Inspiration: Wonderful Watercolor Websites

Inspiration: Wonderful Watercolor Websites

This article showcases 30+ stunning web designs that make use of the incredible watercolor effect. The showcase is followed up with a small selection of links sharing a few tutorials and watercolor textures and brushes that you can use in your own designs.

Viget Inspire

Viget Inspire is one of the most recognized pieces of watercolor-style web design to date; there aren’t many web designers who haven’t seen it! The style is absolutely stunning, and the combination of the watercolored background and digital foreground and typography mixes incredibly well together.

Deborah Cavenaugh

Web Designer Wall

Web Designer Wall is yet another fantastic web design that is well known for its use of watercolor effects. The stunning watercolored patterns and the whole hand-made feel of the site makes it visually appealing, especially for their target audience: the creative industry.

Toby Powell

Boompa Shop

Boompa Shop have merged modern web design, such as the minimalistic footer, with some great watercolored “doodles” to create a beautiful and very unique effect for the web-based shop design.

Agami Creative

Corvus Design Studio

Corvus Design Studio have used a similar layout style to those typically used in portfolio designs, however instead of keeping it simple and plain to draw attention to their work, they’ve made the portfolio itself a piece of art, which is probably more than enough to persuade any customer to choose them for their latest project.

The Black Keys

Erguvan Platin Evleri

Erguvan Platin Evleri is one of the first to combine two popular trends in the web design industry: abstract watercolor effects and three-dimensional models. In this case the styles work very well together and are pleasing to look at; let’s hope we see more like this!

Davide Savelli

Colour of Air

Colour of Air is the first website in this showcase that uses very subtle watercolor in their design. To bring the content area below the header to life, they have used a low-opacity watercolor texture beneath the header and under the different article areas. The use of rendered noise in the design combined with subtle watercolor works great.

Sergio Design Trends

Sunrise Design

You don’t see vivid watercolor effects very often, mainly because it is quite difficult to pull off. Sunrise Design, however, pull off the effect very well, using bright greens and yellows in the background of their site design to create a happy and joyful feel.

Big Cartel

Volkswagen Escape

There are some huge and very well known companies making the most of the watercolor trend, too, such as the ever-popular Volkswagen car brand. They use a subtle, washed-out watercolor landscape in the background of their web design.

The Croquis

Saint Charles Maryland

Saint Charles Maryland, like several others in this showcase, used a light watercolor wash in the background of their design. This time, however, it is being used in the main content section of the design instead of the main background image. It’s an interesting concept that is pulled off well and goes with their corporate image.

Deep Roots and Wide Wings

Toggle

Toggle is another company that is well known in the creative industry for its fantastic use of watercolor in their website design. Unlike others, the watercolor effect seems to be randomly placed in the center of the background, rather than being used to produce a full background pattern or image (such as a landscape) in most of the other designs. It adds a great “oomph” to the site and brings out the lovely blue color scheme that has been used in the design.

Small White Bear

Brad Candullo

Brad Candullo uses watercolor in his portfolio design to add a little extra something to the background of his header, mainly to help draw attention to his website’s logo. The use of watercolor being used with so many other textures such as subtle grunge and wood is pulled off well and looks great!

Five Points Interactive

4PSD

4PSD is one of the most minimalistic designs in this showcase, simply making use of a light watercolor wash to separate the header area from the rest of the design. The colors go well with the site’s overall color scheme, and the use of whitespace only makes the watercolor effect look better!

K4 Laboratory

Binocle

Binocle is another site that uses a vivid watercolor effect in their design, this time using a very hot pink/red that slowly merges off to a deep pink/purple and magically transforms into a million birds. The effect is great and it really helps bring out the true power of the pink color used in the rest of the design.

Happy Cog

Imaginary Moments

The use of watercolor in this website design is superb! It’s very unique compared to the rest of the designs in this showcase, and is one of my personal favorites. I love how it has been merged with various other images and textures, and just the overall feel of the site.

Lebloe

Weberica

Weberica is possibly the grungiest watercolor styled web design in the showcase. It’s dark, olive green colors bring out the lovely gradient effect used in the logo, and those pink flowers help to bring out the small amount of red typography that is used in the rest of the design.

Football Made In Africa

Tylor J. Reimer

Tylor J. Reimer’s portfolio design is so simple yet so beautiful. The bright splashed watercolor effect combined with the hand-sketched dog is wonderful, and the low opacity neutral content background help to separate the illustration from the website’s content.

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Music 1062

Music 1062
simple one to three page website done.Please visit soundclick.com and view vybebeatz link on the right hand side titled most viewed.I like the way this is done.We would like the site to appeal to the R&B,Hiphop and Pop audiences.We would like the ability to go in and modify or edit the site.We plan to use ejunkie for the shopping cart and paypal for payments.We would like a banner but have not chosen a slogan as of yet.We hve a budget of $75 to $150.We samples of your past work.

Professional Business Website

Professional Business Website
Looking for web designers / developers for large ongoing business project.

The project will consist of many smaller projects; Static websites, squeeze pages, shopping carts, full database driven content management sites, custom Facebook and Twitter layouts, logos, branding, banners etc. Assignments range across the board so please indicate your speciality.

Need to prove yourself to be very professional, have up-to-date skills, a good communicator, have good attention to detail, be thorough, and a producer of high quality work within an efficient time-scale. Use of clean code and excellent stock imagery is essential.

Please note: You will be sub-contracting for me, so the websites you produce for me will not be allowed to be part of your portfolio nor will there be reference to you or your company alike.

You will need to have a comprehensive portfolio and be prepared to allow me to use some of it under my company’s label in order to provide you with more assignments. If you agree then please type ‘*G’ in correctly as it appears as the first word in your bid. Only bids with this word first will be considered.

Skills / packages required include:
– Graphic Design
– Web Design
– JavaScript
– PHP
– CSS
– Joomla
– Script Installation
– After Effects
– HTML
– Photoshop
– Illustrator
– CorelDraw
– DHTML
– XHTML
– SEO
– Action Script
– MYSQL
– AJAX
– Dreamweaver
– Xara
– XML

You will be paid per sub-project, funds can be held in escrow.

Contact me should you have any queries.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Newsletter For Phpfox V2

Newsletter For Phpfox V2
I want Dadamail or equivalent or better free open-source newsletter program, with discussion facility (members can post by mail, reply mail like discussion thread –> Check Dadamail discussion board feature for understanding) to be integrated seamlessly with PHPFox V2.
The Newsletter software you choose should have number of e-mails in an hour restriction feature (say max 300 mails in an hour).
When a new member signs-up in PHPFox V2, he would be auto-included in the Newsletter mailing list. When a user is removed from PHPFox V2, he would be removed from Newsletter as well. However, a member should have option in the PHPfox V2 sign-up to remove the tick, if he does not want to be in the mailing list. He should also have option to go to his account settings or Privacy options to select/unselect the newsletter option.
This is the Project.
You have to provide me all modified files & installation instructions. Also, I would retain copyright for resale.
Please quote.

Red5 Work 2

Red5 Work 2
Project is for the implementation of the following tutorial. Note a lot of this work is already completed. Please PM me for details:

http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/617/1/Streaming-and-database-connection-with-red5-media-server/Page1.html

Future work available if you are good.

Restrict Emails Phpfox V2

Restrict Emails Phpfox V2
In PHPFox V2, there is no way at present to restrict number of e-mails in an hour.
Want mod so that PHPFox V2 site-wide e-mails are sent in batches to control number of e-mails in an hour.
Let’s say User 1 has 500 friends. On his Birthday, system generates 500 messages from his friends wishing Birthday, which would generate 500 e-mails. It should be set up in cron-job so that say 300 mails max in an hour.
Or, say, admin sends newsletter to 2000 members, again e-mails would be sent in batches so that say 300 e-mails in an hour.
This is the project.
You have to provide me all modified files & installation instructions. Also, I would retain copyright for resale.
Please quote.

Zynga Type Game – Farmville

Zynga Type Game – Farmville
Zynga Type game

We are looking for PHP programmers who can program our games without totally screwing our players over because of there total inabllity to program.
We recently had over a half a million players screwed by our current programmers on a quest to retreive a Hot Rod Seeder.
Now we don’t have a fix to correct the problem and our customer service staff is blowing off everyone who got screwed, because they don’t give a flying <expletive> on whether our players achieve the rewards they earned or not.
We enjoy putting out updates that keep our players informed that we can tell them anything we want but the truth about our networking and software design issues.
If you are into totally screwing over our game players, reading about how angry we make them, and you dont give a flying <expletive> about them either, then your perfect for this job.

Please send resume and why you want to help screw our game players over.

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Facebook Widget

Facebook Widget
Dear all,

I have project for you to make a widget for Facebook
based on my website microblog.
My website is like twitter but is very deferent
and i want to be connected to Facebook.
By using the technology of Flash AS3 just like
Youtube embedding code on Facebook.

You can see the sample variant just like
iLike : http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2413267546&ref=search&sid=760428969.3743907214..1

imeem :
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2496256006&ref=search&sid=760428969.4275652147..1

Please give me your best Bid and how much time
do you need to finish this project.

Thanks.

Lawyer WordPress Website

Lawyer WordPress Website
I need a WordPress designer and programmer. I need to create a personal injury law website. I have a fresh copy of WordPress installed on my server and now I am looking for someone to design it and tweak it to look like the following sites: hertz-law.com, hertzlaw.net. We are using WordPress because of the back end. It is the simplest way (that we know of) to have a back end where we can add pages and edit content. The comment feature and calendar will be nonexistent throughout the site. I would like the header to have some type of java or flash effect. I have a business card and letter head that have the logo I want to use I will send it to you after I have chosen you. Once you have completed the site I will go in and add the necessary content in the back end of wordpress.