36 Comments

• Matt Davey
  May 3, 2008
  

  Thanks, I was a little worried about posting a picture of myself as a zombie all over the net but I think once the zombie invasion begins It’ll be okay.

  Thanks for featuring my site

• lex
  May 3, 2008
  

  i love the cat in Superawesome

• lex
  May 3, 2008
  

  nice portfolio Matt!

• Henry
  May 3, 2008
  

  Matt,
  Zombie invasion or not, I think your work is excellent!

• Harmen
  May 5, 2008
  

  I wish I could make that

• mooty
  May 5, 2008
  

  awesome list, but the swizzle design and photoshop lady sites use the same girl, swizzle took away the glasses. shes on istock so i wouldn’t be surprised if a few more sites are using her too. i love the silverback gorilla, very cool illustration.

• web designer
  May 6, 2008
  

  all websites and vector illustrator is awesome

• Travis
  May 7, 2008
  

  Great list. But Matt Davey’s site should be .co.uk, not .com, which redirects to search ad pages.

• Henry
  May 7, 2008
  

  Travis,

  Thanks for pointing that out. It is fixed. Sorry, Matt

• GStar
  May 8, 2008
  

  Alot of these are istock illustrations, very cheap and hardly reak of design inspiration. Why would a web design company use stock illustration when theyre supposed to be designers???

• Fubiz
  May 8, 2008
  

  Love Swizzle and Freelance Switch!

• Robert
  May 8, 2008
  

  Hi. Nice post. I would add http://blackmoondev.com as well

• lex
  May 8, 2008
  

  Gstar: hardly reak of design inspiration? let me see your work!!

• Brett Adams
  May 8, 2008
  

  Check out http://www.startupstudents.com for a good example.

• Wow
  May 8, 2008
  

  It looks like the internet is a very white place…

• iqranegara
  May 8, 2008
  

  OOT:
  a very nice blog themes. can i copy it? email me pliz

• Henry
  May 8, 2008
  

  iqranegara,

  I appreciate your interest, but I would like to try and keep the look of this site unique.

• Wez
  May 9, 2008
  

  Thanks very much for the add!

  Our divlets salute you!!

• deyon
  May 9, 2008
  

  Freelance Switch is like #1..well for me

• Jack
  May 11, 2008
  

  The freelanceswitch char is also stock. You might want to reconsider including sites that use stock illus for their brand

• madewira
  May 11, 2008
  

  cool! i have one.. but seems too harsh

• elyorch
  May 13, 2008
  

  please see this site:
  http://www.1978.com.mx

• Santiago
  May 21, 2008
  

  I would add http://www.cuoma.com/blog

• Leesy
  May 23, 2008
  

  Great list. A few did make me smile. Like has been mentioned though, I did spot at least 4 on that list are stock illustrations from the same artist – ChihHang Chung (iStockPhoto page: http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=1422459). That said, the guy’s illustration are just amazing and fully deserved to be used all over the shop.

• vectors
  Jun 4, 2008
  

  nice list, its a shame many of the sites are dead.

• Jase
  Jun 12, 2008
  

  So many of these are copy & paste eanka the big headed polish girl seems to have borrowed or shared her looks elsewhere.

  Photoshop lady has a double too.

  Shameful

• Stalman
  Jun 12, 2008
  

  Yeah, 3/4 of these are from iStockphoto artists, almost all from the same artists. They’re still great, but you’re giving credit to the wrong people.

  http://www.istockphoto.com/simonox
  http://www.istockphoto.com/RUSSELLTATEdotCOM
  http://www.istockphoto.com/chihhang
  http://www.istockphoto.com/molotovcoketail

  And there are two others there I recognize, but I can’t recall who did them.

  Re: Gstar “Why would a web design company use stock illustration when theyre supposed to be designers???” A design house won’t always have illustrators on hand. Plenty of designs can’t draw worth a darn.

• Wally Kolcz
  Jun 24, 2008
  

  Couldn’t help but notice that Photoshop Lady and SwizzleDesign are the same character. Does that count?

• Pavel Kolodyazhny
  Jul 4, 2008
  

  I would add this character, and some info about its creation.

  We can look for more characters =)

• Rahul
  Oct 5, 2008
  

  This is a great list. My favorite characters are from freelanceswitch.com and verlee.com.

• Darlene
  Oct 15, 2008
  

  Awesome! Most artists were from istockphoto.com contributors.

• Rosina
  Nov 12, 2008
  

  The site\’\’s very professional! Keep up the good work! Oh yes, one extra comment – maybe you could add more pictures too! So, good luck to your team!<

• Molotovcoketail
  Dec 23, 2008
  

  Thanks for featuring freelanceswitch.com with my works on it.

• mobil bekas
  Sep 29, 2009
  

  wooow cool! but i like e space more than the other

  if i cant make one of them =_=

• Laura
  Nov 18, 2009
  

  I’m the designer of Swizzle Designs (that’s our old version) but I wanted to mention to all those that say it’s shameful to use other’s istockphoto work – isn’t that what it’s for?
  I can design websites, but I’m not an illustrator. I chose that particular illustration, took away the glasses and changed the eye color because with those changes, it looks exactly like me (well the features are a bit exaggerated, my face isn’t that round LOL). But I thought I should defend myself since there have been a few harsh comments.
  Thanks!

• Future Webs
  Jan 18, 2010
  

  Some great character designs, Cool!

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