of time to invest in making these HRs, so the first idea that came to mind is what you see. I have no clue if this has been done before…
Brian Litzinger
Brian Litzinger
Abhijit Kumar
Prijadarshi Kunal
Prijadarshi Kunal
Jeronimo Strehl
No, this isn’t the end – just a little break…
Jeronimo Strehl
Ok – this is the end, the post is finished – so, get unppluged and go outside.
Cheng Kam Wang
Thin Lines
These ones can be used for body copy.
Eva Hellmann
Eva Hellmann
Christoph Bach
Zsolt Kocsmarszky
Christina Böhme
Petar Pavlov
Christoph Bach
Cameron Queen
This is just a design I’ve been playing around with for my own site and thought I’d interpret it for this competition as it’s an avenue I haven’t explored with my ‘donut’ graphics until now.
Arthur Rehm
Aren Lavilla
Vane Kosturanov
Nour Malaeb
Equalizer: Another musical-themed design for a more minimalist blog.
Nour Malaeb
Moustache: Just a fun design for hair-themed blogs, or perhaps a blog for gentlemen. Or the Monopoly guy.
Amer Aidi
Dariusz Rusin
Dariusz Rusin
Black & White
Jehzeel Laurente
I love to experiment and explore the astounding features of Photoshop. In my green hr entry, I tried using pen tool to create bent vectors and combine it with other objects to see what’s the outcome. In my black entry, I just tried to make it simple and elegant by creating circles, lines and label it with binary code. I think it looks boring but it’s simple and clean, perfect for websites and blogs that want simple and clean horizontal divider. My pink entry was inspired with pink dirty-like brushes and cartoony buildings. My blue entry was inspired with simple blue lines in different thickness to make it look stylish, simple and creative. And my last entry was the orange arrows from splashed paint. This entry was some kinda accident. I just played around with the paint splatter brush then suddenly arrows appear in my mind and I included it.. and… I’m somewhat satisfied of the outcome.
Wojciech Slowacki
The birds sitting on a wire are a common sight when you travel between one place and another, so you can say the image of birds separates different places. That’s why I thought it could also separate content as a <hr /> background
Wojciech Slowacki
A cowboy riding off into the sunset – thats a good scene for an ending, so I thought it would be a fitting image for an ending of a post on some blog.
Nathan Lyle
Alistair Symonds
Richard Stellmach
Vlad Mocanu
The general ideea of my images is a modest desire to reinvent the magic of 2D geometry. We live in a world that has forgotten the place it rose from … unfortunately …
Dennis Meene
Jon Lucas
Nathan Kelly
Dominik Felber
Vane Konsturanov
While I was reading the <hr/> contest post on Smashing a couple of ideas came on my mind. This is what came out.
Marcin Dembek
Michael Koloch
A tribute to osvaldo cavandoli’s "la linea" cartoon i watched since i was 3 or 4 years old.
Loveena Rayan
Emanuel Felipe
Anggun Pribadi
Amber Slooten
The reason I created a <hr /> like this, was because I personally like silhouettes of women. I thought it was a lot of refreshment. There wansn’t really any inspiration source: It just hit me.
Jens Fiedler
The first designs was forced through an old Mockup for my own portfolio, i liked the idea of usual things for the website functions, so i wanted to make them all look "real"… and the contest, reminds of it, so i made an zipper to make an remindable hr graphic.
Olivier Courbet
Andrea Baroni
Ideas under the design: mmm….well…starting from a pencil sketch I then created the vectors in Illustrator and refined them in Photoshop.
This three themes are pretty naturalistic and on the cute-side I think…
Nothing so risky in the end, but I hope enjoyable and unusual.
Fabienne Curty
A horizontal crack in a wall, with a pair of scary eyes staring out – this <hr /> would fit into grungy layouts.
Fabienne Curty
A horizontally torn paperstrip that’s being held together by staples and clips – this <hr /> would fit into papery layouts.
Sonali Vora
Jim Hargreaves
Elegance meets wit…a classic design for journalistic blogging.
Jim Hargreaves
Jim Hargreaves
Jim Hargreaves
Stephan Hilbelink
Stephan Hilbelink
Daan Weijers
Giacomo Boccardo
Ehren Harber
Ehren Harber
Mario Santos
My inspiration on the firts model/set is to have an end identifier on each part of site/text, nothing like a bar code.
Mario Santos
Abstract and Creative Ideas
Was nicht in die vorigen Rubriken passte…
Cornelius Dorgan
Lewis Keogh
"Contemporary bubbles" – Witches cauldron with a modern twist.
Lewis Keogh
"What now" – Working along the lines of, now that the article above has finished what is to follow – as if a line hr break could think.
Rob MacKay
Casey Smith
Elena Plyusnina
Gavin Steele
My clean and simple designs…. its about the content, as a decoration the Hr should not draw the eye away from the content.
Tiffany Pilgrim
This a play-off of the classic ornate divider, but this time hand sketched and with the pencil shavings left behind.
Zivko Condiv
Francesca Culatti
Francesca Culatti
Abhijit Sagade
I have tried to relate HR with real life observations and have tried to create simplistic visuals out of those ideas.
Abhijit Sagade
Ratko Horvat
Dennis Meene
Ratko Horvat
Tobias Goth
So what drove me to do make this blood dripping <HR>? My addiction with the Showtime tv-series Dexter of course. I’m a sucker for the intro that rolls at the beginning of every episode. Here’s my adaptation of it into a horizontal ruler.
Alex Holt
Is a background image that should be right aligned…
Subtle, stacked paper design to break the page elegantly.
Tammy Hart
Tammy Hart
Vane Konsturanov
Vane Konsturanov
Vane Konsturanov
Lance Gililand
Lance Gililand
Aren Lavilla
Ehren Harber
Nathan Kelly
Regina Silva
Rubens Cantuni
it’s inspired by the fable "Le petit poucet" bu Charles Perrault. This lil kid leaves pebbles behind is walk to find the way back to home, until one day he can’t find any pebbles so he left crumbs, but birds ate them all…
Rubens Cantuni
a ninja running fast leave a trail of dust behind him
Rubens Cantuni
realistic tear repaired with sticky-tape and staples.
Charles Bamam
Guilherme Baiao
Guilherme Baiao
Katya Shulzhenko
Text-style divider says "this is the end" without using brain
Stephan Hilbelink
Fouad Badawy
Alex Souto
My theme for the competition is the mouse! This terrible but necessary element of those working on the computer.
Prijadarshi Kunal
Sergio Ruiz
Fabienne Curty
ECG – The typical ECG measuring curve, spiced up with a cute heart in the center.
Carina Kornowski
Anne Douglas
Anca Holostencu
During the creation of the HR lines, I thought about fluid shapes and a subtle blending in the overall page design. The lines are meant to incite the reader and make her/him complete the nice feeling regarding what she/he read so far and continue with the next chapter.
Victor Fedyuk
Joro Yordanov
Ardy
I have designed the HR keeping in mind the theme of nature and subtle relaxing ideas (duck in water, clouds, leaves, etc). I feel that these break the monotony of using typical HRs with straight lines. The colors used are also soft and comforting to the latest in designs. I hope you like them. We might plan on making use of the ‘cloudy HR’ within our own website which is currently undergoing major revamping.
Maria Paula Figueroa
Adrian Pauly
hr-branch was more of a decorative approach, taking the usual decorative squiggles as a parting point, but rendering it as a much more natural organic element.
Mihai Petica
Thank you!
We would like to express sincere gratitude to each of designers who participated in our contest! Further contest are already on their way. Please stay tuned.
So who is the winner of the contest?
We selected 25 designs which we liked most. Of course, the choice is subjective, but we had to choose the best ones. Please don’t feel angry if you have some other opinion.
Each design has a number assigned to it. Everybody can vote for his or her favourite design. You decide who is the winner of our contest and who will be awarded with a Wacom Intuos3 9X12 USB Tablet displayed below. The poll will be closed in 4 days. The design with most votes will be awarded with the prize.
25 Finalists
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Vote for your favourite design!
The Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books. Runs the business.
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September 9th, 2008 2:18 pmI don’t really know but I think the #8 is really fun (even if the #7 looks really cool).
Thanks for sharing your great work. :) - 3September 9th, 2008 2:22 pm
i like these lines.Very very beautiful.maybe i can use it
- 4September 9th, 2008 2:23 pm
imressive ! Thank you all for giving me those lines, hehe :)
- 5September 9th, 2008 2:24 pm
i just say: wao!
- 6September 9th, 2008 2:28 pm
Hi!
Are those all of the lines you received? Or did you just uploaded the ones you thought where best?
I can’t see any of mine and I’m concerned that you might have not received them. =S
Good luck finalists! =D - 7September 9th, 2008 2:29 pm
This is seriously weird. The submission under #7 had 39 votes when I started reading this entry and by the time I had scrolled down and up again (took about 30 seconds) it already had 43 votes. And this does not look as cool as some other hr lines..
I am not suggesting anything + am I did not submit anything myself, so I am not trying to bash competition, but still.. weird, as it is clearly not SO great piece.
- 8September 9th, 2008 2:40 pm
Where’s mine!?
O_O - 9September 9th, 2008 2:40 pm
I agree that some of them aren’t so great … but this is personal choice, so vote and we’ll see what people really think ! The #7 is not so bad ..
- 10September 9th, 2008 2:44 pm
In my opinion the HRs you chose for the “25 contest” are quite horrible and/or old style, while I prefer many of the others.
I really don’t understand your criterion. - 11September 9th, 2008 2:45 pm
I have to agree with Jhack ..
- 12September 9th, 2008 2:46 pm
Yeah, I agree with you Silver. Its really not good, yet it’s in the lead…
Pacman ftw - 13September 9th, 2008 2:47 pm
very baaaaaaaaaaaad choices ,
most of them are stolen .
i won’t vote on this rubbish.. - 14September 9th, 2008 2:49 pm
silver sova your comment is one of the most depressing things iv read recently, ts ts ts.
grats to all for those beautiful artworks
- 15September 9th, 2008 2:53 pm
@someone v.friendly :): if you think that most of them are stolen, please post the links where we can find them, but before you should check if the websites you are referring to belong to the authors of the lines :).
- 16September 9th, 2008 2:56 pm
well, I’m a finalist… I’ll never win, but it’s ok… :D
- 17September 9th, 2008 3:03 pm
wow. AWESOME work. I chose #7 :)
- 18September 9th, 2008 3:06 pm
it seems like i was rejected. anyway I would be very happy if at least one human on earth would use one of them once in the time, so: my conest entry – source files are also linked
grats to the nice works:) - 19September 9th, 2008 3:31 pm
I love Ray Pham’s parked sneakers. nice little statement
- 20September 9th, 2008 3:31 pm
Question to SVEN, were HRs done in pencil out of the question? or were they supposed to be imported and vectorized?
- 21September 9th, 2008 3:36 pm
I think you should random the poll options. I don´t know, but it seems to me the ones from the “top” are most popular.
I loved #9, #10 and #16 - 22September 9th, 2008 3:39 pm
Dang. I totally forgot about the contest and I had a design very similar to #7 (which happens to be in the lead), just with stitches across it. Oh well, great job everyone on the designs. There were so many good ones! I think my second fave are the Pacman and simple dots with the hr tag.
- 23September 9th, 2008 3:41 pm
This is purely for a need of a constructive criticism but can I get some suggestions on what I could’ve done to get chosen? My reasoning behind the design was that hr is a separator but of related contents since they’re in the same page. So I thought hr should separate and relate at the same time. Great selections by the way. I love the tentacle one.
- 24September 9th, 2008 3:46 pm
People in the States, especially in the cities, might have seen this… but perhaps not in Europe? Anyways, grats to the Top 25. :)
- 25September 9th, 2008 3:53 pm
Wow. I think the idea behind this contest is really cool. This blog has been a smashing success, and its number of subscribers is a direct reflection of the significant number of people it is able to reach as a result. That alone allows for a ton of diversity, which means less limits! I think that’s great. This contest in particular is neat because it offers designers a chance to participate in something creative, provides an incentive for doing so and in the end it adds an amazing resource of new graphics for all the web to discover and utilize. Thumbs up.
- 26September 9th, 2008 3:57 pm
I’m a little sad that files were “too big”, I know I checked for size requirements, and tried to keep things relatively minimal.
A lot of these are just great! I almost wish it were manageable to have a series of votes on all the submissions!
- 27September 9th, 2008 4:07 pm
Yeah, these are all pretty retarded. I don’t see placing a background imagine in an HR tag as being all that creative.
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- 29September 9th, 2008 4:40 pm
Go, Pacman, go!
- 30September 9th, 2008 4:46 pm
I’m actually kinda disappointed with the selected finalist… there are alot of quality hr’s that were not selected
- 31September 9th, 2008 4:48 pm
I think a few of the Top 25 were okay… but the rest were VERY amateurish. Quite disappointed considering this IS the site for design inspiration.
- 32September 9th, 2008 4:48 pm
I don’t agree with the chosen ones. I will not vote on them.
- 33September 9th, 2008 5:15 pm
Yeah, I have to agree with others…there were many other submissions that should have made it in the top 25 and some others in the top 25 that should have been omitted. Its subjective but there is a distinguishable difference in some of the designs that were left behind. (I didn’t submit a design)
I also noticed the heavy selection of #7 which I thought was “ok” comparatively. But 25% of all votes?? Either I’m losing my creative abilities and missing something about the design, or there has been some good word of mouth by the designer, or someone figured out how to remove cookies (like with a browser extension) and re-voted repeatedly.
- 34September 9th, 2008 5:41 pm
I think the best thing that all the people which agree that many of the selected finalist are extremely worst that a great part of the other submissions is to vote “I don’t know” as I did. I’d like to see what would happen if that option would win :).
- 35September 9th, 2008 5:51 pm
I can’t believe #7 got picked but none of my “torn” HR’s got picked or even shown. Boo :(
- 36September 9th, 2008 5:56 pm
From the file ‘zip-archive with all source-files’ I saved 9 and trashed 100.
- 37September 9th, 2008 5:57 pm
Most of them are terrible.
- 38September 9th, 2008 6:19 pm
#7 it’s very easy to vote repeatedly on his own design.
Where is the creativity in the #8?- 39November 13th, 2009 8:32 am
I just voted for #7 simply because it popped out, a cool concept well achieved
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- 40September 9th, 2008 6:21 pm
Lines!
- 41September 9th, 2008 6:26 pm
I’m very disappointed with SM.
- 42September 9th, 2008 6:32 pm
I love most of them, cool!
- 43September 9th, 2008 6:32 pm
i like 3 and 9 but i thought a lot of the other ones below the finalists were better than some of the finalists, Rubens Cantuni has a really nice style, so does Ehren Harber – i liked Mihai Petici’s torn through to the code idea as well (maybe with less drop shadow though)
- 44September 9th, 2008 6:33 pm
i hope i can use them in my web design.
- 45September 9th, 2008 6:37 pm
What a great contest! You guys rule, looking forward to the next contest! Good luck guys!
- 46September 9th, 2008 6:39 pm
Those were all really fun to look through. Great job to everyone who submitted stuff. I’m impressed.
- 47September 9th, 2008 6:53 pm
increible, enrealidad nunca habia considerado el poder del
muy buena coleccion. - 48September 9th, 2008 7:03 pm
Though I do think all the finalists’ approaches are pretty creative,
I think there are better ones in the selection beneath! - 49September 9th, 2008 7:44 pm
This competition was a very creative one. I do hope that next time you’ll have a link that can show all entries so that all those artists who’d joined can view their entries just to confirm that you’ve received them- just like that of topcoder, logosauce etc.-just a suggestion.
I remember you(Smashing Magazine) mentioned”Be creative, use unusual techniques, explore your skills, do whatever it takes — we’d like you to get really excited about it.” I just like to know where is the creativity in #8 :) and some of the entries which were mere lines! hahaha
Goodluck!
- 50September 9th, 2008 8:40 pm
I like how all the <hr>’s are are displayed as images and not as an <hr> element.
Nonetheless great job!
- 51September 9th, 2008 9:06 pm
very nice, but i must say some entries on the top 25 are so-so. there are other designs that didn’t make it to the 25 spots that’s way better. i joined the contest, i admit mine were not picked, but it’s ok.
oh, i just wanna say that voting on your poll can be cheated i guess, i tried to clear my cookies, history, refreshed then voila i can vote again. geez.. why is that? #7 may have been refreshing and voting nonstop for his entry (lol), no offense meant his design is ok but there are other designs on the list that’s far better than #7.
cheers to the finalist.
- 52September 9th, 2008 9:09 pm
relax people! Even though I dislike some of the entries that went onto the final stage, I respect the decision and fully understand the fact that it was a “subjective” decision; it is nearly impossible to make it objective, and that’s fine! it isnt meant to be so. I think it’s best to abstain oneself from saying “they were pretty retarded choices” or “they all look crappy” or whatnot. #7 ftw!
- 53September 9th, 2008 9:14 pm
Some ok ones, it’s a bit hard to really make the hr look THAT good…
- 54September 9th, 2008 10:16 pm
oh, i love the last one by Mihai Petica, too bad it didn’t make it into the final 25..
- 55September 9th, 2008 10:17 pm
some finalists did’t deserve it
- 56September 9th, 2008 10:21 pm
Too many of these make me feel like I’m visiting some 1997 geocities webpage. >_>
- 57September 9th, 2008 10:28 pm
Great contest. I think the purpose was to get everybody excited and get the creative juices of the web community flowing. And look! Now there’s tons of ideas for hr tags to draw inspiration from! Hooray!
- 58September 9th, 2008 10:33 pm
Too bad mine didn’t get listed. :(
- 59September 9th, 2008 10:48 pm
I like them all! Althought I wouldn’t have chosen those 25 ones as the top ones (but yeah, tastes…).
And it’s hard to chose something without context. For example the sewing needles by Regina Silva and Ehren Harber are great and would be perfect on a sewing site, but maybe not on another kind of site. (unless there’s a ‘fabric’ style on all the page maybe).
The #5, #6 and #7 are some really nice entries. Hard to chose, I went for #7 because it’s funny to imagine a monster lurking under the webpage :)
But I think my favorite is the autumn branches by Adrian Pauly.
- 60September 9th, 2008 10:48 pm
I like 4th because of simple and good looking, 7th is realy original and creative, it catches the eye, thats why it has lots of votes
- 61September 9th, 2008 10:55 pm
i like 11th design very much because it’s shows life with happy note…. something that sets good mood.
- 62September 9th, 2008 11:05 pm
some better ones should have been listed…
like mine… - 63September 9th, 2008 11:14 pm
great idea! thank
- 64September 9th, 2008 11:15 pm
:(
- 65September 9th, 2008 11:30 pm
Welcome back to the frontpage era. When are the paper backgrounds comming?
Hey let’s do a <table>-design contest! - 66September 9th, 2008 11:38 pm
Nice submissions, i’ll stick with #3, the toaster
Great job everyone! - 67September 9th, 2008 11:53 pm
my hr is not here….
- 68September 9th, 2008 11:58 pm
These works are really very awesome. But you don’t have to choose the best ones. You should leave this job to us as visitors. So no one would feel angry.
- 69September 10th, 2008 12:20 am
wow, creative stuff!! i am very impressed!
- 70September 10th, 2008 12:27 am
Definitely one of the best resources collection on Smashing Magazine! Congratulations to all the contributors: well done!
- 71September 10th, 2008 12:28 am
OMG, this was so refreshing :) Make more contests like this please :)
- 72September 10th, 2008 12:44 am
wow this is realy nice collection … good job!
well I miss hr from Ratko Horvat in list of 25 best of … i realy like it :)thanx for post and keep on going …. :)
- 73September 10th, 2008 12:45 am
Huu, that was a little disappointing – I was actually expecting some more unsual weird freaky fresh stuff – instead it looks a little bit like a 90’s-web-clipart-cd … but I like #7, looks like real fun in the right context!
- 74September 10th, 2008 12:46 am
tentacles! :D
#7 !
- 75September 10th, 2008 12:48 am
My fave was the crack in the wall with the scary eyes, but that didn’t make the shortlist!! :-(
I voted for #4. - 76September 10th, 2008 12:49 am
I love most of them but, Just look @ the #11….Great Work Bro…
- 77September 10th, 2008 12:54 am
antoher amazing list! thanks for sharing!
- 78September 10th, 2008 12:58 am
what a huge collection of contributions!
Remarkable: quite a lot of designs with green, nature, grass, leave-things - 79September 10th, 2008 1:17 am
“Too many of these make me feel like I’m visiting some 1997 geocities webpage. >_>”
Spot on…….
: ( - 80September 10th, 2008 1:26 am
what a fantastic collection!! thanks to all you guys for some great creations!!!
- 81September 10th, 2008 1:27 am
this is a quite inspiring post. really impressive what one can make out of a simple hr. thanks a lot!
- 82September 10th, 2008 1:28 am
“Too many of these make me feel like I’m visiting some 1997 geocities webpage. >_>”
Agreed :/Most of the ones I liked aren’t in the top 25.. And I can’t see why some of the ones which are in the top 25 made it, they look like something I used when i was 8 for my first site O_O
- 83September 10th, 2008 1:41 am
Although they are all great and original looking designs, I think some of these are simply too big for what they’re meant to be used for. My vote goes to #8
- 84September 10th, 2008 1:56 am
You see? This is what I hate about competitions…I always feel that people who desrve to win never do. Dont get me wrong, Im not saying anyone’s work is ugly in fact most of them are just too beautiful and inspiring but I think there are some designs that should have not been on the top 25 and some that are there dont really deserve to be there. Number seven is really cool, but I think theres much nicer hr designs that ought to be winning the prize and I think a lot of people and designers would agree. (OR NOT)
- 85September 10th, 2008 2:05 am
Absolutely amazing results, one of the best postings ever on SM.
Thanks to all designers for so many great inspirations! - 86
- 87September 10th, 2008 2:53 am
Great job guys :D
No 25 FTW! :D
- 88September 10th, 2008 3:03 am
very impressive! what can you do with a tiny line..
- 89September 10th, 2008 3:37 am
Nice job Abhijit!!
- 90September 10th, 2008 4:11 am
HR is a very delicate subject !
- 91September 10th, 2008 4:20 am
I am smashed. My design did not get picked. Boo hoo!
Never mind, This is an amazing and creative group of graphics. It should remind us all that as designers we can take the most mundane and overlooked thing and turn it in to something beautiful. Great job! - 92September 10th, 2008 4:44 am
Where’s mine?
My idea is very similar to three of the finalists, and they don’t show it!. Maybe because I made it with open source software and gave him a SVG file (which is an open and standard format) and not a PSD file which is not standard and not open to everyone who don’t have the money to pay for the Adobe Suite…
Bad SM, bad…
- 93September 10th, 2008 5:12 am
#7 is excellent, but I think it wont work when used
- 94September 10th, 2008 5:13 am
All the entries are amazing! But I do think that some of the entries that have made it to the top 25 are not as good as some that have not. Kudos to everyone who has worked so hard on beautifying one simple line.
- 95September 10th, 2008 5:15 am
I’ve been thinking about a tentacle inspired redesign, so I voted for #7. :)
- 96September 10th, 2008 5:16 am
Nice, but how about browser safe CSS for displaying the with a transparent PNG ? Any suggestions?
#content hr { background-image:url(../elements/box_olive_hr.png); }
Here, IE6 is lacking…
- 97September 10th, 2008 5:19 am
#5 … classic…
- 98September 10th, 2008 5:53 am
I like the mihai patica one the best, u see what’s underneath the page. :)
But the Ninja one isnt correct, Ninja’s dont leave trails.
- 99September 10th, 2008 6:07 am
12 ;)
- 100September 10th, 2008 6:20 am
Thanks for showing mine, even though it’s not a finalist. It was a very pleasant surprise.
I have to agree with @Jo that a lot of these look exactly like clip art/imgs that existed when I was web designing in the mid-90s (things like zippers/stitches, birds on a line, pac man etc. i loved jim hargreaves, ive never seen anything like that before and it is beautiful and would be a strong addition to a design, not just a novelty.
- 101September 10th, 2008 6:34 am
A lot of these designs aren’t bad! I liked the following and find them very usable:
Ray Pham’s sneakers, Ricardo Mestre’s tentacles, Nour Malaeb’s equalizer, Eva Hellman’s birds on a wire, Ehren Harber’s needle and tape, Tammy Heart’s flower/lily, Vane Konsturanov’s pencil, Adrian Pauly’s autumn branch.
- 102September 10th, 2008 6:39 am
My favorite would have to be the created by Olivier Courbet. It’s the one with the figure that appears to be holding the content on his back. Clean, simple, very well done.
- 103September 10th, 2008 6:39 am
Not my Top25… anyways, congratulations to the selected ones :P
Voted for nr.8 :)
- 104September 10th, 2008 6:50 am
#7 is the best!-.
- 105September 10th, 2008 6:52 am
Voted for #8 – of the selected 25, it’s the only one I would actually want to use.
As for some of the other finalists, IMO the designs are way too large and colorful, and therefore would be too much of a distraction if actually used to divide content. Taking up <100px of space just for a divider is not effective nor efficient design. For me, HR is an organizational tool to divide space and should not draw attention away from the content it is supposed to organize.
- 106September 10th, 2008 7:36 am
awww.. I didn’t even get featured in the whole post..
Looks like my design is very elementary and needs lots of practice :(
but great job everyone! :)
- 107September 10th, 2008 7:36 am
I have to agree with a lot of the other people here. I had to vote for “I don’t know” as none of the ones I like made it into the Top 25.
Ah, well, everyone has their own opinion.
Congratulations to all the finalists and a big thank you to all who submitted.
- 108September 10th, 2008 7:50 am
Initially I was bemused at the idea of an HR contest, but it produced so many amazing images that my confidence is now restored. I should have entered! Regardless, a very pleasing little gallery was produced here. Nice work, everyone!
- 109September 10th, 2008 7:52 am
Thanks for selecting my entry in the top 25. …. :)
Its at no. 22 - 110September 10th, 2008 7:59 am
These remind me of the 90’s. The only thing missing is an under construction jackhammer dude.
- 111September 10th, 2008 8:15 am
Well i really like your site, but those hrs are some kind of boring…
- 112September 10th, 2008 8:18 am
For a web design page, having a voting system where you choose a design, note it’s number, then mark the radio button next to it’s number is pretty silly.
- 113September 10th, 2008 8:28 am
It’s very easy to cheat the polls, though. You don’t even have to clear cookies o do any kind of hacking, you just refresh the page and it will ask you to vote again! : (
- 114September 10th, 2008 8:57 am
Why did you choose these as the finalists? Surely there were some above them that should have been chosen (ie: Johannes Aagard, Jade Gordon, Ardy, Livia Radvanski, Jehzeel Laurente, Aren Lavilla, Wojciech Slowacki, Alistair Symonds, Giacomo Boccardo, Ehren Harber, Cornelius Dorgan, Lewis Keogh, Abhijit Sagade, Vane Konsturanov, Tammy Hart, Rubens Cantuni, Sergio Ruiz, etc.).
- 115September 10th, 2008 8:59 am
Yeah, a lot of these are kind of ridiculous. In a bad way. I like the Pac-Man.
- 116September 10th, 2008 9:02 am
great hr’s.. wish I submitted one.
- 117September 10th, 2008 9:21 am
Why is there a voting option “I don’t know”? That’s just silly.
Well done to the entrants. I didn’t even get round to finishing my entry!
- 118September 10th, 2008 10:11 am
I like the pacman line, i especially like the soft tones on it, which makes eyes feel good.
- 119September 10th, 2008 10:12 am
I’m sorry to be critical but a lot of these look like free Publisher clipart. The best HRs as far as technique, usability, and originality are not even in the top 25. I did not submit, so this is not sour grapes. I’m just disappointed in your choices for the published entrants and finalists.
- 120September 10th, 2008 10:20 am
some are quite funny and unique
…others… no offense… make you think: “i know why it gets out of fashion…”
but it depends on the content they are used in
so, nice collection - 121September 10th, 2008 10:25 am
Nice posts, and will come in handy for some inspiration. I’m disappointed that my favourite Mihai Petica’s <hr> didn’t make the finals. Oh well, so be it.
Competition in art is never the final say on the best. It’s too subjective. So I don’t get why people are getting so excited about the poll. Must be the prize!!
- 122September 10th, 2008 10:42 am
Yah, a bunch of the ones they chose for the finalists are terribad. But of course, it’s their choice, not yours or mine.
- 123September 10th, 2008 10:55 am
7! is creative
- 124September 10th, 2008 11:27 am
Most of them look so démodé.
- 125September 10th, 2008 11:30 am
many of the winners look like clip art… a boldly outlined cat??? really? (no offense)
- 126September 10th, 2008 11:39 am
Some of these reminds me of default themes in old Frontpage.
- 127September 10th, 2008 11:41 am
To the commenters who use words like “terrible”: Would you say that to the artist’s face? Imagine showing somebody one of your designs and having them say it’s terrible. How would you feel?
- 128September 10th, 2008 11:41 am
I’m very disappointed with the results. Too bad for SM reputation.
- 129September 10th, 2008 12:18 pm
7 is excellent, but I think the lovely detailed Ninja hr should have made it in!
- 130September 10th, 2008 12:26 pm
muy buenos los diseños de los concursantes
- 131September 10th, 2008 12:50 pm
If only #7 wouldn’t be that, hmm, bulky – I would’ve definitely gone for that one. That being the case, I voted on #8
- 132September 10th, 2008 12:51 pm
I created #8. Reading a lot of comments about it. Thnx for the positive ones. For those who don’t like it. I created it so people could use it. Sorry if you find it boring/not creative, but for those of you that plan using it: Please let me know. I’d like to see it in action :)
Drop me a line at: milanvanbruggen.nl - 133September 10th, 2008 12:59 pm
I voted for #7. What does bulky mean, by the way?
- 134September 10th, 2008 1:12 pm
my vote goes to #8, i love the minimalistic style.
- 135September 10th, 2008 1:14 pm
i vote for #7, one of the coolest web drawings i ever seen. Thanks for making this kind of contest.
- 136September 10th, 2008 1:22 pm
I vote for #2 desing … the desing of Carina Kornowski
- 137September 10th, 2008 1:30 pm
Back to the 90’s! A few looks great, but I didn’t find even one that I could have any use for (at least not as they are).
- 138September 10th, 2008 2:33 pm
Awesome – I’m loving #7 – great feel to it and I recon it’d look nice in the context of a lot of content. Great contest idea as well – I’m really diggin some of the results :) http://www.makedesignnotwar.com
- 139September 10th, 2008 2:35 pm
7 is quite lovely :D
- 140September 10th, 2008 2:37 pm
did you really upload every design? there are so many garbage ones in there that are eating up space and wasting my time.
- 141September 10th, 2008 2:58 pm
That´s really a wonderful pack! All should be winners.
- 142September 10th, 2008 3:50 pm
Ok, I really dont understand why you packed all the source files I send into the zip with others but you didnt show any of my entries here? Thats really not fair.
Everyone, the biggest mess in the zip are my source files, sorry but I send files for S. to see Im the author, not for you to guess whats that shoe doing there. I didnt zip them to follow rules & I know it looks stupid. Its my first contest and I thought only the final files will be shared.
Anyway, I hope it was just a mistake and my files get to be shown here, if they are good enough to share they should be good enough to show. Thanks S.
- 143September 10th, 2008 3:56 pm
Have to agree with a lot of the comments that state “meh” above. I wouldn’t use any of the HR lines chosen. Sorry Smashing Mag, this contest has turned out to be not up to your usual Smashing greatness.
- 144September 10th, 2008 6:09 pm
18 is cute!
- 145September 10th, 2008 6:13 pm
What licence are these released under?
- 146September 10th, 2008 7:24 pm
Some of them are bulky and ugly. I’m sure you received better ones in the 1290 pack that you should show.
- 147September 10th, 2008 7:28 pm
Maybe you got tired from seeing so much lines, and gave up on them.
- 148September 10th, 2008 8:05 pm
Ratko Horvat is the real “The Line”!
- 149September 10th, 2008 8:13 pm
after HR, we should so do LI
- 150September 10th, 2008 8:25 pm
Voted! It was tough picking one out of all the entries and even tougher picking one out of the 25 finalists. Too bad Manasa Malipeddi’s frightened girl wasn’t a finalist, that was my fave!
- 151September 10th, 2008 9:22 pm
One of the greatest contest here ever! :D I vote for pacman
- 152September 10th, 2008 9:27 pm
#5 & #7 awesome, can be use with any design……..
- 153September 10th, 2008 9:49 pm
I hate to be a negative Nelly, but most of these are pretty garish and scream 1996; they’re hardly good examples of effective design. The examples in the original post are much better than almost all of these.
I sure hope this contest is at least a little tongue-in-cheek. What’s next, animated GIF contest? If so, I’ll get right to work on dancing hamsters…I’ll be a shoo-in.
- 154September 10th, 2008 10:16 pm
Great collection is there any problem in using them?
- 155September 10th, 2008 10:27 pm
#7 Stop voting on yourself.
- 156September 10th, 2008 10:44 pm
Very simple and soothing designs by Abhijit Sagade. Great Job!
- 157September 10th, 2008 11:02 pm
WOW… awesome designs.. very creative…
i vote for #11 and #7… - 158September 10th, 2008 11:18 pm
Loads of creativity here! I loved #4
- 159September 11th, 2008 12:15 am
whoa … kooooools :)
- 160September 11th, 2008 12:47 am
wow
big gratz to all designers
great talent here - 161September 11th, 2008 1:09 am
Det var bra skapelser!
- 162September 11th, 2008 1:41 am
Number 7!! very cool…. also I liked some of the stitches ideas althought non of them was from the final 25.
- 163September 11th, 2008 2:13 am
really nice post, thanks ^^
- 164September 11th, 2008 2:17 am
i don’t see Ray Pham in the final list :/ that’s a pitty
The sneakers are great! Good job! - 165September 11th, 2008 3:13 am
wow this is great! :D even if i didn’t make it to top 25 i’m still happy that my works are mentioned up there! woHOOoooooo!
P.S.: i voted for the 7th finalist because it’s simply awesome :)
- 166September 11th, 2008 3:43 am
I found eight of them to be absolutely amazing. None of those eight made the final 25 though. Strange.
- 167September 11th, 2008 4:48 am
wonderful!! veeeeeeery nice ideas.. thanks to all…
i’m sad.. i need to learn mooooooore to reach a similar level..
thanks again :) - 168September 11th, 2008 5:56 am
for Three reason i liked the 4th one because it solves the purpose of HR, 1) soothing design, 2) light weight & 3) increases readability if text around it
i agree #7 used more creativity but not solving the readability as per Usability point of view… :(
Santosh
- 169September 11th, 2008 6:10 am
#1 Is great. Simple and effective. You don’t want something that is overbearing – after all it is is just a hr-line…
- 170September 11th, 2008 6:57 am
I don’t think any of these deserve the prize..
- 171September 11th, 2008 7:14 am
The poll is to easy to fake! Not very
good quality, for a page like this one.
I wouldn’t trust the results. Sad but true.Anyway … I like Nr. 19. It’s creative. :)
- 172September 11th, 2008 7:28 am
These lines are soooo beautiful! It’s impossibile to choose only one winner!!!
- 173September 11th, 2008 7:37 am
Tough crowd!
Ended up voting for 8 – elegant enough to actually use. I also liked 12 (cute) but like most people I couldn’t imagine actually using many of these in this decade. But made me smile anyway.
Jim Hargreaves work made me want to open an editor and incorporate it into a design.
Thanks to all those who were brave enough to give it a go – without your effort we would all be looking at whitespace.
- 174September 11th, 2008 7:48 am
I think about 3 of these are good. The rest are pretty damn average.
- 175September 11th, 2008 10:50 am
Goddamn Ratko Horvat should have won this one. =D
- 176September 11th, 2008 11:12 am
Ummmmm….. the “top” 25 are really bad. I can’t vote for any of them, because they’re all just…. bad :-( I can’t believe none of the ones by Jehzeel Laurente or Darren Northcott got picked.
Seriously, whoever the judge was on this really can’t recognize good design at all. Glad I didn’t submit my ideas.
- 177September 11th, 2008 1:16 pm
The judges are not Designers, they are developers.
- 178September 11th, 2008 1:18 pm
#7 you shouldn’t vote on your design.
It’s a fake contest. - 179September 11th, 2008 2:28 pm
It’s just sad to see people accusing some designers like this. It’s a contest, not everyone wil be happy with the finalists or the winner – but it’s just childish to say the designer with the most votes is cheating.
Anyways, congratulations – and a huge thank you – to all the desginers who contributed. Even if some of the designs are very large/colorful/dated/whatever, this is still a great source of inspiration!
- 180September 11th, 2008 2:34 pm
Some of the posts are nice … but some … damn! Try imagining the images between texts more then once. Some will look very fucked up and disturbing. To me the “hr-tag” is used for functionality to make things clear, not big images distracting you from reading texts.
Link
This is what i created, wasn’t selected here though. - 181September 11th, 2008 3:50 pm
I agree… much better stuff in the big group then what got selected. Regardless, I love having these tools in my box, thank you!
- 182September 11th, 2008 4:17 pm
No one can deny that there are some beautiful designs in this post. With that said, I have to ask, what were many of you thinking? I can visualize a lot of these being in tutorials on what not to do. Very sad to see that people actually thought they looked good upon submission.
Thank you to those who actually used design sense and created an amazing hr element.
-Braxton
- 183September 11th, 2008 4:49 pm
My favorite line NUMBER 7!!! Just beautiful :)
- 184September 11th, 2008 6:47 pm
Fav #0.
- 185September 11th, 2008 9:20 pm
all godd
- 186September 11th, 2008 10:41 pm
My vote goes to #5, Ray Pham!
- 187September 11th, 2008 11:00 pm
Fav #5!
- 188September 11th, 2008 11:10 pm
Hey guys thanks for the votes and comments! I do love my sneaker ones more though. :P
- 189September 12th, 2008 12:14 am
Can’t choice : best for me are Ross Cooper, Abhijit Sagade, REgina Silva, Olivier Courbet. None of finalist !
Some finalists are among the worst :( - 190September 12th, 2008 1:34 am
I liked Abhijit’s design, the thought process behind the picture is excellent. Rising sun!
- 191September 12th, 2008 3:12 am
My vote went to #7 when i looked through the list, this was the only one that made me say wow.
Don’t misundertand me by thinking i didn’t like the rest of them because i think there is a lot of inspiring work here!Credits to all who participated in this contest!
- 192September 12th, 2008 3:54 am
Thanks for all the votes on my hr (number 14). Personnaly I really love the #7, it totally my kind of drawing! Congratulations to all designers who submitted their hr! Just amazing!
- 193September 12th, 2008 4:06 am
All very very good, but #7 Is nice simple, clean with great colours. I love it.
- 194September 12th, 2008 5:04 am
all nice and good graphic work but from a web design perspective, where the role of the HR is as a divider between content, most of these are useless and either take up too much space or too much attention from the real content. If colors, I think they should be suttle and not have too much contrast in regards to the rest of the content. It’s really hard to judge these HR just by their sole presence, what we really need to see, is in a context on a page.
I think most of them are bad examples of designer overflow versus real life usability.
So number 1 – if I have to choose. - 195September 13th, 2008 12:22 am
Pointless contest. Way too many visuals. What is this? The Internet equivalent of Walmart? Come on guys, work on a better gui for the presentation of multiple graphics, this is just ridiculous.
- 196September 13th, 2008 5:28 am
@VernonLaz
Well someone’s got some sand in his vagina…
- 197September 13th, 2008 7:30 am
@jacksonhyde you’re mediocre and you know it.
- 198September 13th, 2008 9:19 am
Do you know that the service used for the poll (PollDaddy.com) let people vote without cookies enabled and, most important, doesn’t check the ip address?
It means that anyone can vote many times just disabling the cookies in the browser.
Not to break my mouse, I wrote a script to vote for me for the same option and…about 500 votes for the option “I don’t know” are mine. I chose that option not to to damage anyone, obviously.
Think about it :).
J. - 199September 13th, 2008 9:16 pm
inspiring sm. thanks :-)
- 200September 14th, 2008 5:30 pm
I totally agree with Jhack.
- 201September 15th, 2008 2:57 am
On of the GREATEST post I have read the last week… THANKS and THANKS AGAIN for sharing such a great HR LINES !!!!! Hope smashingmagazine.com never delete this post
- 202September 15th, 2008 11:50 pm
Number 8 is the most creative and simple design, with a digital vision.
Good luck …. - 203September 17th, 2008 5:34 am
Shouldn’t this be over by now?
- 204September 17th, 2008 8:47 am
Very creative!
Love all the designs =) - 205September 17th, 2008 2:52 pm
HI SM,
I just would like you to clarify what do you mean by this -”Unfortunately, some entries could not be considered for the contest. They didn’t meet our requirements, were too big or unusable. It was important for us that these files could be used in projects beyond the scope of our contest.” :) I wish you could be more elaborative with your instructions like most of the articles here in your site. And when will you announce the winner? thanks - 206September 18th, 2008 6:30 am
This is a great collection of HR lines! Great work to all who contributed!
- 207September 18th, 2008 6:41 pm
I voted for no. 7. I like the concept.
- 208September 19th, 2008 10:16 pm
Some of these are really cute! They would be perfect for post dividers on a Wordpress blog.
- 209September 22nd, 2008 6:15 am
When will you announce the winners?
- 210September 29th, 2008 5:30 am
Are you guys to let us know who won the contest?….I actually cant believe that it looks like that number 7 will be taking or has taken that sweet prize home.
Please do publish it when you’ve decided who the winners is and let some of us that are annoyed by who is winning say why we are unhappy about the choice that’s been made!
Still love you SM and fully understand that its not you guys that chose number 7 to win.
- 211October 1st, 2008 7:27 pm
i like the #6 can fit any where lols ^_^
- 212October 4th, 2008 2:58 am
Really great designs. I could fit a lot of them into various designs my 2 web designers do.
It is a great idea to revive the “hr”. I am seeing it less and less now.
I have been inspired to update the company website now (www.richescreative.co.uk) and make an image “hr” to replace the defult “hr” grey line I have.
I will set all this up once I have finished converting the site from tables (Arrrrghh) to div layers. Wish me luck :-)
- 213November 19th, 2008 9:51 am
Great design. I like all of them. The number 1 is a real number one in all design.
- 214December 18th, 2008 10:14 pm
so lovely .I love all of them.May be i can use them.:)
- 215February 7th, 2009 7:11 pm
so whatever happened to this contest?
- 216February 10th, 2009 10:03 pm
#11 is nice…….
- 217February 17th, 2009 1:03 pm
and how can I install one of these images between the entries of my blog? any css code?
- 218March 5th, 2009 6:06 am
hey, who have won this contest? :( have you announced it?
- 219March 17th, 2009 1:47 pm
Thanks for the contest. Nice idea. My favorite is #6
- 220May 18th, 2009 11:05 pm
Simple 1px line would probably win the contest.
- 221June 26th, 2009 1:23 am
how can I vote here ? by giving comments ??
- 222December 13th, 2009 7:30 am
I just want to tell you that your blog is very interesting, bookmarked
- 223December 24th, 2009 7:14 am
You write awsome article, bookmarked
- 224January 7th, 2010 5:42 am
The link to “hr-smashing-source-files.zip” is broken. Would you correct and notifiy me.
Thanks
William Rouse- 225January 7th, 2010 11:15 am
Thank you William, the link was updated!
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We don’t see all parts of the HR like the #3, #14, #22 … this is very sad because these HR loose style without it ..