(Note: Originally published on Carsonified’s Think Vitamin)
Integrating Illustration Into Interface Design
Illustration in web design is the “handmade” of our industry and it’s taking us to exciting places, but my journey into integrating it into design started with a glorious guffaw!
A few minutes after publishing an article on DesignSwap, I had a forehead-smackworthy moment. Among the accolades I had inadvertently forgotten to give credit to the illustrator. Embarrassment aside (forgiveness was granted), my oversight struck me as a perfect article topic.
Over the past two years, illustration has emerged as a hot trend in web design, but how a web designer partners with an illustrator in web design isn’t necessarily clear.
The trend towards hand-drawn stands out to me, because after an era of rounded corners and polished presentation, I think illustration is revealing that both consumers and makers of web design crave original, personal, and humanized content.
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