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20 Best Resources for Creating Autumn Designs
12‘Tis Autumn at last and time to start designing for the times! This is one of the seasons where you have lots of options. You can stick with the Halloween vibe or go with a harvest tone, but where to begin?
We’ve rounded up a few ideas you can start with from your standard design elements and tools — from backgrounds to brushes and even some CSS color palettes to get your create juices flowing.
Backgrounds
Whether you’re designing for a newsletter or brochures, backgrounds set the stage. Check out some of these clever photos and designs:
Textures
You can use textures on just about everything: add subtle tone to your typography or dramatically alter your design. Here are a few to get you going:
Brushes
What’s a good Autumn design without some leaves or trees? Enough said:
CSS Color Pallettes
Here’s an idea: why not change up the colors on your website to celebrate the season? With a few strokes of your keys, you can change your headers and other elements to match with Autumn colors. Here are a few palletes generated using Adobe’s Kuler tools.
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Tara Hornor
Tara Hornor enjoys writing about branding, web and graphic design, desktop publishing, marketing, and advertising for PrintPlace.com, an online printing company. She strives to help freelancers and business owners succeed in designs for their PrintPlace.com business cards and posters. Be sure to check out @TaraHornor on Twitter.
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wow…nice collections to use for my web projects
Awesome!
lovely backgrounds!
not that I would do seasonal websites (to be honest I think that it is something really stupid, except you are in the flower or garden business.)
But I like the general idea of the article to give Resources to a special Design Topic. I would like to see something like this for other Design Styles like grunge, glossy, minimal or 3D-style as well… At least with a style, I like, too.
I agree in that a website should only do seasonal designs if it relates to their business; however, a little seasonal aspect that you add or change (such as an icon or a graphic) could be nice.
Brilliant resource of autumn designs, really a good concept of designing. Thanks for giving us such a useful share.
amazing!! beautiful!!
sadly, on this(my) side of the planet is spring
any resource for that?
Sorry, Hernan! This did occur to me that this post would only work for this side of the equator.
Nice resource of autumn designs, really a good concept of designing.
wow ! Just amazing, All the designs are mind blowing.
Thanks tara, you’re a star…
Brilliant color schemes! Thank you for sharing.