25 Excellent Examples of Using Texture in Web Design
Here on WDL, I’ve shown you where to find plenty of amazing free textures, and we’ve given you some exclusive textures as well. Now that you have access to all these resources, I want to give you some inspiration for how you might use them in web design. You’ll notice that some of the designs below make heavy use of textures, while others take a more subtle approach. Each method works well and compliments the content while adding lots of visual interest.
Bush Theatre
Revive Africa
R.U.4 Children
Jason Julien
Ecoki
meshU
Rocket Club
Alpine Meadows
Gary Knock
Bart-Jan Verhoef
Pikaboo
Huxley Prairie Festival
Bridge 55
Jobs on the Wall
84 Colors
Douglas Menezes
Sarah Longnecker
Simple Flame
Crush + Lovely
Danny Diablo
Dawghouse Design Studio
FeedStitch
Ali Felski
Black Wave Creative
Carbonica
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Jun 25, 2009
Great round up. Definitely inspiring as I have a design of similar styles to create tomorrow.
Jun 25, 2009
Very beautiful collection. Especially Ecoki is nice.
Jun 25, 2009
Now THIS is a humbling post – every single one of these designs is awe-inspiring!! They rock!
Jun 25, 2009
Great collection, some of these sites are so pretty
Jun 25, 2009
Very cool. Quite a contrast to the shininess of many other, also cool, website designs. Very inspiring.
Jun 25, 2009
Nice Job! Looks beautiful.
Jun 25, 2009
Ali felski got my vote, very nice and inspiring…pikaboo too well done guys.
Jun 25, 2009
Wonderful sites…wish I had done them. hah! Also…looks like you caught your tweet deck in the Mesh U screenshot.
Jun 25, 2009
@Brett Shumaker – Ha! Good catch. Not sure how I missed that.
Jun 25, 2009
Truly inspiring!
Gopal Raju,
productivedreams.com
Jun 25, 2009
great collection , these are really awesome
84 Colors
meshU
Gary Knock
Bridge 55
Black Wave Creative
Jun 25, 2009
woow very nice post
thanks
Jun 25, 2009
I have really been feeling textures on sites of late. Great timing.
Jun 25, 2009
It depends on the purpose of the website.
“Texture” can end up being the enemy of functionality.
A railway website needs to be functional. Most people just want to find out how to get from A to B and when to turn up.
Cuddlyness gets in the way sometimes!
example: Swiss Rail – http://www.rail.ch
Refreshingly simple and efficient….
Jun 25, 2009
Truly inspirational collection, thanks for the post!
Jun 25, 2009
Excellent roundup. Love the Ecoki site particularly!
Jun 26, 2009
These texture inspirations might just take my site to another level. ty
Jun 26, 2009
A lot more examples of using texture here:
http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/texture
Jun 26, 2009
Thanks for the inspiration! Some cool sites here.
Jun 27, 2009
All designs are beautiful.
Thank you for sharing your Valuable information.
As I am also working for web design this information will help me increase my knowledge.
Jun 27, 2009
Awsome!
Jun 28, 2009
Amazing round up! Douglas Menezes’s site is really something to admire for it’s originality.
Jun 28, 2009
very beautiful web designs i wonder how their designers make them!!
Jun 28, 2009
I love texture in design. In my opinion it looks so much better than glossy sites!
Jun 29, 2009
Nice post, thanks
Jun 29, 2009
Great post! I agree with Nicholas in saying it is much better than gloss. More inviting and friendly, hands down. Thanks!
Jul 2, 2009
A good collection. I would say that just use the one that you need, I think the author not really want you to use everything here, we all know that we have our own style, we use different tools to design those tools we are comfortable using. This is just a variety of tools that maybe one of these are your must-have-tools.
Jul 4, 2009
great! very nice. thanks
Jul 10, 2009
Ha ha! The designer for StitchFeed left an amusing easter egg for visitors with 29″ monitors.
Jul 17, 2009
Nice round-up, particularly like Feedstitch and Carbonica.
Aug 19, 2009
thanks for ur share!
Sep 8, 2009
Great post, great selection.
Oct 29, 2009
using texture in design is a growing trend that I love, love, love. The trick is to incorporate it into the design while retaining a clean look. Those are excellent examples how that’s possible.
Oct 30, 2009
Hey nice collection – you might want to look at http://www.mesonprojekt.com – one more of the texture types
Nov 28, 2009
Very nice collection indeed.
Dec 4, 2009
The Dawghouse Design Studio site is fantastic. Kudos to their website designers. Thanks for putting this collection together.
Cheers,
Cheryl
Azterik Media
Dec 12, 2009
Thanks for including Dawghouse Design Studio to this list!