At the beginning of last class, I was frustrated and not really paying attention because all I wanted to do was have a critique for our mock-ups we created for Cafe Artesano. However, just this weekend I’ve been looking around for some inspiration for good navigation, backgrounds, layouts and found that some websites that have been created are absolutely amazing! i actually found this site that has eighty different examples of large backgrounds that have been used, and how well they work.
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/80-large-backgrounds-websites/
Once I started to go through this site I found my favorite one. Something about illustrative backgrounds just amaze me and I pick them out everytime.
This website is called n.design studio and while I was scrolling around through it, found out it is a design blog website focusing on illustrations, stock icons and CSS websites. It has a sweet Blog page where I found themes you can use for WORDPRESS! 
There are also Illustrator and Dreamweaver tutorials where you can chose what you would like to learn, and read along with the creator’s blog to see what he is up to.
Wallpaper Design
I thouroughly enjoyed this website. Looking through his porfolio, (which is full of graphic design, logo designs, web designs, and vector illustrations by the way) kept me very interested. This one is definitely for the favorites. The only thing I didn’t like? While looking through his archives, it looks like the last blog was written in June 2009. I would definitely like to keep visiting and maybe one day he’ll update!
For those of you who like the illustrative aspect, I reccomend looking through this site and also the first one I mentioned to look at other great backgrounds created.
Have fun!
Jasmin
