Background: This contest hosted by Smashing Magazine online presents the results of the contest — 45 beautiful blog header designs you can use for free. 38 graphic designers and artists participated; as a result over 100 truly outstanding entries have been submitted and the best ones are displayed here. Among the best, are Nuestra Senora and Betsyness, both of which are designed by an up and coming graphic designer located in the greater D.C. area. Both entries are pasted below:
Nuestra Señora
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“This is a header graphic for my friend’s blog. This is how she initially described it to me: “I have decided on a name for the blog: Nuestra Señora. It is adapted from Los Angeles’ original name: Pueblo de la Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula. Plus it is feminine. I think it suits the blog. I am not sure if other people use the same name on their blogs.
So the concept for the blog is: Los Angeles city politics infused with pop culture. I want to provide a counter-perspective to the city from a life-long Angelino and integrate art, culture, fashion, and more. But again, its all about how the city is changing, I want to be a cynic but also a resource. The blog should be an artifact. I need to write and be creative. The more I think about it, the more I want multiple blogs, but maybe we can do that later or make tabs on the blog page itself. I would like to talk about US politics, the world, pop culture, gossip, everything that encompasses my daily life.” Designed by graphic designer extraordinaire Besty Chang, Washington, D.C.
Betsyness
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url: http://www.betsyness.com
“I’m in the process of creating a website to showcase some of my drawings and paintings. I wanted this header graphic to reflect on my personal style and although created in perhaps the hallmark of the digital art process, Photoshop, to still have a hand-drawn essence to it.”
