Awesome Website Mascots!
May
Today, I am looking at a different type of visual identity and branding. Logos, since the dawn of the internet have been used to identify a person, group or company. And till this day they are being used with creative logo designers producing daily logos for their clients. However, there a some sites that like to be a bit different and move away from the typical logo. Instead they personify their work/aims into a character of some description. From cartoon businessmen to dinosaurs, I believe illustrations – or as they’re are more commonly addressed – mascots give a website a personality and are a great way to relate to the reader.
There are hundreds of great mascots all over the web. I have found a varied collection which I hope inspire you.
Awesome Mascot Tutorials
Interested in creating your own? Then take a look at these great tutorials:
How to create a website mascot
Create a vector mascot with the pen tool
Mascot design in real time order
Thanks for reading!
Liam McCabe
Discussion
there are some nice characters on http://www.paymo.biz too!
@will well twitter use a logo – the blue white text – the bird is user created.
@Andrei thanks for the link!
Okimok, Soul Deep, Digimurai = megacute!
@Type08 hehe same!
Is it me or does the freelanceswtch mascot look a little creepy?
nice list, thanks for share..
@joyo thanks and no problem!
Great list – thank you so much for including me!
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Your welcome Selene!
Haha Liam, it is certainly original!
Nice list!
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A very nice list Liam! Thanks for including our tut!
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Thanks Marc
Thanks and your welcome Johnson!
SquidChef works for http://squidchef.com but he doesn’t consider himself as a mascot…
Nice web sites.
@Piotr well I would consider it as a mascot, I don’t see how it isn’t a mascot :/
@Dario Yep
You missed the great Sosfactory, the best mascot creator I have ever seen!!!!
http://www.sosfactory.com/mascot-design.html
Bye!!
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Surely everybody knows of the legendary sosfactory?
@Liam i’m talking about his ego, not my intentions when creating him
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the cat from cats who blog and cats who code is awesome too!
Yep, you got to love mascots, putting on in my site although its not done yet
Sort of like the weeme that MSN did years ago at the end of the yahoo chat room era
thanks for posting!
Amazing! Thanks for such a Good thing. Keep up Good work.
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