30 Highly Creative Blog Design Layouts
These days blogs come a dime a dozen, so making a highly creative design that captivates the viewer and gets their attention is a key component in having a successful blog. Your content might be killer, and your personality might click well with millions of people, but without holding the attention of an audience who gets bored after 2-3 seconds, your blog just won’t have the same instant impact you deserve. These thirty blogs get it – and they did their job well.
Below you will see thirty blog designs with creative designs that help them stand out from the crowd. From simple grunge and worn looks to the illustrative works, there are many levels of creative here that I tried to cover. I hope you enjoy the post and you get inspired to make something beautiful afterwards.
Ashley Tisdale ↓
Design Spartan ↓
mashKULTURE ↓
Fran Fernández ↓
Get Back To Work ↓
Squarespace Blog ↓
Design Critique ↓
From Me To You ↓
Hyper Island ↓
Hey Indy ↓
Gary’s Real Life ↓
Jason Bradbury ↓
Mark Forrester ↓
The Pixel ↓
Tripping Words ↓
Koodoz Blog ↓
Cog’nition ↓
Work Awesome ↓
Manuel Romero ↓
All For Design ↓
justBcoz ↓
Belzebu de Saia ↓
Duirwaigh ↓
The Reinhardt Blog ↓
Best Blog Box ↓
Hatch ↓
Undead Labs ↓
Sean Johnson ↓
Ezobase ↓
Tru Speaks ↓
And now we give you the floor
Have a blog with a killer design? What about a link to one that we may have missed? Drop a comment below and let us know.
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About the author:
Mike Smith releases wordpress themes on a regular basis and is also a blog designer at Guerrilla.
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November 30th, 2009
I think these are all fantastic designs. My question would be why we tend to consider designs that are grungy, more cluttered, a little more loosely designed, etc as “creative”.
While I love the designs in this post, I think you can have an extremely creative minimalistic blog design and still come off as very creative. In fact, I would argue that sometimes it is even harder to be creative when you are forced to be minimalistic. Maybe that’s why only the best of the best can pull off a “creative” minimalistic designs.
Just something the think about. Loved the featured sites and the post in general. Thanks for sharing!
November 30th, 2009
Fantastic!
Here’s one by someone I know, what do you think of it? http://c-chingz.blogspot.com/
November 30th, 2009
some good examples and some a bit over used (desktop backgrounds infuriate me now!)
November 30th, 2009
Hey great list! Thanks. :0)
November 30th, 2009
Great collections. Beautiful examples. Thanks!
November 30th, 2009
Grat collection of really kick-butt design. I see Mark Forrester’s site in a lot of galleries. That header image is pretty cool though.
November 30th, 2009
yep, cool list, good to inspire. thx
November 30th, 2009
Neat designs, really inspiring thanks for sharing! And nice blog design btw, really like it here
November 30th, 2009
great list
thank you.
November 30th, 2009
Great collection.
Thanks.
November 30th, 2009
Hi man,
Thank you for the feature.
I still wanted to change the design of my blog design because I think it has some big mistakes: not enough balanced, lack of contrast, etc. … But I am glad to see it is still recognized … It is perhaps not as bad as I think.
It’s always a pleasure to read your blog, congrats for your work here.
Regards
November 30th, 2009
I truly feel like an amateur at this moment in time. Great works from all of the above “The Pixel” blows my mind.
November 30th, 2009
Very inspiring. Thank you for the post
November 30th, 2009
Thank you for highlighting the great design of my blog by NYC web designer Kevin Burg! It makes me really proud to be apart of this community of talented artists and bloggers so my sincerest thanks!
From Me To You,
Jamie
November 30th, 2009
Thanks for mentioning BestBlogBox, much appreciated. I also like some of the other fetured sites, some very inspiring and innovative…great list thought.
November 30th, 2009
Thanks for including some of my work here! There are some sites here I hadnt seen before that are really gorgeous! :)
November 30th, 2009
Thanks for the replies everyone. Glad to see everyone finding some inspiration in the post.
@Preston – I think all designs are creative, including the minimalist style – I believe though that more people resonate the “creative” word with “out of the ordinary” which is why I titled the post as so.
November 30th, 2009
I do agree with @Preston, but I would have titled it the same as you did Mike. That’s just a common misconception that a lot of people have.
Anyways, great round-up and there are a few sites that I haven’t seen before.
November 30th, 2009
wow, these blogs area really creative! I think I really should learn from them on my blog :D thanks for sharing these!!
December 1st, 2009
Very inspiring collction. The Pixel blog looks really really cool. Thanks for posting this.
Cheers!
December 1st, 2009
Sorry, but the “get back to work” blog has one of the worst designs I’ve ever seen. It’s using that really crappy free font (with the stupid looking ‘e’) that a lot of people are using and its main element is made with very cliche grunge brushes from photoshop. It’s like myspace barfed up on a white piece of paper.
Not sure why it was included.
December 1st, 2009
excellent designs.
December 1st, 2009
really cool designs. I’m inspired!
December 1st, 2009
Nice selection ! :)
December 1st, 2009
Wow. Thanks for the post. I think I need a redesign of my blog in the light of these stunning ones.
December 1st, 2009
Couldn’t agree more with Preston (first post). I think that, while some of these “creative” blog designs look great, a really high proportion of them are practically unuseable in terms of navigation. The user is so blinded by the “wow” factor that they don’t notice the fact that the accessibility is shocking. You get presented with such a massive amount of information and links, it’s difficult to work out where you’re going and how to get there.
I realise that this is probably a more general problem and one that the popularity of blogs has probably made worse but, in terms of blog design, I honestly think that some of the most creative ones are the ones where the designer has clearly used their imagination and problem-solving to create simple, clean sites that are easy to navigate.
My definition of a well-designed blog may be different from others’ but I think a good indicator is asking yourself “Can I find exactly what I’m looking for quickly, WITHOUT using the search field?”. Now, I realise that many people visit blogs not knowing what they are looking for (a lot of the time, this seems to be the whole point) but I still like using that as a tell-tale of effective design.
Rant over, the designs you have chosen in this post are actually a LOT better than many I have seen listed in “Most Creative Blog Designs” posts. I would like to see some super-clean designs listed by someone out there though…
Thanks for posting!
December 1st, 2009
This is a greatly compiled list. I love every single one! I wish I had the capabilities to design like that…
December 1st, 2009
Nice collection…great inspiration for design themes and blog layouts.
December 1st, 2009
awesome colors being used on some of the website displayed and really a post to get cool ideas for the next project.
the best one to me will have to be The Pixel
December 2nd, 2009
Thanks for including my work here. I follow some of these blogs simply because of the design. Good job!
December 2nd, 2009
Usually not a big fan of the roundup list, but there are some good designs here.
December 4th, 2009
As mentioned, some of these are indeed great designs, but there is more to be creative than just graphics and images.
A lot of these, however, do employ some good practises in usability and accessibility; I believe that is very important in design these days, and can also be implemented creatively.
Some great inspiration here though!
December 7th, 2009
Wonderful roundup! Thanks for sharing these. Love this blog. Have a super day.
December 8th, 2009
Nice!
December 10th, 2009
Nice collection all designs are very impressive, I’m really glad you have collected this gorgeous website design…
December 14th, 2009
Thanks for including Tru Speaks, I had a lot of fun on that project!
December 16th, 2009
I love your list.. great inspiring design layout..
December 24th, 2009
WOW!!!
December 24th, 2009
Nice collection. Inspirational.
February 10th, 2010
They are very creative designs but sometimes my eyes doesn’t like it. They are overly decorated.
February 22nd, 2010
Great collection but I think some of them (not all) are just tweaks of existing themes.
February 26th, 2010
“From me to you” and “Hypher Island” are 2 of the best because they provide personal feel and they are clean, and have a very good color combination. Thanks for sharing!
February 27th, 2010
Awesome collection…Great one.
March 2nd, 2010
Wow! Fantastic and inspiring design work there, lots to think about :)
April 1st, 2010
I love the designs. They are creative and professional. This is truly inspirational.
April 7th, 2010
WOW! :D Really nice collection!
April 7th, 2010
These are really cool how can I make my site look like this I have WordPress.
April 7th, 2010
great collection.. thanks for sharing
April 14th, 2010
Nice list, this great for an afternoon inspiration break. Bookmarked.
April 23rd, 2010
Great designs! I wish i had this inspiration a few weeks ago when I redesigned my blog. My favorite has got to be the justbcuz blog!
May 3rd, 2010
Oh no, blog envy…your choices are full of pizazz. Hmm…need to take a look at spicing up my blog.
May 5th, 2010
Great selection of beautiful designs, its an ambition of mine to get a mention in one of these features :^)
Looking forward to the next show case!
June 22nd, 2010
Very nice! I Iike “Best Blog Box”.
June 24th, 2010
Great list! Many inspirations for my own site ;)
July 7th, 2010
Brilliant selection, thanks for the inspiration for future web designs
July 8th, 2010
Awesome roundup, thanks for sharing mate!
July 13th, 2010
Very nice collection and very creative blogdesign layouts are !!!!!!!!fine thanku for sharing
July 13th, 2010
Thanks for this post. Some great blog design here for inspiration.
July 19th, 2010
Really nice roundup :) I liked these ones: Duirwaigh (a little Alice in Wonderland or The Imaginarium of the Dr. Parnassus) and Best Blog Box (kinda nice and girly, but in a great way though). But there are several others who are really creative and well though. I love a blog that has a nice and creatively designed header. Thanks for sharing these.
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