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Web Design Trend Hunting – The Circle As A Design Fetish & 20 Fresh Examples

You can’t browse a decent CSS gallery without spotting a few websites with this sexy round detail, usually on the left, usually with a logo or a name in it, and usually extended as a favicon. We begin our journey with one of our favorite CSS galleries, the clean & creative oriented siteInspire and get to the biggest circle fetishist out there, which seems to be Richad Perez of Skinny Ships. Any comments and suggestions are highly appreciated!

siteInspire

siteinspire

Purple, Rock, Scissors

pruplerock

5pieces

5pieces

Cooper Lumen

cooperlumen

Tink

tink

Uzik

uzik

One International

one

Campbell Hay

campbell

Proud Creative

proudcreative

Public School

publicschool

Beyond the Pixels

beyooundthepixels

Garriock & Associates

ga

Monk

monk

Zara Picken

z

Future Buro

futureburo

Rick Banks

rickbanks

Remote Location

warp

Estetically Loyal

aestetically

Skinny Ships

skinnyships

So, as Banksy said:

thx  jorge martins!


Catalin Zorzini

Catalin is a social media racounteur at Mostash - a small social media studio - and he's always happy to share his passion for graphic design. Catalin Zorzini has 183 posts at Inspired Mag & counting!

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Comments

  1. davidperel July 28th

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    Damn you beat me to it. I have also been collecting sites which follow the circle trend. Nice round up though, you got some which I missed. Personally I am enjoying this trend, I like the softness that they give a site.


  2. inspiredmag July 28th

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    Ha! Glad I was faster :P
    Congrats for your new start guys, thx for the comment, cheers!


  3. Faramarz Hashemi July 28th

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    Fantastic list! I like this this site. you got yourself a new fan


  4. Chris Robinson July 28th

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    Nice roundup


  5. jorgemartins July 28th

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    As Banksy said:

    “Most Things Look Better When You Put Them In a Circle”

    http://bit.ly/uGNfA


  6. Captain_Howdy July 28th

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    Great article! I love reading about these design trends. One day I'll update my blog(s). One day. Haha.


  7. Graham July 29th

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    Nice collection, very interesting how so many are using the circle is very mych the same way.


  8. Ram July 29th

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    Circle design: http://sjelensspeil.no


  9. Clark July 29th

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    Everything looks better when you put it in a circle


  10. Aen Tan July 29th

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    How about http://ateconsulting.net/? It only has circles, text and scrollbars.


  11. Aen Tan July 29th

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    How about http://ateconsulting.net/? It only has circles, text and scrollbars.


  12. inspiredmag July 29th

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    Wow, Ate is on the top of the wave :D Nice find Aen!


  13. inspiredmag July 29th

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    :) ) Didn't know about this one, I'll add it to the post right now, thx!!


  14. inspiredmag July 29th

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    Thx Faramarz, pls stay tuned mate!


  15. sahus July 29th

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    very nice list! surely the circle designs encompass the companies branding and logo design so in their cases it's not really a trend but something that will stick with them for a long time!? However this has given me some inspiration for a new logo design so thankyou!


  16. benjamindauer July 30th

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    Nice examples. Here's another (also and incredibly inspiring source of design related work):

    Grafik Cache: http://www.grafikcache.com/

    Cheers


  17. Jens Muster October 21st

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    Saw loads of that shape on here! http://noncollective.com


  18. Jenson Media November 7th

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    Some great sites there, well done!

    Here is another resource for inspiration and some quality free fonts…

    http://ripetype.com.au


  19. alone January 20th

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    Great post!! Thank you!!


  20. Phil D. January 20th

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    Nice roundup! I too love the circle


  21. Tim Canny January 20th

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    I was thinking the same thing about circles when I designed these logos :] –
    http://www.cafepress.com/gigocorp.284937986
    http://www.opensourcecatholic.com/about-osc


  22. ester January 21st

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    The circle recall the ancient use of seals. The use of this shape is deep connected with the communication. Many old Italian Universities have their logo round.
    Nice theory anyway, I’ll try it me too. ^__^


  23. Douglas Bonneville January 21st

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    This is a well-rounded list. I’ve circled it for further consideration. Had a ball reading it. Didn’t know circles had such a large sphere of influence in design trends.

    I guess if you are looking to be trendy, there is no point reinventing the wheel. Just copy what others are doing, regardless of the circular-logic you might use to justify your rip-off.


  24. Rob Russo January 22nd

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    @Douglas Bonneville

    You had me rolling in the floor … almost laughing.


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