grunge

In the design world, there are always new and different design trends, that can appear out of nowhere, and pass just as quickly. Smashing Magazine talks about how the Web 2.0 style of web design, glossy buttons; bold colors; reflections; large fonts; and rounded corners;, was a very popular design style and you could see these elements on websites all over the internet. Though, Web 2.0 is beginning to fade away. “Web 2.0 style is all about glossy and shiny look, another option would be something rather crude, radical and provoking. Such as the grunge style — dirty look with irregular, nasty, sometimes even ugly and crooked visual elements” – Smashing Magazine. I couldn’t put it any better way. Grunge is almost the total opposite of Web 2.0. It will be interesting to see, as Web 2.0 fades, whether Grunge will be just another fad, that designers start doing because it’s the “in” thing to do.

For all those people that are interested in learning some Grunge design techniques, here is a list of Grunge resources, text effects, image effects, textures, brushes, and fonts.

Grunge Text Effects

These are a few of the best grunge text effects that I have seen.

1. Create A Deep Grunge Text Effect

Grunge Text Effect

2. Awesome Grunge Text Effect

Grunge Text Effect

3. Text on Rust – Grunge Text

Grunge Text Effect

4. Blend Into Texture

Grunge Text Effect

5. Graffiti Text Effect with Photoshop

Grunge Text Effect

6. Graffiti Text Effect with Photoshop

Grunge Text Effect

Grunge Image Effects

A great list of Grunge image effects.

1. How to Combine Pixel and Vector to Produce Striking Artwork

Grunge Image Effect

2. Displace filter with vector effects

Grunge Image Effect

3. Hard Surface Texture Painting

Grunge Image Effect

4. Create a Cool Music Logo on a Grunge Background

Grunge Image Effect

5. Urban Web Page Layout Perfect For Web Design Company

Grunge Image Effect

6. Making the ‘Clean Grunge’ Blog Design

Grunge Image Effect

Amazing Grunge Textures

Awesome list of 12 really good Grunge textures and backgrounds to use in your artistic masterpieces.

1. Painted Grunge Textures

Grunge Textures

2. Cracks ‘N’ Peels Grunge Texture

Grunge Textures

3. Colorful Grunge Texture

Grunge Textures

4. Photomorphix Grunge Textures

Grunge Textures

5. 10 Grunge, Rusty and Dirty Tileable Textures

Grunge Textures

6. Sanami Grunge Textures

Grunge Textures

7. Hardcore Vintage Grunge Textures

Grunge Textures

8. BAS Special Textures

Grunge Textures

9. 6 Pack of Grunge Textures

Grunge Textures

10. Mixed Pack of Textures

Grunge Textures

11. Experiments with Light

Grunge Textures

12. Grunge Cracks

Grunge Textures

Free Grunge Brushes

Just a few Grunge brush packs that I like.

1. Grunge Brushes

Grunge Brushes

2. Typographic Grunge Brushes

Grunge Brushes

3. Splatter Brushes

Grunge Brushes

4. Dripping Ink Brushes

Grunge Brushes

Free Grunge Fonts

If your going to do any of the text effect tutorials listed above, you’re going to need a font. Here are a few free Grunge fonts that I like.

1. Base 02

Grunge Fonts

2. Bleeding Cowboys

Grunge Fonts

3. A-Bite

Grunge Fonts

4. Loserboi Grunge

Grunge Fonts

5. Trashco

Grunge Fonts

6. Cocaine Nosejob

Grunge Fonts

I hope you enjoy this list, and found it useful. It’s funny because I started making this post with intentions to have just Grunge text effect tutorials, but then as the list grew, I accidently started adding non-text effect tutorials. So then I decided to make for Grunge effect tutorials. Then I saw a couple of textures I really liked, and wanted to include, and so I figured I might as well include other resources.

I also made this image using one of the text effect tutorials, and some of the textures that are listed above. Click it to view the full image.
Grunge Design

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