Azulejos Backgrounds | Comments (4)
Posted in Design on 2nd June 2005, 11:22 pm by Stuart
Whilst we were on holiday in Portugal I took a few pictures of Azulejos, or hand-painted tiles. These are sometimes used to decorate the fronts of houses, and the look often hints at the Moorish past of Portugal.
The beauty of these designs is that they all make perfect repeating patterns, just the ticket for CSS background images.
All of the images are 200px square and in PSD format, feel free to make use of them in any way you see fit, a link or a tip of the hat would be nice if you use them in a live project.
Very nice indeed. Thanks for sharing.
Azulejos make beautiful background !
Very nice idea and thanks for sharing.
@James and Scheiro: You’re very welcome, do let me know if you use them in a project of any kind, I’d love to see them in action!
hi there,
I lived in Lisbon for 3 years. I was willing to do the very same thing for a long time, I even bought one of these ‘rolling’ hand scanners (excuse my english) and roll it over all of those walls. But then I went to Marocco for a long time, and this idea was parked aside… or, better, reinvented. I shall scan every tile in north africa.
Later on I was working back in my service-sector, time-is-gold big city life. When I’m back from my travels I feel like I myself am CSS-designed. I was asked to design and build up a site for a funny project, and I thought “let’s try one of those tiles I photographed / scanned”.
THEY DIDNT WORK, and I don’t mean technically. They were just too real. I’ll check these of yours and tell you later on.