Michael Alonzo

Recently I was tasked with creating a geometric pattern for the background of a website. I've never really tried to create such a pattern, so after a few clicks and some Google luck, I came acrossed this very handy tutorial by abduzeedo.

After a quick run through and some minor tweaks I came up with this...

The client loved it, but ultimatley the design committee decided it was too feminine. If you have any interest in accomplishing something similar give the tutorial a try or download my ai file.

I know, I know. So many of you out there love your tropical islands, pouncing kittens, and huge faces of loved ones. You carefully curate your desktop background to display just the right far off land or family function. I get it, I enjoy those things too. Just not on my desktop. I’m simple and love to keep things basic and more importantly, functional. I’m on my computer 8-14 hours a day and would like to keep as much retina function as possible, so I typically opt for an all black background.

Designing for the the web poses many different chanllenges, one big one being, screen resolution. Now I know there are a million different browser plug-ins to dynamically change the resolution of your browser but I figured an even easier solution was to create a desktop background that visually displays the most common resolutions.

I hope this is helpful. Download it now.