Trent Walton’s website displays a hilarious 404 error page, inspired by Ghost Busters characters.

Mixing different weight and style and, possibly, different typefaces, is one of the most ancient trick in modern typography. The risk is that sometimes text is not enjoyable or readable, but we think this is not the case.

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) .

First I didn’t understand who was Daisy. Then when my brains started firing on all cylinders I realized it was a beautiful, funny 404 error page slightly inspired by The Wizard of OZ.
If not entirely, I’m a little bit of Scarecrow myself.

An effective, minimal and charming way to introduce your studio, your work or the philosopy underlying your materspieces could be writing it in a short introduction (or simply summarizing it with a witty quote). Even if you’re a vector virtuoso or a photoshop goddess, a nicely written text may be the way to distinguish yourself [...]

Tumblr is one of my favorite example of effective user interaction model. The sign up form is a masterpiece of simplicity and functionality: no confirmation fields to fill in, no threatening messagges or red alerts for mandatory informations or complicated password policy, just a minimal sets of data, a nice copy on the top, a [...]

This is a powerful callout box found in Income diary, a blog that hopefully will teach us all how to earn an additional income from the Internet.
Apart from the blog’s lofty ideals, I really think that in this case the association of a street sign icon with a heavy typography and a bossy copywriting can [...]

We’re fond of the illustration. We adore the palette. We’re puzzled by the copy and enthralled at the same time.
Great job Huwshimi!

Lately LastFm’s charts have been temporarily offline. So I’ve had the chance to see this error page which, as you can see by yourself, it’s written in several languages.
What really struck me it’s the fact that messages aren’t identical but, depending on your nationality, you’re invited to drink a different beverage.
That made me smile beacause, [...]

Carsonified is really a studio we wish we could work for: we passionately follow their famous blog Think Vitamin and we admire their great style.
So we are proud to introduce you their quite famous error page based on awesome illustration and  funny copy. We love as well the heavy use of Cooper for the heading.

And here you are a little graphical treat for this weekend: a funny error page from PsdThemes.com starring Omar Simpson.
We love as well the copy that reads:
It seems that the page you were trying to reach doesn’t exist anymore, or maybe it has just moved. We think that the best thing to do is to [...]

Today we’ve added a brand new category to Web & Patterns, about good inspirational copywriting for the web.
So today’s first post is all about

Bringing the art to the cart

which is a beautiful example of product introduction that, once read, it will stick in your mind for very looong.
Have an inspirational day!

Crowleywebb is an AD agency located in Buffalo with a quite surprisingly unconventional flash website.  I think it’s a bold move for an agency to put aside any graphic treatments, relying only on typography and copy. As you will see, the splash page is brilliant, the text treatment is simple yet effective and the transitions are smooth [...]

This loooong 404 error page text from Jason Santa Maria’s blog made me chuckle.
Oops! There isn’t even a remotely meaningful page here; not unlike the rest of this site. At least some of the other pages have some pretty pictures to look at. Why don’t you try starting again from the front door? Or maybe [...]

A foul-mouthed, obscenely funny 404 error page from South Park Studios’ website. What else could you have been expecting from Kyle Broflovski and Eric Cartama put together in a single web page?