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...

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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...

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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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