Author: Max Stanworth

Iam the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources that I hope others find interesting too you can also follow me on twitter @designshard.

Ultimate resources for grunge design a massive collection

Im a big fan of grunge and creating grunge designs is one of the most interesting things to do in my opinion whether it be a web design or a piece of grunge art. This post covers where you can find grunge resources such as brushes, textures, tutorials, wordpress themes, fonts and interesting reading articles.

August 18th, 2008 Posted in Inspiration 68 Comments Continue Reading

Typographic + Design inspiration from music magazine ads – pt 2

More typography and design inspiration from music magazine adverts, this post follows on from the first part Awesome artistic inspiration from music magazine adverts.

August 12th, 2008 Posted in Inspiration 16 Comments Continue Reading

Awesome artistic inspiration from music magazine adverts

I was browsing some old NME music magazines and i realised some of the advertisments for festivals and bands truly are works of art, they can provide some good ideas for any designer be it for web or print, lots of textures and colours to get some creative inspiration

August 10th, 2008 Posted in Inspiration 13 Comments Continue Reading

Ultimate Source for tiled background patterns

An excellent resource for repeating background patterns / images, patterns such as these can be used for a host of things such as a web page background and blog backgrounds.

August 5th, 2008 Posted in Freebies 69 Comments Continue Reading

22 Online Web / Design magazines you should look at

While looking for some nice resources i found some really cool online art and design magazines that provide some very interesting reading while i wasnt working, they contain alot of inspirational work and provide a good source of knowledge.

August 3rd, 2008 Posted in Inspiration 21 Comments Continue Reading

Create a stunning grunge background – A video Tutorial

With the release of my 300+ hi-res grunge texture pack i thought id do a nice quick simple video tutorial to create a stunning grunge background using the colours from a photo on deviantart and a texture from the texture pack.

August 1st, 2008 Posted in Tutorials 24 Comments Continue Reading

300+ Free Hi-Res grunge textures you’ve never seen before!

Here is a free Hi-Res texture pack that i have made over the weeks for you all to download, the pack contains over 300 grunge, worn, torn and weathered textures that i have taken in and around my house.

July 29th, 2008 Posted in Freebies 149 Comments Continue Reading

11 Interesting ways to browse Flickr images

Flickr is a great tool but there are so many ways to view the images located on Flickr with these exciting mash-ups, some let you browse by specific colours while others let you browse by tags.

July 26th, 2008 Posted in Inspiration 12 Comments Continue Reading

20 Ultimate sources of web design Inspiration

These days with such busy lives designers are increasingly pressured to produce great work, sometimes a push in the right direction is needed to get the right design inspiration, so here is a must know list of css galleries to get the juices flowing for that next project.

July 25th, 2008 Posted in Inspiration 33 Comments Continue Reading
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