Corrugated Board & Sharpie Design

LOL!! It’s a simple looking corrugated board and Sharpie design that makes you want to burst out laughing. If you scroll down, you will realize that this is a professional design firm’s website. The elements on a page are perfectly laid out and are easy to read. The hand-drawn design at the bottom, in the footer is awesome looking.

If I understood the language that this website is in, I’d have a lot easier time navigating through it. But design is sweet looking and pretty entertaining.

Source: http://snopp.no

A Nice Looking Footer

Here is a nice little footer design idea. A nice illustration of cheering people exploding with excitement out onto the page. Looks pretty nice.

Source: http://www.petit-mariage-entre-amis.fr

Bunny, Fishes & An Octopus, Makes A Good Footer Design

Weird but true… This looks like a nice footer. A mash of random things, items, a little design sense and you’ve got your self a sweet design. It doesn’t always have to make sense, it just needs to please the eye.

Source: http://www.starcatcher.es

Whitestone Design Werks Beautiful Design

I have met Russell Heistuman at a local Marketers Meeting, he’s a skilled graphic designer with over 20 years under his belt. His company website’s design looks amazing, so elegant and professional, it is a real inspiration piece. All though the entire website is worth taking notes on, I’d like to feature the header and the footer, because they are the two elements that really stand out for me.

Russell is all about identity and on his website, it follows through. The website look reflects the look of the business card that I got from him. The logo is awesome, form the faint gray background, Spirograph design with a colorful 8 point star in the middle, to the transparent box to the top-right with the company name inside. That Spirograph design in the background, although subtle, really adds depth to the design.

The other element I really like is the footer. Again, the design follows through, the Spirograph part of the logo with the colorful star is set on the bottom-right this time to balance out the page design. The colors, the fonts, it all works together to bring forth this beautiful design.

Awesome website Russell!

Source: http://www.wdwerks.com

P.S. Thanks to Anrkist for pointing out what that Spirograph design is called. I knew there had to be a name for it but really didn’t know what to call it.

7 Good Footer Design Ideas

When it comes to footers, for some reason I have a hard time finding any good ones. It’s like by the time the web designers get to the footer they are burned out and do not spend as much time on it.

Here is a few that I did find.

IdealHut.com

YoDiv.com

RodrigoVarandas.com (before)

RodrigoVarandas.com (now)

JustPixel.net

JPeckJewelers.com

iDevelop.ro

Can you think of any other ones that are good? If you ever stumble on a good footer design, please submit it to WDI, we’d love to see it.