Arcane Palette Creative Design » artistic graphic design

This texture pack is a hodge-podge of random objects and textures that have the common theme that they were all taken from an old house.  Screens, mesh, old fabric, vintage wallpapers and retro-tastic heating vents to add to your collection.  All images were taken at 2272×1704, large enough to do pretty much whatever you want.  If you like these, you should check out our first miscellaneous textures pack.

All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike license. Click the license badge below for more information about usage.

Arcane Palette textures by Arcane Palette Creative Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.arcanepalette.com.

To download this pack, click the link underneath the previews below.

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Okay, so this month’s wallpaper has a bit more of a story.  Or, at least, it’s meant to imply that it has more of a story.

I wanted to do something spacey/sci-fi because it’s something we haven’t really done.  I started thinking about what a captain’s journal might look like if it wasn’t explicitly limited to just handwritten text.  What if it was sort of like a cross between a journal and an iPad (or, as Steven Fry noted, the closest thing, thus far, to a real, live Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).  What I had in mind was something that was both futuristic and retro, and with that in mind, I designed Captain’s Log…

This is the first time, also, that we’ve included a wallpaper for an iPad/tablet (of course, it was never really an issue before since they previously didn’t exist).  Time will tell if this becomes a regular inclusion but, given the booklike nature of the design, we included two different iPad wallpapers and two different iPhone wallpapers (as well as calendar and non-calendar versions of each).  Captain’s Log is available in the following resolutions:

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900
1280×800

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960
1024×768

Mobile
320×480 (iPhone)
768×1024 (iPad)

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This retro sepia tone blog was such a fun project to work on! The three column layout includes a specially coded “About Me” column with a picture of the blogger and all the most important information about her work as well as a more standard sidebar column and a main content column. We were given the great photo used in the header and asked to design something with a vintage feel that would appeal to writers. So we took our leads from the picture and used warm browns and creams and added some fun textures and fonts to give the blog personality. The ornaments separating different posts and sections give the design a little extra retro elegance.

Our favorite part of this site is the way all the individual elements work together to bring a warm, friendly and intriguing visual mood to the site.

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