Graeme Pirie » trends http://graemepirie.com Web Designer Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:00:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Embossed Design http://graemepirie.com/embossed-design/ http://graemepirie.com/embossed-design/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:24 +0000 Graeme http://graemepirie.com/?p=343 Embossed Design

Over the last few months I’ve noticed a trend for websites to feature an embossed style, with large text and other UI elements given an embossed look to add some depth to the design. I admit to being a fan of this style, and have begun incorporating it into recent designs. With the emergence of CSS 3 techniques such as box-shadow and text-shadow have made it easier to empty this technique without the use of images and below are some of the best examples at the moment.

Jack Osborne:

Jack Osborne

App Zapper:

App Zapper

Lee Munroe:

Lee Munroe

Atebits:

atebits

Inspireling:

Inspireling

Arbent:

Arbent

This is just a small collection of examples and there are a lot more out there, and I can see this trend continuing for a while yet.

]]> http://graemepirie.com/embossed-design/feed/ 2 Design Trends http://graemepirie.com/design-trends/ http://graemepirie.com/design-trends/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:24:31 +0000 Graeme http://graemepirie.com/?p=8 Like any industry, there are fashions and trends within the web design industry and the glossy style of web page design has been dominant over the past 12 to 18 months. It seemed that every site created during this period had glossy elements to it and the style became synonymous with Web 2.0 and was commonly referred to as the “Web 2.0 look” and you couldn’t go anywhere on the net without visiting these glossy sites. The positive aspect of these sites is that a lot of them were very clean designs, often with a white background and that clean style is something that I like and have used in the past.

However it appears that a more artistic style of website is becoming fashionable with sites such as ma.tt and rawkes as well as others embracing this style. For more examples of this style, see the post on Web Designer Wall which lists some of the finest examples of this style. I think it was a change that was coming due to the large number of sites that looked the same as the last, and it was only a matter of time before a different style became the fashion.

I must admit I tried to aim for the more artistic and textured style when designing this site by aiming for this “desktop” idea of design, although I am not 100% happy with it yet as I feel it could be improved yet. Although like any design process, there were a couple of other designs that were dreamt up and dismissed before this design became the favoured one.

I think the glossy style has gone and will this artistic style will become more widespread over the next 12 months or so, and it will be certainly a style that I incorporate into projects in the future.

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