Texture and pattern showcase on Smashing Magazine

Posted by Vincent on Jul 10, 2008 in Inspiration, Tileable Patterns | 2 comments

Famous Smashing Magazine published a huge inspirational post, which showcases loads of websites that use either patterns or textures as a background. And the best thing about it – highresolutiontextures.com has been included in the “wood” category! This is smashing news and such an honor. Check out the article here! Bookmark...

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Design inspiration: 3 more websites with excellent use of textures

Posted by Vincent on Jul 8, 2008 in Inspiration | 1 comment

Design inspiration: 3 more websites with excellent use of textures

In order to mix it up a little, it is time for some more inspiration. The following websites illustrate, how one can achieve beautiful results in web design through the use of textures. slabovia tv: it has a nice wooden background and contains some concrete and paper textures as well. It is hard to describe, what this website is about, so you have to see for...

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Feature: grunge paper texture tutorial at bittbox.com

Posted by Vincent on Jul 2, 2008 in Inspiration | 1 comment

One of my favorite resource websites bittbox.com has a great tutorial on how to enhance paper textures in order to create a unique grunge paper effect. Head on over to the tutorial. Next to that, the website has a great freebie section with lots of Illustrator and Photoshop brushes and a few more tutorials on how to create you own textures in Photoshop....

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Vintage texture collection at Design Reviver

Posted by Vincent on Jun 17, 2008 in Inspiration | 1 comment

Vintage texture collection at Design Reviver

Henry Jones, the man behind Design Reviver posted a nice collection of vintage textures and photoshop brushes. Next to a great freebie section, Design Reviver also has a few tutorials covering different topics of web development. So what are you waiting for? Head on over to his blog and grab some freebies by clicking here! Bookmark It Hide...

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Design inspiration: 5 websites with excellent use of textures

Posted by Vincent on Jun 7, 2008 in Inspiration | 3 comments

Design inspiration: 5 websites with excellent use of textures

In case you downloaded a few of my high resolution textures and you don’t know how to implement them in your designs, I would like to present you a small list of hand-picked websites, which all make superb use of various sorts of textures. concrete textures Elliot Jay Stocks’ portfolio pikaboo multimedia design wood textures Alex Buga...

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What can you do with all these textures?

Posted by Vincent on May 27, 2008 in Inspiration | 0 comments

What can you do with all these textures?

After presenting you the first 2 texture packs, I now would like to illustrate several possibilities of how to utilize high resolution textures, namely web design, print design and computer game design. web design If you ended up here on this website, you can already see one example of how a texture can be used e.g. as a background graphic. One of my favorite...

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