Tuesday Total Textures #35

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection. <!–break–> Click Here to View all Tuesday Total Textures Dirty Wet Window Electronic Texture Fractal Texture Grass and Clovers Red Space Sandstone Stone Wall Hand Print Wall Crack Leaf Texture About the author Hi there! I’m Paulo Canabarro, 24 year old web designer from Brazil currently living in Providence RI, USA.

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Showcase: Textures in Web Design

Textured backgrounds in website design are common, especially in grunge designs. But they’re used in a variety of other design styles, too. Textures can add visual interest to an otherwise-minimalist design, or can add that extra bit of detail that really makes a design pop. Paper textures are by far the most common, but other regularly-seen textures include stone, concrete, rust, and fabric.

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Tuesday Total Textures #34

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection. <!–break–> Click Here to View all Tuesday Total Textures Resugere Today’s TTT is created with texture packs from Resugere which is a Quality Stock and Resources group at DeviantArt.

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Stones: Texture Pack

This set includes 7 high-resolution images with a variety of different stone textures. They are excellent for easily giving your design a rough texture or for use as backgrounds. The large dimensions (3000px-4000px) make them very versatile. This texture pack is available exclusively to Design Instruct readers for commercial and personal projects..

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Tuesday Total Textures #31

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection. <!–break–> Click Here to View all Tuesday Total Textures Blue Fire The Water Window Red Splatter Laser Lights Painted Fire Texture Drop Light Light Tracks Black Ink Smoke Splash Abstract About the author Hi there! I’m Paulo Canabarro, 24 year old web designer from Brazil currently living in Providence RI, USA.

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Announcing the Launch of Vandelay Premier, Exclusive Resources for Designers

Through this blog we have always been committed to providing our readers with fresh, helpful, and inspiring content. Today we are excited to announce that Vandelay Design is extending beyond the blog and is now bring high-quality resources to web and graphic designers! We’ve launched Vandelay Premier , which is a membership-based community, in effort to provide designers with resources to make their lives easier, their work more effective, and their business and careers more successful. There are a lot of marketplaces, membership-based communities, and stock sites where designers can purchase resources. We see value in this variety, and we think Vandelay Premier is different from the others in a few key ways: Career resources in addition to design resources.

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Inspiration – The Work of Graphic Designer Omar Noory

Today’s inspiration is the work of Omar Noory . He’s got a very polished, professional style, and makes great use of typography. He also runs a little shop called "These are Things" were you can buy some of his letterpress pieces. Here is a little bit more about Omar: – 24 year old Ohio native, currently residing in Columbus – Graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design with a major in Graphic Design – Currently working for a motion graphics house named leftchannel (leftchannel.com) – I like to keep myself busy with personal projects.

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Tuesday Total Textures #29

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection. <!–break–> Click Here to View all Tuesday Total Textures Train Abstract Blue Grungy Texture Paper Texture Million Stones Blue Web Golden Bricks Bokeh Termite Wood Holes About the author Hi there! I’m Paulo Canabarro, 24 year old web designer from Brazil currently living in Providence RI, USA.

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Tuesday Total Textures #28

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection. <!–break–> Click Here to View all Tuesday Total Textures Texture Packs Today I selected a few texture packs full of textures so you can enjoy even more your Tuesday Total Textures Bokeh Collection | by proverbios31 Color Grunge Textures | by Princess-of-Shadows Light Textures | by AL-BATAL Old Blocks | by valkiria-stock Rust Textures | by Princess-of-Shadows Summer Textures | by vikyvampirs90 Vintage Grunge | by Princess-of-Shadows Woodwork Textures | by cloaks About the author Hello! I’m Paulo Canabarro, Web Designer born in Brazil, living and freelancing in the US.

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Inspiration – The Work of Designer Ross Bruggink

Today Inspiration is the work of designer Ross Bruggink . He’s got a cool intricate, and super-professional style. You have probably even seen the "Fair Food Fight" logo making the rounds on the blogs. Here’s a little bit more about Ross from his site: Born and raised in the Great Wisconsin Northwoods, Ross now resides in Minneapolis, quite a nice place.

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