20 Websites with Amazing Textured Design Elements

Website designs with textured elements are very eye-catching and inspire a certain attention to details, which makes them stand out from the crowd. As a designer, you have to be extra careful when using textures in websites, because you don’t want to over do it. To help you out, we’ve selected 20 great examples of using textures in web design, and we hope they will inspire you in creating awesome projects!

Even more, of you want to add some cool, high quality, free textures to your collection, check out these 100+ High Resolution Textures to Use as Website Backgrounds.

Trailer Park Truck

Trailer Park Truck is a Los Angeles based Food Truck serving hamburgers and delicious grilled food down home style. They have a really nice website with bold, large typography and vintage graphics. 

The Soup Peddler

The Soup Peddler delivers soup in recyclable containers via bicycle. Includes profiles of recent soups, tips on integrating cycling into daily lifestyle, and links to slow food. Their website is friendly, comfy and has some really nice textured graphics with cute, handwritten fonts.

The Ship and The Sea

This website’s purpose is to feature the Autumn Film latest album. The background is a beautifully painted and also, the overall graphics blend nicely together.

Team Fannypack

From its humble beginnings as a joke, Team Fannypack grew to become one of the most awesome teams to participate in the Salt Lake City Multiple Sclerosis walk. Their website has a unique design, all info is structure on only one page, designed to look like a vintage newspaper.

StockdeRock

StockdeRock is an event planning company. Their website has a dark, grungy feel, with beautiful paper textured elements. Want more event planning websites? Check out these Top 20 Wedding Photography and Event Planning Website Templates & Themes.

Sand and Starfish

Sand and Starfish is a blog about cooking, sewing and making fun crafts. The design seems a bit crowded but all the graphic elements go very well together and create a beautiful, unique blog.

Quince Bistro

Quince Bistro is a mid Town Bistro located in Toronto, Canada. Their website is simple, minimalist and has some really nice background textures.

Pulp Fingers

Pulpfingers is a human sized team of developer and designers devoted to create beautiful, useful, features packed apps for the iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch.

Notorious Design

Notorious Design - the portfolio of Victoria Burrows. It has some grungy textures and really nice typography. It’s definitely a great source of portfolio design inspiration.

Mother Earth Brewing

Born in the summer of 2008, Mother Earth is the dream-child of Stephen Hill and Trent Mooring, two guys from Kinston, North Carolina, a sweet southern town in the heart of the old tobacco belt.

Monkeynuts

Monkeynuts - Steak House / Wine Bar is located in Crouch End, North London. Their website is simple and has a really nice background wood texture.

Me in Motion

These guys have an amazing website! It may be Flash, but it loads fast and it’s interactive. You can spray paint the background!

Maryland Craft Beer Festival

The Brewers Association of Maryland (BAM), founded in 1996, is the non-profit trade association of Maryland brewing companies.

Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor is a digital image artist and photographer working in Gainesville, Florida who uses a flatbed scanner in place of a traditional camera. The website is designed with Flash and has beautiful graphic elements.

La Masa Mimatta

This is a beautifully designed catering/food website with some really nive vintage textured elements,

Jumbalaya

Jambalaya is a fast paced word game for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The websit is simple and has a layout typical to app featuring, but what makes it special is the use of wood textures.

Duplos by Ricardo Mestre

Ricardo Mestre’s online portfolio – this website will amaze you with its wonderful graphics and well chosen textures.

Dearest Nature

Launched on the first day of Spring 2012, Dearest Nature is the design blog by Donaville Herrick, where you can expect to find carefully curated and wonderfully created content inspired by nature.

Dan Conaway

Dan Conaway is an advertising, branding, creative strategy and communications consultant in Memphis, and the region’s most recognized copywriter.

code23

Code23 are a group of interactive individuals determined to make a difference to your brand and create staggering online work for their clients.

Daily Dose of Fun: 10 Funny Videos for Designers

Designing is fun, even when you are dealing with annoying, stubborn clients. After a hard day at work, come here and relax by watching these hilarious videos for designers. If you want more designer’s fun, check out these 20 Hilarious ‘Clients from Hell’ Quotes from Designers which will surely brighten up your day. Know more designer fun sources? Feel free to share them with us!

South Park – Mac vs. PC

The never-ending ‘war’between Mac users and PC users – this South Park parody video it’s super funny and it doesn’t matter on which side you are on..you’ll be laughing at the end!

Font Fight – CollegeHumor

It’s an all-out typeface-off in their sequel to Font Conference.

Graphic Designer Baby

What happens when your father is a graphic designer with way too much time on his hands and the ample use of Photoshop? Here is the result.

How NOT to use PowerPoint

Life After Death PowerPoint by performer Don McMillan.

Your Business Card is Crap

Funny but true! Check out Joel Bauer‘s training! His videos on his site are pretty insane. He knows his stuff!

 Original Design Gangsta

Gangsta rap-style video about graphic design.

PC vs Mac spoof

Spoof comedy clip for PC vs Mac with Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs.

Holiday Photoshop Advert

A very amusing photoshop ad clip.

The Graphic Avenger – Trust Your Graphic Designer

The Graphic Avenger explains why you should always trust your graphic designer.

Graphic Designer vs Client

Annoying voices, but still super funny!

20 Funny Clients Quotes Turned into Creative Posters

Clients can be a real pain in the ass sometimes, all designers know that. It’s almost impossible to find a perfect client and most of the time we work for stubborn, complicated people who make our designing process very hard.  After a hard day of work and never-ending discussions with annoying clients, we can relax and enjoy reading about funny situations told by other designers.  If you loved our  20 Hilarious ‘Clients from Hell’ Quotes from Designers post then you’ll like this one too! Creative designers turned the funniest clients from hell quotes into original graphics and made these funny posters.

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Can we dial down the CHILL factor…and then dial up the FUN factor by around 25%?

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Can we just use the image from the internet?

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We feel that red isn’t right for Christmas

4.

“Can you turn it around in Photoshop so we can see more of the front…?”

5.

LO-RES?? But I don’t understand…if you can’t make it any bigger how are you able to enlarge it on the screen?

6.

Too much white space – Less is more

7.

I did this at home with Microsoft Paint.

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We love your style! Try a thinner black line, lots more color..and lose the texture. If you could make your characters look more…em…normal that’d be great. Oh..and we need it for TOMORROW before noon.

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The target audience is males and females aged zero and up.

10.

I really like the colour but can you change it.

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Looks great however…the copy seems to be in latin, but could be Italian or Spanish.

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Can you use more fonts?

13.

“What’s your rate?”
“50 EUR per hour.”
“Can I come and watch you?”
“Of course, 100 EUR per hour.”
“What if I help you?”
“That would be 500 EUR per hour.”

14.

We want it to look like this but don’t copy it, just make it different enough but keep it the same!

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I’m not sure that a globe and passport represents travel.

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That just doesn’t look premium!

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Let’s debrief …on the brief.

18.

How fast is your Paint?

19.

Irish people can’t read italics.

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Yeti Sighting: 20 Examples of Yeti’s in Web Design

Who doesn’t love yeti’s? This illusive, mythical creature has been in movies, TV, books and other media for years. But in recent years we have noticed more and more that they are popping up in web design. Whether they are being used as a mascot, the design itself or in the background imagery. So I have put on my yeti tracking gear and gathered 20 examples of yeti’s being used in web design!

1. Yeti: mobile, social & web

2. Yeti Media

3. Adopt a Yeti

Did I mention you can make your own yeti & share it with your friends? How awesome is that!

4. Foundation by ZURB

5. Done it Yeti

6. Converge

Technically a Bigfoot but it’s in the snow so I’m saying it’s a yeti.

7. Preparis

8. Class Realm

9. Yeti Park

I would take up skiing if I got to meet a yeti.

10. Ski Utah

11. Great Divide

12. Blue Mic

13. Snow Safe

14. Winter Kids

15. Monster Isle

16. Hello Yeti.

Kind of scary but maybe he’s just misunderstood.

17. 344

One of my favorite artists is Stefan Bucher so when he designed a yeti for Saks Fifth Avenue I couldn’t have been happier.

18. The Awkward Yeti

19. Yeti Frozen Custard

20. Mr. Yeti Slushy

Got any more yeti’s to add to the list? Share in the comments below!