Art

Drawing and image-making as the subject, not the decoration.

86 winners · best 8.09

The Pick

Santioni Spirits"The Notturno Experience" invites visitors into the illustrated universe of Santioni Spirits. An immersive, comic book-inspired journey serving as the brand's introduction to the world.

Sleep Well CreativeSleep Well Creatives is an interactive web experience designed to help people and improve the quality of their sleep through science-based insights, friendly design, and visuals. The look: mid-century storybook illustration, flat gouache-textured night landscape with a lone silhouetted figure, gold star specks and wide-tracked serif caps like a book title page.

MessengerIt's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries. The look: indie game splash art, a hand-painted floating island illustration with chunky isometric block lettering and a single pixel-styled 'enter' button, framed like a game's start screen.

MindMarketMindMarket isn’t your typical research agency. They listen for the human stories that data alone can’t surface, whether they’re in Lagos, London, Seoul, or anywhere else in the world. The look: corporate memphis, rubbery limbless figures in flat bright blocks over a candy-green panel with confetti squiggles and cartoon clouds. Its headline: “Real human insights.”

Champions For GoodA colorful web experience for the German start-up Champions For Good. With lots of little details, playful animations and a sporty touch. The look: sports poster typography, oversized condensed sans headline in mixed roman/italic weights on a flat two-tone field with Olympic-style figure icons.

The Monolith ProjectAcross the stars, a silent monolith awakens. The Monolith Project: Where every touch rewrites reality. The look: flat-shaded 3D game art, a cel-shaded, outlined 3D scene with a crosshair-style cursor and tiny HUD text at the screen edges.

Tracing ArtTracing Art brings to life real stories of art provenance through dynamic visuals and rich data from the newly updated Getty Provenance Index. The look: museum gallery minimalism, warm neutral ground with scattered framed artworks and a white serif-titled card reads like a curated exhibition wall translated to screen.

Ponpon ManiaPonpon Mania is an interactive comic. Follow the adventure of a megalomaniac sheep who wants to make the world dance. It's a mix between creative coding and illustrations ! The look: contemporary cartoon illustration, full-bleed hand-drawn scene of bold-outlined animal characters in saturated flat colour with a rounded cartoon logotype. Its headline: “by Justine Soulié and Patrick Heng.”

Colonia ZacamilColonia Zacamil is a place where public art, community co-design and sustainable development converge.

Sui Overflow 2025A new brand identity, design and development of Sui’s 2025 Overflow event website. The look: flat 3D vector illustration, isometric outlined keycaps and UI icons in candy gradients float over a blueprint grid beside clean grotesk type. Its headline: “Sui Overflow 2026.”

The ADHD experienceAn experimental website that visualizes the experience of ADHD—using interactive design to reflect its symptoms and everyday impact. The look: Swiss-influenced neo-brutalist web, oversized condensed grotesk headline, exposed graph-paper grid, hard black circles and a blurred monochrome photo backdrop.

La RevoltosaI've been in Spanish bars for 70+ years. About time I had a website that did me justice. This is my story, my flavours, my spirit. I am La Revoltosa. Sparkling drinks, Spanish soul. The look: vintage soda advertising, flat vermilion field, oversized slab-serif headline overlapping a product shot, script logo and retro illustrated label.

DICH™ FashionDiscover DICH™ Fashion's new era of futuristic fashion. Explore innovative designs that blend perfection and elegance, setting new trends in luxury apparel. The look: surreal 3D digital art, a photoreal 3D alien figure against pink clouds with wide sci-fi display type and HUD-style monospace labels. Its headline: “Future Mode of DICH.”

FOLLOW.ARTFOLLOW.ART is a global digital platform for contemporary curators and artists to showcase portfolios, collaborate, and gain recognition. The look: Swiss poster modernism, giant condensed grotesque headline bleeding off the frame on flat orange, with tiny grid-set labels and a single ink brush mark.

Razorpay Sprint 26An immersive journey into the future of AI-led payments. Razorpay Sprint26 is about 100+ product updates brought to life through 100+ scroll and click triggered interactions. The look: techno-futurist CGI, electric-blue 3D wireframe mesh hero paired with monospaced nav labels and oversized condensed grotesk on black. Its headline: “The all in one finance platform you’ve been looking for.”

UNESCO Stolen Objects MuseumUNESCO created the world’s first Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, using AI to transform the absence of stolen and trafficked heritage into a space that restores memory and identity. The look: cinematic 3D render, a full-bleed photoreal 3D scene of exploding stone fragments with volumetric light behind soft rounded display type.

Matthew FisherMatthew Fisher’s practice ranges from unique art objects to commissioned productions and celebrates the union between heritage, natural materials, and refined craftsmanship. The look: editorial luxury minimalism, oversized Didone serif initials on cream paper stock above a full-bleed styled still-life photograph. Its headline: “The Seaport Gallery.”

De Maldè - Canvas ChroniclesWelcome to Canvas Chronicles, a journey into De Maldè works, his first online retrospective, artworks from 2008 till 2023. The look: gallery catalogue minimalism, vast white field, tiny serif captions and a large didone title framing a vertical column of artwork plates like catalogue pages.

Make It Real Foundation MerchA charity project supporting Ukrainian children affected by war through art and merch, each T-shirt features real drawings made by kids from across Ukraine. The look: photo-collage poster activism, cut-out photo on flat ultramarine ground with childlike doodles and heavy stencil-sliced sans type.

Captain GoosebumpsThis goose may not be able to fly, but it sure can slide! Collect all the orbs and bring color back to the world. In support of Live in Color, an organisation that promotes inclusion. The look: mid-century children's book illustration, flat stylised trees, layered geometric hills and grainy warm-vs-teal palette read as printed storybook illustration rather than web UI. Its headline: “Captain Goosebumps.”

FlowFest 2025The No.1 Fest for Web Designers & Devs. Friday 8th August, Manchester, UK. Get Your Ticket for Community-Led Event of the Year. The look: 1970s retro revival, rounded groovy display type with drop shadows, cream ground, and concentric pink-orange-yellow rainbow arcs. Its headline: “Webflow chat, festival vibes, good times.”

Elimarvan Gogh's story is one of lost art, fractured identity, regret and redemption. Through Elimar we gain new insight into the life of one of the most important artists of the modern era. The look: editorial art-house minimalism, high-contrast grainy portrait fading into white, oversized didone serif title with tiny monospaced labels on a vertical margin rule. Its headline: “LMI presents Elimar.”

Detroit ParisDetroit is an AI production house in Paris crafting visual culture for luxury brands. Detroit produces images, films and campaigns. The look: Swiss modernist poster, huge condensed black grotesque headline on white with a tight sans nav, set against staggered full-bleed glossy imagery. Its headline: “Detroit - AI Production House in Paris, Crafting Culture for Luxury Brands. PRINT & FILM. AI. 3D. CGI.”

The Art of SilkA tribute to Gucci’s heritage: 9 visionary artists reinterpret iconic silk scarves across five themes. A real-time 3D gallery and creative wizard let users explore and design their own. The look: luxury fashion editorial, serif display headline centred above floating silk scarves on a card framed by a beige monogram-patterned ground.

Aimee's Papercraft WorldA papercraft world about someone who was abused in the creative industry and chose to help others through healthcare. The look: papercraft diorama illustration, layered cut-paper sets with soft shadows and felt-like textures build storybook scenes for each season.

Ten Years AwayTen Years Away is an interactive comic that chronicles ten years of Studio375. Real characters. Real stories. The look: comic book poster art, a dense hand-drawn comic cover floats centre-stage under oversized cropped display type and outlined numerals.

Ruinart - Digital frescoRuinart’s iconic fresco is reimagined digitally, letting users explore its heritage, values, and craftsmanship through AR on-site or an elegant global web experience. The look: painted mural illustration, a hand-painted panoramic landscape with fresco-like muted pigments and naturalist drawings of grapes and birds spilling past the frame.

ThorgalA son of the stars, raised by Vikings, bound to neither. Thorgal, the Franco-Belgian saga by Van Hamme and Rosiński since 1977, now the official interactive edition, from Le Lombard. The look: European comic-book illustration, a hand-inked, cross-hatched fantasy landscape in duotone sunset colours fills the frame like a graphic-novel splash page.

Joy From AfricaJoy from Africa to the World is an award-winning movement pioneered by the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town’s sea-side neighbourhood. The website captures the magic of the festive season. The look: botanical illustration revival, hand-drawn line-and-flat-colour flora sprawling across a pale mint field, with an engraved-style seal logo and high-contrast didone display type.

The SparkA browser-based 3D story that puts you inside a creative uprising. Scroll, explore, and set the creative spark free! The look: sci-fi HUD interface, targeting brackets, tracking labels and monospaced telemetry text overlay a cinematic cloud render. Its headline: “A great idea just needs someone brave enough to help it shine. let us help yours Visit the Digital Panda ↗.”

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Brand in the OpenReshaping the Base brand. Not from the top down, but from the ground up. With artists. With builders. With you. The look: digital moodboard collage, scattered image cards on a dark dotted grid with tiny lowercase UI chips reads as an infinite-canvas pinboard rather than a page layout. Its headline: “Base Brand Guidelines.”

No ArtAn immersive digital platform for No Art, bringing its global music and art universe to life through interactive storytelling, releases and events. The look: post-digital techno flyer, liquid chrome render, crop marks, tiny monospaced all-caps labels and scrawled handwritten logo on a grainy off-white panel.

Radical FaceThe official hub for Radical Face: music, tour dates, news, fiction, and artwork from genre-bending artist Ben Cooper, where haunting melodies meet powerful narratives. The look: editorial indie-rock poster, oversized condensed black display headline over off-white paper stock with small stacked label cards, mocked up amid vinyl sleeves.

Urban JürgensenReviving a 250-year-old Swiss-Danish watch brand with a bold digital ecosystem, where timeless heritage meets a striking new voice. The look: collage moodboard, layered photo cutouts, taped edges, handwriting and cream paper ground assembled like a physical pinboard. Its headline: “time kept and spent beautifully.”

Art Here 2025 - Richard MilleThe digital exhibition of 2025 "Art Here" by Richard Mille and Louvre Abu Dhabi explores the theme "Shadows" through an immersive 3D journey where light and darkness reveal art. The look: 3D render minimalism, a laptop mockup perched on pale plaster plinths in raking sunlight, all neutral beige geometry with a glossy sphere on screen.

Studio AlphonseWebflow site for a production studio and post-production lab based in Reunion Island. Variable font for unique covers, and CMS lets the client update their catalog independently. The look: retro cartoon sticker art, noodle-limbed mascot characters with white keylines scattered as die-cut stickers on cream paper, plus bold condensed badge lettering.

Superlocal Design Festival 25Superlocal Design is a creative festival in Uruguay connecting brands, designers, and innovators through unique experiences. The look: 1960s-70s flower-power modernism, a flat geometric daisy with radiating orange rays on saturated blue, paired with tiny all-caps grotesque labels.

Der BaukastenInteractive 3D website for a magnetic toy set with modular animals, custom GLSL shaders, and playful parallax UI—blending design, animation, and code into a fun digital experience. The look: Bauhaus constructivism, primary-colour geometric arcs and bars assembled over black with a heavy grotesk wordmark.

IZANAMIHarmony is not something to be created — it is something to be remembered. Guided by the spirit of Wa, Izanami designs harmony across life through School, Craft, and Retreat. The look: cinematic atmospheric photography, a desaturated, fog-shrouded full-bleed photograph with a small centred white mark and letterspaced serif caption, like a movie title card. Its headline: “Remember who you are.”

SOILWe designed and developed the website for SOIL, a project led by the Japan Performing Arts Solidarity Network (JPASN) that promotes Japanese performing arts on a global stage. The look: editorial broadsheet typography, giant tracked-out serif wordmark over ruled horizontal lines, dateline and small caps nav mimic a newspaper front page.

Every site here won a Site of the Day or a Site of the Month. 86 carry this category; the 40 shown are the ones we hold full marks and a palette for, best score first. Scores, categories and each team's own description are published by Awwwards. Studios' own portfolios are excluded throughout.

How art & illustration websites are designed

Art & Illustration Website Design in 2026

What sets them apart

Illustration: drawings rather than photographs. 35% of art & illustration winners, 10% of all winners.
Storytelling: the page walks you through something, in order. 42% of art & illustration winners, 24% of all winners.
Unusual Navigation: menus you have to work out. 16% of art & illustration winners, 10% of all winners.
Colorful: several strong colours at once. 31% of art & illustration winners, 22% of all winners.
Experimental: does something you have not seen before. 21% of art & illustration winners, 15% of all winners.

What they share with every winner

Animation: things move. 67% of art & illustration winners.
3D: objects with real depth, that you can turn or move around. 30% of art & illustration winners.
Interaction Design: you handle it, rather than just read it. 24% of art & illustration winners.
Transitions: smooth changes from one screen to the next. 21% of art & illustration winners.
Typography: headlines set enormous, so the words are the picture. 19% of art & illustration winners.

What they are built with

WebGL on 29% · GSAP on 19% · Three.js on 12% of art & illustration winners.

Art & Illustration website color palettes

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