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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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!
Fantastic!
Here’s one by someone I know, what do you think of it? http://c-chingz.blogspot.com/
some good examples and some a bit over used (desktop backgrounds infuriate me now!)
Hey great list! Thanks. :0)
Great collections. Beautiful examples. Thanks!
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.
yep, cool list, good to inspire. thx
Neat designs, really inspiring thanks for sharing! And nice blog design btw, really like it here
great list
thank you.
Great collection.
Thanks.
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
I truly feel like an amateur at this moment in time. Great works from all of the above “The Pixel” blows my mind.
Very inspiring. Thank you for the post
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
Thanks for mentioning BestBlogBox, much appreciated. I also like some of the other fetured sites, some very inspiring and innovative…great list thought.
Thanks for including some of my work here! There are some sites here I hadnt seen before that are really gorgeous! :)
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.
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.
wow, these blogs area really creative! I think I really should learn from them on my blog :D thanks for sharing these!!
Very inspiring collction. The Pixel blog looks really really cool. Thanks for posting this.
Cheers!
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.
excellent designs.
really cool designs. I’m inspired!
Nice selection ! :)
Wow. Thanks for the post. I think I need a redesign of my blog in the light of these stunning ones.
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!
This is a greatly compiled list. I love every single one! I wish I had the capabilities to design like that…
Nice collection…great inspiration for design themes and blog layouts.
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
Thanks for including my work here. I follow some of these blogs simply because of the design. Good job!
Usually not a big fan of the roundup list, but there are some good designs here.
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!
Wonderful roundup! Thanks for sharing these. Love this blog. Have a super day.
Nice!
Nice collection all designs are very impressive, I’m really glad you have collected this gorgeous website design…
Thanks for including Tru Speaks, I had a lot of fun on that project!
I love your list.. great inspiring design layout..
WOW!!!
Nice collection. Inspirational.
They are very creative designs but sometimes my eyes doesn’t like it. They are overly decorated.
Great collection but I think some of them (not all) are just tweaks of existing themes.
“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!
Awesome collection…Great one.
Wow! Fantastic and inspiring design work there, lots to think about :)
I love the designs. They are creative and professional. This is truly inspirational.
WOW! :D Really nice collection!
These are really cool how can I make my site look like this I have WordPress.
great collection.. thanks for sharing
Nice list, this great for an afternoon inspiration break. Bookmarked.
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!
Oh no, blog envy…your choices are full of pizazz. Hmm…need to take a look at spicing up my blog.
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!
Very nice! I Iike “Best Blog Box”.
Great list! Many inspirations for my own site ;)
Brilliant selection, thanks for the inspiration for future web designs
Awesome roundup, thanks for sharing mate!
Very nice collection and very creative blogdesign layouts are !!!!!!!!fine thanku for sharing
Thanks for this post. Some great blog design here for inspiration.
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.
wow what a beautiful designs! I really like “the pixle” one. it looks amazing!
Great collection of templates, they look amazing.
Great design you have collected.
Really good inspiration. :-)
Pretty sick designs. Mine feels so vanilla now, heh….
I like the website shown here and it has given me some commitment to succeed, so thank you. I’m a frequent reader. I think it is so great, that I’ve gone ahead and linked to your site (dofollow) from here: http://reviewedcentre.com/websites-that-i-like/
Wow! Fantastic and inspiring design work.
very creativity work. Beautiful collections
very creativity work. Beautiful collections.
Very Beautiful collection. thank you
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Absolutely brilliant work and thanks for these stunning examples. I’m definitely inspired. Cheers.
Really Appreciate your Article, Thanks a lot…
great collection.. thanks for sharing
Really very creative blog designs, but I wonder why many of these blog do not rank well on search engines when you search for ‘design blogs”?
Great inspirational designs for new bloggers :)
Great collection, thank you.