Web Design Trend Showcase: Rockets & Spaceships
Yep, that’s right – Rockets! Probably one of the most obscure mini-trends, but one that’s developed a fair number of examples. Rockets and spaceships are appearing in a range of website designs and layouts, let’s take a look at some examples and find out where we can find some free rocket/spaceship graphics of our own.
Jeff Sarmiento
Turbomilk
Frenzy Labs
Base6 Design
45royale Inc
Rawkes
Paper Launcher
Tomatic
Midiaweb
Sean Geng
RK Launcher
Pojeta
Mozilla Labs Jetpack
Download your own rockets and spaceships
There’s a bunch of cool rocket and spaceship graphics available for free on the web, here’s a roundup of various stock images, icons and general graphics. Be sure to check out the premium stock websites for plenty more resources
To the Moon Icon Set
Space Rocket Photoshop Tutorial
Rocket Stock Illustration
Space Rocket Stock Illustration
Rocket Stock Illustration
Retro Rocket Stock PSD
Create a Simple Spaceship
It’s amazing how you don’t even notice small things like that, and then they become a trend!
I wonder what else is out there?
Nice roundup Chris! I really like rocket/spaceships (who doesn’t?), and I see them too often popping up more and more on the web.
Really like the “fat-rocket” from RK Launcher. Also, nice article by “zooming in” the rockets!
Keep up the great work :)!
So many rockets! I love the paperlauncher milk carton one, nice stuff!
Love this article. It’s amazing how trends like this go under the radar for a while then explode.
We’ll probably see a lot more of these popping up over the next year.
Great write up as always Chris.
I have seen same post somewhere else…
great list…
Here’s another one: http://www.pojeta.cz/ (scroll to the top).
Brilliant, added it to the list!
Nice. I like the overly simple one best (last on the list). I’m a fan of abstractions :) I remember seeing a lot of rockets outside of the web recently, like on shirts and stuff.
There is also : http://www.kinetic.com.sg/
My blog has rockets and spaceships too!
Here it is: http://www.bloggingcss.com
Thanks for the feature of Frenzy Labs!
seems like a pretty crazy trend… but now I know!
Spaceship! Yes. I wanna have one, a real one. A nice dream and a ….. Why it can’t be a trend? Wonderful thinking.
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nice round up. and nice blog
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned that it’s also the 40th anniversary of the Apollo mission to the moon. Maybe all that buzz about space travel has helped encourage this trend.
This article “rocks” :D
add one to the list…
http://apilot.no/funksjoner/
Excellent point Chris. I never really noticed rockets as a trend but looking now, its clear as day that they are ‘out there’…
I am learning how to use Illustrator properly so with some inspiration from this article, I decided to have a quick go at creating a vector of a rocket:
http://declanmcateer.com/downloads/rocketvector.ai
Feel free to use if anyone wants.
Great collection ;)
The sites look fun! Great roundup, Chris!
Rockets always look good and spark the imagination
Amazing! I really loved the milk carton ones!
Space and rockets is a great theme. It seems to be used a lot in website designs. I have often noticed a lot of starry night backgrounds. They are overdone, but they do always look great so it makes sense.
Nice collection of websites there Chris! The rockets seem to fit in with the whole retro trend that seems to be doing the rounds.
That was simply the best post . I will keep visiting your blog so keep them coming
:)
This is such an interesting website.I really loved the pictures.The rocket pictures are attractive.It is a nice website to browse through.
Here goes another list!
Gopal Raju
productivedreams.com
Very nice collection of rockets!
wordpressrevenue.com
Hey Chris, thanks for including my website (Rawkes) on the list.
You may be interested in another rocket type logo I made for a recent project of mine: British Space Organisation.
We love the rockets. http://www.zoom7.com Have a huge collection of vintage and repro in our lobby. Good to others share the love..
Thanks Chris for mentioning us! Here at Turbomilk we like to be in the trend. Hope next trend will be strange vegetables. New project is being launched soon. Stay tuned.
Thanks once again.
Wow, what a unique idea. I love it.
Hi, nice collection, I´m working in a rocket illustration, and this is very helpful. Chris.
nice rocket´s :D helpful inspiration post….ty Chris :D
unique designs. thanks for having this. it gives me idea of what to do.