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Textures In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices
Designing an awesome minimalist web design can be great, but adding in the textured elements to it can turn it into a visually stunning piece of artwork.
Today’s article will showcase some of the coolest designs that utilize textures and will also link you to some tutorials that will show you how to turn your website designs into a textured masterpiece :)
Daily Payne ↓
David Arnback ↓
Information Highwayman ↓
Vegas Uncork’d ↓
Bunton ↓
Epic Event ↓
Snook ↓
The Less is More Tour ↓
Pilates El Paso ↓
Cooper Graphic Design ↓
James Childers ↓
One.Twenty.Seven ↓
Aaron Moody ↓
Frish Design Studio ↓
TO DO’ ↓
Analog ↓
Clockwork ↓
Bahur78 ↓
Kultgrafix ↓
Thiago Leao ↓
IndoFolio ↓
Champions For Africa ↓
Deren Keskin ↓
Thomas Maier ↓
Jimmy Melrose ↓
Box of Pandora ↓
MatHem ↓
Kaue Ribeiro ↓
The Painted Door ↓
New Worship Media ↓
Building your own website with textures
Below are some tutorials that I believe will be useful in learning how to use textures in web design. I hope you enjoy them – and if you know of any others, feel free to drop a comment and let us know.
- How to design a band website layout in photoshop
- Create a sleek high end website design from scratch
- Design a clean photoshop portfolio web page layout
- Design a cartoon grunge web layout
- How to create a grunge web design using photoshop and code it too
- BONUS: Create a slick and accessible slideshow using jquery
About the author:
Mike Smith releases wordpress themes on a regular basis and is also a blog designer at Guerrilla.
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January 26th, 2010
Some beautiful websites, thanks for sharing!
January 26th, 2010
Very inspirational. I know textures are one of the trends to watch out for this year and will be involved in a lot of the designs we see this year. We have introduced textures into our website but too heavy. Bookmarked as a resource, cheers.
January 26th, 2010
Very nice examples, Mike. Seems everyone found the right amount of textures without overdoing it.
Cheerio Eva
@friendsofdesign
January 26th, 2010
beautiful examples, thx a lot. :-)
January 26th, 2010
Hey here is a good example of textures – http://www.insafehandschildcare.com
:)
January 26th, 2010
I’m honored to be featured along side some of these great designs!
January 26th, 2010
Very good line-up and great inspiration. Textures always help a site out and seems like you can never go wrong with them.
January 26th, 2010
Awesome list! I love the use of textures. However, I have to be honest and say that I really need to stop looking at these lists. I get so many new ideas and not enough time to implement them.
Seriously though, great round-up. The sites featured are really top notch.
January 26th, 2010
Nice collection of not only textures, but also typography explorations. Thanks!
January 26th, 2010
Great list! Inspirational for sure. Another portfolio (mine) to utilize texture:
http://www.nickhand.net
Not meaning to spam, just another example of nice texture!
January 27th, 2010
very inspiring .. thanks :)
January 27th, 2010
Designing an awesome minimalist web design can great, but adding in the textured elements to it can turn it into a visually stunning piece of artwork.
sorry to bust but would hate for someone to be turned off by a missing word.
can…be?…great
Great post thanks for sharing
January 27th, 2010
@mcclept: thanks for spotting this, just fixed it :)
January 27th, 2010
Thanks for including IndoFolio :)
January 27th, 2010
Some nice sites here! Thanks for adding my site (http://dailypayne.com)!
January 27th, 2010
Great list for inspiration and ideas! Thanks for taking the time to showcase these designs.
January 27th, 2010
I enjoyed looking at those. It was right up my street. This stuff now for my site!
January 28th, 2010
A super duper collection of textured design trends in web design.
January 30th, 2010
Nice article! A great collection of sites which use textures! I have taken some good ideas from this post :-)
February 8th, 2010
Nice collection. I love textured websites, textures add that little bit of depth that can really make a website pop. I especially like Pilates El Paso and Daily Payne. Good work!
February 16th, 2010
Really inspiring stuff, I like using textures on my sites – often I think that the more subtle ones work the best!
March 24th, 2010
Great list and thanks for posting. Also, thank you for posting my site. It’s much appreciated and it feels nice to be mentioned with beautifully designed sites such as these.
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