Contrary to the actual webdesign trend of overbearing footers, crammed with links and sometimes not very pertinent references, Fridgework shows us the beauty of a simple five words ending (and a strategically set back-to-top button) .

Overlapping vector illustrations entwine to create a powerful pink footer.

A nice monochrome footer from laFraise, a t-shirt competition website. We love this wintry, cold blue footer with warm mouse over effects and we must admit that the shopping section is very tempting.
Très joli.

Being a gifted illustrator really comes in handy when you have to enlighten your website’s footer and yes, you got me, this post was just a lame pretext for showing you Loscoloresolvidados‘ illustrations.
PS: You can find really nice desktop wallpaper as well!

A heavily, in a positive way, styled footer and a fascinating tropical imagery from Komodo Media ’s website.
Apart from the stunning toucan mascot, we loved the brilliantly cd-shaped last fm widget (Jamming to).

Actually we’re big fans of Vimeo’s website design and we HAD to mention its beautiful footer background displaying a kind of Earth-scale-model dissection with isometric characters on it.

Fatcow is an Internet provider and Web hosting service 100% powered by wind energy.
We think their green efforts are absolutely worth being mentioned and we also love their ecological inspired footer.

Since here (in Italy) it’s lunch-time, we’ve been quite suspiciously inspired by Sesame footer: an urban deli shop, located in Leeds (unfortunately for us), with a nice website.
Sesame grey footer includes an intricate floreal pattern with tiny magenta birds that seem to warble and trill “eat…eat…”: I think it’s definitely time for me to get out and [...]

The footer of the photographic studio Symbol is visually closed by two labels containing links to Facebook and Twitter.

Sweet & Saucy is a small company specializing in the production of spectacular wedding cakes: the footer, designed in a old-fashioned style, has  funny  mixer-button-icon that carries back to the home page.

Impulse Studios footer conjugates both the functions of customers login and map site navigation.

The icon used in the footer of Firefox Add-ons page is not only enjoyable, but also suggests a sense of richness and variety of items available in this section.

Pampaneo’s footer  (on the top) closes the story of two young designers, who venture on a secret mission to discover “new world of images”: the metaphor of space exploration starts from the home page and develops consistently in the web site (eg. on the header of internal pages, on the bottom).

The footer in Fred Maya’s portfolio

Psdthemes is basically a directory of web sites themes some of which are free and I think it’s a useful resource for both aspiring and professional web designers. 
The footer is organized into tabs and consists basically of a tag cloud.