I’m designing my new portfolio, and lately I’ve been checking many sites to get somekind of reference for inspiration. One of the main style that I’ve check as a cool trend is the Grain Texture, that can be done really easily in Fireworks. So I’ve made a list of sites that use this simple, yet awesome texture!

Also, do you guys know anymore sites that “wear” this texture? If you do, tell us! Leave a comment! I hope you enjoy these! Cheers!

Radium

“Radium is an internet marketing agency specializing in SEO, SEM and social media marketing. We provide a high level of interactive consulting services that deliver measurable results. With a holistic approach to online marketing, we ensure technical alignment with strategic objectives and create winning online campaigns that succeed in an ever-changing environment. We have offices in Austin TX and Boston MA.”

Mark Jardine

“I’m the designer for Tapbots, a tiny iPhone & Mac software company. When I’m not pushing pixels, I like to take pictures, draw, and play with cars.”

MetaLab

“We are an interface design agency, we have been in business since 2006, we work from two different countries, we strive for pixel-pixel perfection, we believe simple is beautiful.”

atebits

“atebits – suspiciously simple software”

Bohemian Coding

“Although I use the plural everywhere when I talk about Bohemian Coding, there’s only one person in this company. Bohemian Coding was founded early 2008 in the Netherlands and is being run by Pieter Omvlee. We develop a number of great (at least in our opinion) shareware applications for Mac OS X and have many things planned for the future.”

Utterly Ingenious Digital

“UiDIGITAL continue to provide full digital services that are invaluable to our business. Having engaged UiDIGITAL for a Strategic review of our web activities, we continued to a successful re-launch of our site, with an immediate upturn in performance. Not only that, but UiDIGITAL deployed a simple system that lets us update our own site at last!”

Note & Point

“A gallery devoted to making your Keynote and Powerpoint presentations look that much better.”

Shadowbox.js

“Shadowbox is an online media viewer application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.”

Robert Alan

“I’m truly first and foremost a Web designer. From the moment I created my first table-based site in 2000, I was hooked. Since then, I’ve bootstrapped my way to standards-based design with XHTML and CSS. There is nothing I love more than the feeling of working an original, hand-crafted Photoshop comp into fresh, validated code.”

Jason Stockman

“The design process involves heavy research and analysis of competing sites for your niche to uncover the best ways to improve the user experience.”

Make Film Work

“I specialize in shooting. It’s what I love. Give me a camera and I’ll get to work. I’m also an experienced Final Cut Pro editor, having logged hundreds of hours over dozens of projects. I’ve worked on everything from sixty-second business spotlights all the way to feature films. If you’ve got it, I can cut it.”

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