Stripes
1st edition — by Patrick McNeil — Mar. 14, 2006
The Design Element
This element is such a trivial part of a design it almost feels silly to
do a whole article on it. But, this is something you see all over the place
so it can't be ignored. I
also don't want to trivialize any of the designs below, all of which are
outstanding. Categorizing these sites based on one small element of their
design might seem a bit brutal, but I think they serve to show that the element
can be used to enhance a site and it can certainly be bound to the site in
a thoughtful way.
Since stripes are used as such a subtle aspect of a design looking
through samples is probably the best way to get inspired in how they might
work in your design. So instead of analyzing the element, here are several
tutorials on how to create your own stripes. These are in fact the first
real tutorials presented on Design Melt Down, I hope you enjoy this new direction:
Sample Usage
Design Melt Down Tutorials
Basic vertical and horizontal stripes
More interesting random stripes
Diagonal stripes
