Inspired by Nature: 27 websites with Wood
19.02.08Filed Under: Inspiration, Web Design
Nature elements especially wood can be seen in many website design nowadays. The natural textures and shading of the wood surface and color can make a website looks rich in texture and green in feel. Even well known web designers like Alex Buga and Shane Seminole Mielke also used wood as part of their portfolio site design.
Wood mainly being used as a website’s background image, but there’s some other websites use wood for other purposes as well. It’s fascinating to see how different wood color and texture can give different feelings to enhance the design. However, this does not mean that simply using wood texture can make the design nice. Many other design elements like font, color schemes etc has to take into consideration as well, in order to be harmonic with the wood. Well, you can learn from the 27 good website designs that with wood.
Below are the 27 websites with wood. Click the image to link to the site.
David Hellmann
Brand Neu Sense
Joe’s Crab Shack
AIGA HI | 50
allmaple
Art of Wood
.authenticstyle.
bandPush.ca - Demo Tapes and Dreams
Buffalo - web design & E-commerce
Carsonified
Delicious Library
Dřevo Durák
Fingal Creative Communications
Henry Jones
Heron Dias
|-||_|$|-| = Design, Direction, Animation, Production
ISO50 - The Visual Work of Scott Hansen
…. Joe & Leo’s ….
life in mono | a photographic journal of kalon edser
Lounge Lizard - Interactive Design Firm
Mick Fanning - Official Site
Stacy’s Pita Chips
…::: RUNKID v2.0:::…
Spike Productions
Sully’s Design Studio
TESTEMALE-PHOTOS.COM
Vida Comunicação
More wood inspiration:
10 Websites with wood - Tutorial Blog
Wood - The Best Designs
Design Melt Down - Got Wood?
Wood resources:
Texture King - Wood
Textures.forrest.cz
Texturez.com - wood
Deviant Art - wood
References: The Best Designs | Design Link Database | Straightline.jp | Web Design Index by Content
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Actually, I really like wood texture. Thanks for sharing all those sites with splendid designs.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:19 pmHi, Jay! Thank you for visit my siye! I love wood texture too~
and thanks for let me know that my site got challenge in XHTML Challenge.
Cheers!
February 19th, 2008 at 8:18 pmYeap, i thinks textured WebDesign is new trend for 2008 with “Beige” color
February 26th, 2008 at 3:37 amThat a very cool list, I love Carsonified, Authentic Style, Band Push & Henry Jones websites a lot
yeah, textures bring richness and depth to web designs. I like Band Push too!
February 26th, 2008 at 10:06 amYou forgot http://www.cssartillery.com
cheers!
March 6th, 2008 at 2:53 amhi, u have a great website! Thanks!
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