Wallpaper Wednesday — No. 19

October 10, 2012 at 9:15 pm

On the first Wednes­day of every month, I’m going to pull togeth­er some inspi­ra­tions and resources I have around and make some sweet desk­top wall­pa­pers. It’s usu­ally just going to be one or two at a time. They will be all over the place, from type relat­ed to what­ever cool pat­tern I might be dig­ging at the moment. As always, let me know what you like or if there is some­thing you want to see.

Autumn Leaves

Yeah, I missed the month of September. I’d like to say I made up for it by offer­ing two wall­pa­pers this month, but that did­n’t hap­pen either. The one I do have though is a nice reflec­tion on the sea­son of Fall, along with life and death in gen­er­al as is often asso­ci­at­ed with autumn. That’s ham­mered home by a quote from Ernest Hemingway — set in Citizen Slab. The idea of time also reflect­ed again in the tree rings show­ing age. Stay tuned to the blog to find out how I made the cross sec­tion of the tree. I’m putting togeth­er a tuto­r­i­al to go up in a few days.

Wallpaper Preview - Autumn Leaves and Tree Rings with an Ernest Hemingway quote "You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare..."

Autumn Leaves and Tree Rings Wallpaper Preview

2560 x 1440
1920 x 1200
1440 x 900
1280 x 1024
1024 x 768
640 x 1136 (iPhone 5)

20 Wood Grain Photoshop Brushes

April 16, 2012 at 7:40 am

I love the stuff released over on Bittbox and I’m not ashamed to admit that a ton of my inspi­ra­tion and source mate­r­i­al comes from such an awe­some site. But now it’s my turn to give a lit­tle back to the design com­mu­ni­ty. Today I’m releas­ing twen­ty (that’s right, 20!) wood grain brush­es. Taken from sev­er­al images of a set of built-in cab­i­nets and doors, these brush­es span from sub­tle to high-contrast. Some of the doors had lit­tle nicks and scratch­es which add a lit­tle bit of char­ac­ter as well.

Terms of Use
This prod­uct may be used free of charge for per­son­al or com­mer­cial pur­pos­es. Attribution is not nec­es­sary but you can always give some link-love to www.sparetype.com — it is always appreciated.

Preview

Wood Grain Brushes Preview - Photoshop Brushes, Gimp Brushes, Wood Grain Texture

 

Download the packaged brush file! (.ZIP — 60MB)