A sketchy illustration style and a soft color choice make this website’s background memorable.

How am I supposed to categorize these impossibly beautiful display ampersands, packaged both as .eps vector files and opentype font? Are they typography or just icon design? While I try to solve this “visual” conundrum, you can take a look at this website and find who really were Haäfe & Haph.

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!

Roughly from French: We’re sorry but the page you’ve been looking for it’s not been found. We suggest you to go back to the web site, because here there’s not a shadow of any bright idea. The metaphor is unusual and the good copy matches perfectly the illustration: this error page is simply…brilliant!

Helen Dardik, a cosmopolitan illustrator currently residing in Canada, creates beautiful and fanciful patterns.

Fogde Morten Christensen’s blog beautiful infographics.

The archive of beautiful illustrations of Spanish artist Alterebro is real clean and simple  and CSS friendly (in effect I don’t think it would take more than a class to build it). Mouse over links is fundamental to the reading when you deal with text with a poor contrast.