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08 Apr 2009

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15 Beautiful Sky Textures

The sky can take on so many forms and can also create so many forms of inspiration and design. Clouds, weather, stars, day and night all make for great design.

Enjoy these 15 Beautiful Sky Textures found on Flickr. All are large scale, high resolution– great for backgrounds or texture use.

Clouds on Steroids

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28 Feb 2009

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40 Textures Inspired by Nature

There are a lot of things you can do with texture in web design, and it’s always an inspiring challenge to think of interesting ways of utilizing them. One of my favorite inspiration methods is nature, and what a better way to use nature in web design than to look at alternative views of nature through texture.

I’ve collected 40, relatively large textures created by nature under the categories of rock, leaves, water, ice, wood, animal skins/fur, feathers, grass, and sand. With the shapes, depth, and color nature can create on it’s own, using these textures to create art is only a small step away.

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