We all love the light - the sun filtering through the clouds, sunrises and sunsets, refraction off perfectly smooth water - all these ideas conjure images of beauty and serenity. They calm the emotions and invoke a sense that everything is OK. No wonder web designs and graphic designers as a whole use light as inspiration in much of their work.
To highlight how light can be used in web design, we've pulled together this collection of 5 web design contest inspired by light. From the sky to below the surface of the ocean, these crowdsourced website designs portray what is truly magnificent about light.
#1 Mobile Products for Sports and Fitness Website Design
The Brief
A website layout for B2B. Don't need lot's of pages. We need the pretty and nice layout, so we can derive the pages we need. The product is a web solution, backend services and white label mobile apps to log, analyze, share and control sport and fitness activities. The name of this product suite is "Sportics"
Winning Designer: pb
Why we love this web design
- Golden afternoon light is used to highlight the foreground
- The use of natural light makes provides a humanistic feel - making you feel connected to the individual/product
- the perspective and positioning of the light makes it feel like it could be you - ready for a run!
#2 Forces Of Change Website Design
The Brief
We require a professional and captivating website that will instantly impress, engage invite our readers to click & invest their lives.
Winning Designer: pb
Why we love this web design
- Natural light used to highlight contrast between green and orange
- The continuation of light through images
- Light helps to provide a contemplative feeling - meeting the brief
#3 Sonoma County Wine Website Design
The Brief
Needs to be clean, easy to navigate - yet sexy, professional, and catering to a discretionary group of wine drinkers.
Envisioning a gate wooden or steel used in the branding of our website name and website. A vineyard behind the gate with a nice blue sky and the tag below that says - Gateway to Exclusive Sonoma County Wine.
Winning Designer: Ulickay
Why we love this web design
- Light and transparency used to create a feeling of warmth
- Continuation of light from background image to foreground images
- Simple, elegant and matches brief with a little creative license
#4 Scuba Diving Website Design
The Brief
We are looking for a much more attractive website to clients and much wilder looking but at the same time remaining professional design.
Winning Designer: pb
Why we love this web design
- The light through the water makes the image dreamlike
- Light encompasses the diver - making him/her seem almost majestic
BONUS: Loving Lighting Website Design
The Brief
More cohesion in the design and more visual interest in the header, which is pretty basic right now. Also, that the bottom footer is black, I would like instead something else.
Winning Designer: Mayank Patel
Why we love this web design
- Quite literally - light!
- Perspective - the 3d effect provides a visual clue as to how the lamps look and feel
- Simplicity
We hope you enjoyed this list of great web designs contest which used light for inspiration - we definitely did! Do you think these designs deserve the attention? Let us know in the comments.
Written by Clancy Clarke on Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Clancy is the Organic Search manager at DesignCrowd. Clancy has over 7 years of online marketing experience and a passion for analytics. Get in touch via Google+.
