39 Grunge Websites

Here’s a collection of websites that exemplify dirty, torn, distressed and grungy.
This is a follow up to last week’s 39 Grunge Resources Post.

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39 Grunge Resources: Tutorials, Textures, Fonts, Themes, Brushes and Icons

A collection of tutorials and resources useful when trying to accomplish the grunge, worn and dirty style of design.

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The Typography of the Quantum Of Solace

While watching the latest James Bond flick, the Quantum Of Solace, I couldn’t help but notice the beautiful typography used throughout the film. Whenever visiting a new location in the film there would be a short intro shot showing you where the events are taking place. Enjoy.

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New Blog Design

I converted my old free theme to my own custom theme around 2 weeks ago, but didn’t get the chance to finish correcting a few things until earlier this week. So if you’ve been reading via RSS you might not have noticed the update.
I don’t know if I would call it that much of an improved [...]

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What I Hate About Becoming a Designer

It’s been a year since I started to get more into the design aspect of computers but I’d like to share some things that frustrate me as I make this push.
1. Seeing Everything Through a Designer’s Eyes

This is the biggest change for me. The more I get into and learn about design the harder I [...]

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20 Coffee Shop Logos

While looking through the logo idea books at my local bookstore, I noticed that many of the examples come from the coffee industry. I thought it might be nice to see some of them grouped together, so get your caffeine on.
Starbucks

Caribou Coffee

Firenze

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Beginning SEO: 5 Basic Tips

These are just a few SEO tips I’ve learned while trying to become a better designer.
Use your Headers
The header tags (<h1><h2><h3><h4><h5><h6>) are designed to structure your site’s content based off their importance. Don’t use custom CSS tags for things like titles of pages or subtitles, modify the existing <h1> and <h2> tags instead.
Hyphens vs. Underscore
Use [...]

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Web Designers and Sites that Inspire Me

Here are a few of the sites that I feel have helped the most with getting me to start a career in Web Design.
Wake Up Later – Run by Samuel Ryan, this site most closely resembles what I want to accomplish through my blog. It features informative articles about freelancing, methods for passive income, SEO [...]

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