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.
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!
Bill Biwer
September 10th, 2008 6:39 amMy 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.
masilli
September 10th, 2008 6:39 amNot my Top25… anyways, congratulations to the selected ones :P
Voted for nr.8 :)
Degt.cl
September 10th, 2008 6:50 am#7 is the best!-.
Rudy
September 10th, 2008 6:52 amVoted 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.
krizalis
September 10th, 2008 7:36 amawww.. 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! :)
mdrisser
September 10th, 2008 7:36 amI 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.
Parker
September 10th, 2008 7:50 amInitially 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!
Sandeep Singh
September 10th, 2008 7:52 amThanks for selecting my entry in the top 25. …. :)
Its at no. 22
http://www.designscroller.com
Niobe
September 10th, 2008 7:59 amThese remind me of the 90′s. The only thing missing is an under construction jackhammer dude.
cyph3r
September 10th, 2008 8:15 amWell i really like your site, but those hrs are some kind of boring…
Jeff Kaufman
September 10th, 2008 8:18 amFor 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.
Elza
September 10th, 2008 8:28 amIt’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! : (
Charles
September 10th, 2008 8:57 amWhy 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.).
Brandi
September 10th, 2008 8:59 amYeah, a lot of these are kind of ridiculous. In a bad way. I like the Pac-Man.
Michael
September 10th, 2008 9:02 amgreat hr’s.. wish I submitted one.
Josh
September 10th, 2008 9:21 amWhy 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!
Indrek Ardel
September 10th, 2008 10:11 amI like the pacman line, i especially like the soft tones on it, which makes eyes feel good.
Amanda
September 10th, 2008 10:12 amI’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.
pica
September 10th, 2008 10:20 amsome 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
lica
September 10th, 2008 10:25 amNice 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!!
DRM
September 10th, 2008 10:42 amYah, a bunch of the ones they chose for the finalists are terribad. But of course, it’s their choice, not yours or mine.
D E N Y
September 10th, 2008 10:55 am7! is creative
Frederico Batalha
September 10th, 2008 11:27 amMost of them look so démodé.
mere
September 10th, 2008 11:30 ammany of the winners look like clip art… a boldly outlined cat??? really? (no offense)
postlogic
September 10th, 2008 11:39 amSome of these reminds me of default themes in old Frontpage.
Rhyming Designer
September 10th, 2008 11:41 amTo 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?
Frederico Batalha
September 10th, 2008 11:41 amI’m very disappointed with the results. Too bad for SM reputation.
Russell Bishop
September 10th, 2008 12:18 pm7 is excellent, but I think the lovely detailed Ninja hr should have made it in!
luizdev
September 10th, 2008 12:26 pmmuy buenos los diseños de los concursantes
Matt
September 10th, 2008 12:50 pmIf only #7 wouldn’t be that, hmm, bulky – I would’ve definitely gone for that one. That being the case, I voted on #8
Milan
September 10th, 2008 12:51 pmI 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
António
September 10th, 2008 12:59 pmI voted for #7. What does bulky mean, by the way?
D. Meene
September 10th, 2008 1:12 pmmy vote goes to #8, i love the minimalistic style.
daniel
September 10th, 2008 1:14 pmi vote for #7, one of the coolest web drawings i ever seen. Thanks for making this kind of contest.
Ryu Rider
September 10th, 2008 1:22 pmI vote for #2 desing … the desing of Carina Kornowski
Cluster
September 10th, 2008 1:30 pmBack 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).
Make Design, Not War
September 10th, 2008 2:33 pmAwesome – 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
Scorpiono
September 10th, 2008 2:35 pm7 is quite lovely :D
Eric-from-Boston
September 10th, 2008 2:37 pmdid you really upload every design? there are so many garbage ones in there that are eating up space and wasting my time.
Priscilla
September 10th, 2008 2:58 pmThat´s really a wonderful pack! All should be winners.
Paradajz
September 10th, 2008 3:50 pmOk, 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.
Ezra
September 10th, 2008 3:56 pmHave 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.
Oridus
September 10th, 2008 6:09 pm18 is cute!
richard
September 10th, 2008 6:13 pmWhat licence are these released under?
Sofia Benfeitor
September 10th, 2008 7:24 pmSome of them are bulky and ugly. I’m sure you received better ones in the 1290 pack that you should show.
Sofia Benfeitor
September 10th, 2008 7:28 pmMaybe you got tired from seeing so much lines, and gave up on them.
Fernanda
September 10th, 2008 8:05 pmRatko Horvat is the real “The Line”!
nickpan
September 10th, 2008 8:13 pmafter HR, we should so do LI
H
September 10th, 2008 8:25 pmVoted! 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!
archknight79
September 10th, 2008 9:22 pmOne of the greatest contest here ever! :D I vote for pacman
Mukesh
September 10th, 2008 9:27 pm#5 & #7 awesome, can be use with any design……..
marcelebrate
September 10th, 2008 9:49 pmI 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.
Geshan
September 10th, 2008 10:16 pmGreat collection is there any problem in using them?
Manuel
September 10th, 2008 10:27 pm#7 Stop voting on yourself.
Sameer Khole
September 10th, 2008 10:44 pmVery simple and soothing designs by Abhijit Sagade. Great Job!
Awesh
September 10th, 2008 11:02 pmWOW… awesome designs.. very creative…
i vote for #11 and #7…
Arun
September 10th, 2008 11:18 pmLoads of creativity here! I loved #4
jing
September 11th, 2008 12:15 amwhoa … kooooools :)
ZeroDown
September 11th, 2008 12:47 amwow
big gratz to all designers
great talent here
Kristian
September 11th, 2008 1:09 amDet var bra skapelser!
Adam Alyan
September 11th, 2008 1:41 amNumber 7!! very cool…. also I liked some of the stitches ideas althought non of them was from the final 25.
antipix
September 11th, 2008 2:13 amreally nice post, thanks ^^
Romi Dumitrescu
September 11th, 2008 2:17 ami don’t see Ray Pham in the final list :/ that’s a pitty
The sneakers are great! Good job!
Jehzeel Laurente
September 11th, 2008 3:13 amwow 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 :)
Chris B
September 11th, 2008 3:43 amI found eight of them to be absolutely amazing. None of those eight made the final 25 though. Strange.
Beppone
September 11th, 2008 4:48 amwonderful!! veeeeeeery nice ideas.. thanks to all…
i’m sad.. i need to learn mooooooore to reach a similar level..
thanks again :)
santosh
September 11th, 2008 5:56 amfor 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
Luke
September 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…
Brett K
September 11th, 2008 6:57 amI don’t think any of these deserve the prize..
Jens
September 11th, 2008 7:14 amThe 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. :)
elisa
September 11th, 2008 7:28 amThese lines are soooo beautiful! It’s impossibile to choose only one winner!!!
bluejay
September 11th, 2008 7:37 amTough 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.
Loughlin
September 11th, 2008 7:48 amI think about 3 of these are good. The rest are pretty damn average.
Quakeulf
September 11th, 2008 10:50 amGoddamn Ratko Horvat should have won this one. =D
Szymon
September 11th, 2008 11:12 amUmmmmm….. 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.
Ines
September 11th, 2008 1:16 pmThe judges are not Designers, they are developers.
Ines
September 11th, 2008 1:18 pm#7 you shouldn’t vote on your design.
It’s a fake contest.
Sarah
September 11th, 2008 2:28 pmIt’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!
Patrick_Balkenende
September 11th, 2008 2:34 pmSome 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.
jason
September 11th, 2008 3:50 pmI agree… much better stuff in the big group then what got selected. Regardless, I love having these tools in my box, thank you!
Braxton
September 11th, 2008 4:17 pmNo 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
Jesi
September 11th, 2008 4:49 pmMy favorite line NUMBER 7!!! Just beautiful :)
Manuel
September 11th, 2008 6:47 pmFav #0.
sid
September 11th, 2008 9:20 pmall godd
Calvin
September 11th, 2008 10:41 pmMy vote goes to #5, Ray Pham!
Kat Lim
September 11th, 2008 11:00 pmFav #5!
Ray Pham
September 11th, 2008 11:10 pmHey guys thanks for the votes and comments! I do love my sneaker ones more though. :P
benharvest
September 12th, 2008 12:14 amCan’t choice : best for me are Ross Cooper, Abhijit Sagade, REgina Silva, Olivier Courbet. None of finalist !
Some finalists are among the worst :(
kanchan
September 12th, 2008 1:34 amI liked Abhijit’s design, the thought process behind the picture is excellent. Rising sun!
Soap
September 12th, 2008 3:12 amMy 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!
David
September 12th, 2008 3:54 amThanks 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!
liam
September 12th, 2008 4:06 amAll very very good, but #7 Is nice simple, clean with great colours. I love it.
thom
September 12th, 2008 5:04 amall 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.
VernonLaz
September 13th, 2008 12:22 amPointless 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.
jacksonhyde
September 13th, 2008 5:28 am@VernonLaz
Well someone’s got some sand in his vagina…
VernonLaz
September 13th, 2008 7:30 am@jacksonhyde you’re mediocre and you know it.
Jhack
September 13th, 2008 9:19 amDo 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.
anand
September 13th, 2008 9:16 pminspiring sm. thanks :-)
Manuel
September 14th, 2008 5:30 pmI totally agree with Jhack.
Moschos
September 15th, 2008 2:57 amOn 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