50 Inspiring Textured Web Designs
After showing you A Showcase of Clean White Web Designs a couple weeks ago, it’s time for us to add some textured designs to our lists. Textures are a great way to give a special touch to a website. They can be used in a specific part of the layout – the header/footer, for example, or they can be used in the whole page as a background. The thing is that textures are versatile, beautiful and stylish. So here are 50 excellent examples of textures in web design to inspire you.
ok.cogaoke.com
theiheartfilm.com
scheppsdesign.com
giantantmedia.com
adflavor.net
Voices of Haiti
maggietaylor.com
jamesmli.net
freshlimesoda
monkeyworks illustration
jeroenhoman.com
Chalet Minouchet
LogicbombMedia
swiths.com
established1986.com
crush + lovely
Walk to Washington
DPS – Designer Peter Steven
harmonyrepublic.com
bikeandsaddle.com
Istok Pavlovic
spoutcreative.com
custodialabuse.org
the Blizzards
the darling tree
giantantmedia.com
frisk web
villadario.it
Min Tran’s Blog
nickstedt.de
theseen.biz
colazionedamichy.it
Jobs on The Wall
goodbytes.be
Healthy Harvest
dnadarwin.org
spoongraphics
Inspire 2010
kilian muster
carolrivello
xgraphica.com
Ronnie Wright
Camille Boidron
Divensis
KalyanChatterjee
designfabrika
thinkup.org
corvus
pixelthread
baneydesign
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Mar 8, 2010
A very nice list – good for inspiration!
greets from germany…
Mar 8, 2010
There are some really creative and inspiring pieces here. Healthy Harvest is one of my favourites. I like the earthy feel it has, layout and use of colours. This post is definitely inspiring my to do some exciting web design.
Mar 8, 2010
Really good designs but the loading time of some pages takes part of their beauty away. Usability still counts. No matter how inspiring and gorgeous the design is.
Mar 8, 2010
I really like to see different textures on a website, makes it feel more realistic.
Mar 8, 2010
Beautiful. I love textured designs, it brings a whole new element to it, and draws people in. Thanks for the list!
Mar 8, 2010
lovely designs, they really make the site. i do enjoy that think up one
Mar 8, 2010
You have “giantantmedia” over the Cherokee Mills screenshot, might want to change that.
Other than that, great list! Also some nice transparency and texture on http://www.nickhand.net
Mar 8, 2010
This is a FANTASTIC collection. Great post! I love the Harmony Republic site, very cool! A lot of CSS3 in this studios web designs. Can’t wait for IE to jump on board.
Mar 8, 2010
I love how the textures for these designs are not too overpowering..very nice selection..
Mar 8, 2010
Such a nice collection.
What a Brilliant example you have featured here. theseen.biz i love it.
Mar 8, 2010
Hey, thanks for featuring me!
Obrigada Gisele, beijo de Floripa.
Mar 8, 2010
Thanks for the mention, great list to be mentioned in, makes a designer humble
Mar 8, 2010
simply love adflavor.net template
great article thank you
Mar 8, 2010
I love textures! A nice clean site can be quite great, but my favorites to design always have great texture. Thanks for sharing.
Mar 8, 2010
I like the Chalet Minouchet website… Very tidy! Cool collection
Mar 8, 2010
Ah shucks! you missed my website out:
http://www.matthamm.com
Nice list though.
Mar 9, 2010
Thanks for the link!
I feel honoured to see my site alongside all these other brilliant designs.
I don’t know what happened but my redesigned site has been picked up by several design blogs lately, I’m seeing a 700% increase in traffic.
Kilian
Mar 9, 2010
Beautiful collection! My favourites are Healthy Harvest and Spoon graphics. They’re brilliant!
Thanks for sharing
Mar 9, 2010
Nice collection. we get idea from it…
Mar 9, 2010
Superb collection as usual!
Bookmarked and shared for inspiration later in the year.
Cheers,
Lee.
Mar 9, 2010
nice collection here, keep it coming!
Mar 9, 2010
Thanks for the mention, WDL! We’re pumped to be part of such a luscious list.
xo
Jay and the Giant Ant Media team
Mar 9, 2010
Wonderful collection; very inspiring. And thank you for including Corvus Design Studio and our client Healthy Harvest Hydro!
Mar 11, 2010
Glad to see an article about texture. I think it’s an element and principal of art that doesn’t get the attention it deserves on the web.
Here’s a cool technique I like to use:
1. Use a CSS3 gradient or flat background color.
2. Create a black and white transparent png in Photoshop, with the opacity set really low.
3. Overlay the texture image onto the color or gradient background.
It’s pretty easy, it loads fast, and it creates great results. We just did an episode of Doctype that includes this technique: http://doctype.tv/websql
Mar 16, 2010
Great collection! thanks for sharing.
Mar 24, 2010
Great collections. Nice texture in the websites. I like it.
Apr 3, 2010
Awesome round up of textured sites. A few very creative examples in there
Jun 30, 2010
LOVE the designs! Lots of creative inspiration here!.
Jul 12, 2010
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