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Web Design Inspiration : Feeling Distressed
The “distressed” look has been around for a long time and it is a style of design that I really like. I think it’s fair to say that this look tends to be reserved for creative or music related sites as well as extreme sports sites. Generally you won’t see a textured, distressed look on a big corporate or banking website.
The distressed look doesn’t come from a grunge-y font alone. Designers applying this style to their sites use textured elements in their work to remove the clean and shiney computer look. It often gives a “printed on trashed paper” feel or the idea that the website has spent the night sleeping on the street.
The following are a few samples of sites that I like and keep in my “morgue file” for inspiration.
Please feel free to let me know about some of the distressed looking (and I don’t mean sites from the late 90′s that desperately want a redesign) websites you like.
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I really like these designs..do you do tutorials on how to do this things?
Hi Webster,
Thanks for visiting. I’ll try and put together something on how to make a distressed layout. It would make a good tutorial alright.