Texture is the most commonly used technique in web design. It often appears on designers own portfolio site, since it is a good way to tell potential clients how good their Photoshop skills are. The advantage of using texture and some cut out photo is it could instantly make your site looks good, but you have to be careful not to lose the ultimate GOAL of the design. I have seen many designers start a design with clean, minimalism idea and end up with an almost grunge design with many textures.
Here I listed 20 well designed sites, their reasons to use the texture is clear and right on topic. The designers had carefully considered and arranged the textures so the design is coherent as a whole. These are some of the best learning examples.
Most popular textures used in web design include paper, wood, fabric and wall. To get more free textures please visit my post on 30+ free paper texture in resources section.
gamesforherbyyou
textures used:paper,wood,lable,fabric
texture used: beach sand.Can’t be more appropriate.
boneproduction
textures used:paper with grunge style
ecoki
textures used:paper again but in a very clean layout
hybrid-genesis
textures used:fabric
sollievo
textures used:paper and leaves
coalmarch
textures used:photo frame and lable
Fish Marketing
This is a interesting one.
texture used:wood
Foxie Graphic
textures used:wall, paper and lable
Church on the rock
textures used:paper,wood,lable
accentuateonline
DK
textures used:paper
jeremy thomas
textures used:paper,leather
Sabalan
textures used:paper,wallpaper
timeforcake
textures used:paper and fabric
slabovia
textures used:wood and paper
carbonica
textures used:fabric
teamgreenonline
textures used:paper
Another travel agency site design
great collection thanks so much
cssah’s last blog post..50 EXTREME grunge brushes pack .
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great collection! check out http://bradbitler.com for another example of using wood as a texture element
brad’s last blog post..Top Five Web Design Galleries To Help Motivate
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alexandra Reply:
April 27th, 2009 at 9:57 am
your site is nice, Where did you get this nice joomla template?
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Nice list!
I really like Carbonica, I think organic and paper textures go really well with this kind of environmental topics.
I agree with what you say in the intro. Using textures make a normal site looks good straight away but because it is so easy I wonder if it is not gonna end up like the glossy web2.0 style: overused.
Wait and see.
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alexandra Reply:
April 27th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Well I still get clients ask for web2.0 styles specifically. Designers like to stay on top of the trend, but normal people could be lagging behind the trend for a Year.
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Fish marketing is interesting. But I like it a lot. Gives me some great ideas.
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