Visual Arts
1778 sites
https://salvaged.nu/
Salvaged.nu is a preservation project dedicated to recovering, repairing, and reuploading Photoshop resources from lost personal blogs of the mid-2000s, including brushes, textures, stock images, patterns, and icons. It's a remarkable archive for digital artists and nostalgia seekers who want to reclaim the distinctive aesthetic of early-2000s web graphics and design tools.
https://vasilis.nl/nerd/old/my-computer-generates-random-stuff-heres-why
Vasilis van Gemert explores the nature of beauty and aesthetics by commanding his computer to generate random color combinations, shapes, layouts, and prints as a tool for artistic discovery. The site documents a fascinating generative art project that produces daily randomized images, books, and prints, blending code with visual experimentation in a way that doubles as both personal research and a useful tool for designers.
https://taora.neocities.org/
A dreamlike personal site by 'taora' featuring a collection of illustrated original characters with names like Saya, Anaidde, Rei, and Shiroi, each appearing to have their own dedicated card or page. The site has a quiet, poetic atmosphere with literary epigraphs and a slow, deliberate update cadence that makes it feel like an intimate creative world being built over time.
https://ninjaweb.neocities.org/
Ninjaweb is a personal creative hub featuring sections for drawing, art, writings, and a journal, built with a distinct hand-crafted old-web aesthetic. The site offers a mix of personal expression through its Draw-Box, MP3 collection, references, and other eclectic sections that reflect the creator's artistic interests.
https://speedshow.net/speed-show-fun-is-back
SPEED SHOW is an exhibition format created by artist Aram Bartholl that transforms public internet cafes into one-night gallery spaces for browser-based internet art, open to anyone anywhere in the world. This page documents the 'Fun is Back!' edition held in Stuttgart in 2011, curated by Olia Lialina and Bartholl, featuring browser-based works by students of Merz Akademie.
https://www.mearso.co.uk/
Kevin Mears is a designer and web developer with 30+ years of experience who uses this site to share his sketchnotes, blog posts, weeknotes, and a fun collection of UK university logo reviews. Featured in the classic Zen of CSS Design book and author of his own sketchnoting guide, Kevin's site blends visual creativity with a love of design and the open web.
https://webrocker.de/
Webrocker is the personal blog of a Frankfurt-based creative who shares illustrations, photography, web design work, music discoveries, and observations from daily city life. With over 2,400 posts spanning code, art, street photography, and cultural commentary, it is a rich and eclectic window into one person's creative and intellectual world.
https://kookoioi.neocities.org/
A creative personal site by kookoioi featuring original art, a character page with bios, and a game log, all wrapped in a stylized old-web aesthetic. Updates show consistent activity including new artwork posts, fanlistings, and a growing links collection, making it a cozy corner of the indie web.
https://y2kitty.neocities.org/
Y2Kitty is a nostalgic personal site by a creator who rediscovered Neocities, dedicated to original characters, designs, and the aesthetic of the early internet era from 1996 to 2005. The site is still growing, with sections for OCs, character designs, and a guestbook, all wrapped in a cozy old-web atmosphere.
https://mlklucasb.neocities.org/
Lucas 'BPM' Benjamin's personal corner of the web, built as a creative outlet combining his love of programming and drawing, with pages dedicated to art, original characters, articles, shrines, and reviews. The site is written in Portuguese and has been actively updated since early 2025, growing into a charming collection of personal expression and web experimentation.