I’ve been noticing a new trend in graphic design that has been picking up a lot of steam recently. It’s been around for a little while, but now I’m seeing new designs that fall into this category every day. I don’t think I’ve seen such a popular theme for a while! The designs usually have several things in common; A central photo (usually of a person ) surrounded by tons of sparkles, glow effects and other colorful effect such as swirls and lines.
Below you will find some prime examples of this new sparkle backgrounds trend in graphic design. Its hard to pinpoint where things start nowadays due to the shear amount of designers and tutorial sites, but my guess is Fabio Sasso’s three tutorials ( one, two and three ), this Computer Arts tutorial and Chuck Anderson all might have something to do with this outburst of cool designs.
Notice this trend? Start this trend? Got work like this? Show and tell us in the comments!
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Interesting topic, however I’m not fond of this style at all. A handful of the images I’ve seen in this style actually look decent, and different. The rest just look like poor imitations. I think the trend was given exposure by PSDTuts & http://abduzeedo.com – And while l like both of these sites I’m a little sick of seeing these.
I do however like the recent trend of this style in web design, like the Abduzeedo site above.
Madness?
THIS
IS
SPARTA!
Cool works!
Anyway I would have loved to be informed that some of my pics were here…
:)
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Those look awesome.
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So beautiful!
Pretty!
It looks like the music video from the 70′s and mid 80′s filters but in a way better resolution.
Thanks for posting this it looks like fun.
[...] Sparkle Backgrounds Madness! from You the Designer. A nice collection of graphic design work with popular sparkling backgrounds. [...]
Sparkles and Blings and gradients are in style for graphic designing.
Yes they are def in style right now =)
I too have noticed and have talked to my friends, exactly the same thing.
At SocWall there are many wallpapers sporting in flashy flares and sparkles..
swirls of light and lines of cool colours are also being used widespread..
wicked
i love them there so wicked
they are sooooo cool you should make more of them
sexy mann
this is amazing, you all have serious talent and its just amazo
I think I even know who started it…. http://www.aeiko.net or http://www.wirestyle.deviantart.com , he’s been doing these kids of effects for a while now, well before the trend fired up.
P.S BTW its not a links to my site/profile so its not self-promotion.
how do they do does like that? can u make a pcture like this with photoshop??
this is kind of cool
hi eveybody
WOW !!
You wrent kiddin when u sed MADDNESS then
its great :)
These look a lot like the posters that Joseph Goebbels produced back in 1943 to promote the V-2. Same sort of sparkly backgrounds, very much like the last image, but with a rocket in place of the motorbikes.
THIS IS REALLY MADNESS! DAMN THESE ARTS ARE FANTASTIC.
these pics are vary cool..i like them alot…thank yew
can i use onde of your pictures on a website? Please let me know on my email address