This Friday we’re featuring an interesting typographic trend: designs with a union, vintage feel, featuring lots of blacks and grays, textures, thick borders, uppercase, and letter spacing.

We’ve featured bento-style layouts before, and this week’s Friday Focus zones in on navigation that carries that same property. Check ‘em out!

The last Friday Focus of the year goes back in time before we move into the future. Happy New Year to everyone!

Last week we celebrated 11/11/11; this Friday Focus we’re looking at inspiring moustache-themed designs in celebration of Movember or men’s health awareness month.

Happy October and Friday Focus! This week we’re looking at designs that incorporate illustrations you see in old books, which give a quirky yet nostalgic effect.

They’re a bit more abstract than sunbursts and are often used to break the horizontal and vertical lines that run throughout the design. Enjoy some subtle light streaks this week on Friday Focus.

This week on Friday Focus: it’s backgrounds with repeating patterns, a well-loved technique that doesn’t go out of style.

I’m seeing a lot of sites whose color palette consists almost exclusively of light grayish, brownish hues. Sounds boring? No such thing for a smart designer.

Another dose of great sites with great illustrations that carry the design. Happy Friday the 13th Focus!

I’m doing something different this week on Friday Focus. I found one site with ten different styles on the same content (plus one homepage). Each one tries to match the visitor’s mood for the day. It’s also a good way to showcase one’s design repertoire. The designer also employs many interesting techniques into each style, so be sure to check all of them out!

Say the word “vintage” and different images come to mind. This week’s Friday Focus show how the old-era look can differ from one website to another. Which decades are these designs inspired by?