Vintage and Retro Website Design. The words and might at first glance be intimidating to designers whose idea of a gorgeous website is modern and streamlined, not old or dusty. But don’t let the nod to the past fool you. Vintage and retro design elements are not only bright and eye-catching, but they also have a distinctly fresh edge to them with their bold font choices, punchy colors, and graphics that run the gamut from fun to flirtatious, enticing to seductive, and from mainstream advertising to pop art. What exactly constitutes ? The websites showcased below show many different approaches to the theme, but certain elements often repeat themselves. Vintage Web Design. Recently, I saw a very nice collection of vintage ads posted by Abduzeedo (via Digg).
Speaking of vintage design, I also have a nice collection of vintage websites that I dug up from my old bookmarks and Best Web Gallery submissions. I'm not a big fan of vintage design, but if you want to see more vintage inspiration, here are 23+ sites. Warning: some of the sites that you are about to view might be very old (click at your own risk) Travel & tour sites like vintage style? I'm not sure if it is a trend or what, but vintage design seems to be very popular on travel and tour sites. Visit Cascadia This is one of my favorite sites.
Cottonseed Oil Tour Another eye-catchy site. Tennessee Vacation The details spent on this site is extensive. Sexy models One common subject, they like to use sexy models. Mouse to Minx This is one of my favorite ecommerce sites. Lana Landis (flash) Ok, this is a very old site. Target Scope (Flash) Kretivia.com Prahba.com (Flash) Showcase of Retro Web Designs.
Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now In this post we have put together some beautiful retro web designs for your inspiration.
If you like these retro designs you might also want to check out some of our previous posts below. Enjoy! 50 Retro and Vintage Web Designs to Inspire You. Last week, Henry posted an article with 30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design and I simply loved the first font of the list, the matchbook typefaces.
By the time I saw it I could think of several good ways to use it in web design, print design on even other ways. Tendance du webdesign : modern retro. C’est une tendance bien en place qui envahi le monde du design depuis quelques mois.
Le style « Vintage, retro » est présent partout. Petit tour d’horizon, de cette tendance qui nous offre de superbes sites retro. Vous n’avez pas pu passer à côté des sites vintages, découvrons ensemble ce qui caractérise ce style en examinant les différents élément graphiques de plusieurs sites d’exemple : 1. Textures : Les textures omniprésentes sont les fondations du design retro. Ici sur le site Hey Indy, les textures et la superposition d’éléments donne du corps au design. Sur le site Amazee Labs, la texture de fond est légère, et paradoxalement donne tout un style au site : Made My Day utilise le même principe pour mettre en valeur les éléments graphiques constitutifs du site. Sur ce site, l’utilisation de plusieurs texture permet de mettre en lumière certains éléments et donner un côté réel, presque tactile au logo (on a presque envie de le toucher du doigt…) Retro and Vintage In Modern Web Design - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Retro and vintage are becoming a new trend.
Once rarely used in this robust, dynamic medium, early, retro and vintage elements are now becoming more and more popular in a variety of design contexts. Online shops, corporate designs, portfolios and blogs incorporate both styles on a small and large scale. When applying “old-style” elements to their works, designers produce creative and appealing designs that make their websites stand out and look really different. As a matter of fact, if executed carefully, such designs almost never look boring, although one might intuitively think that the opposite would be the case. Retro and vintage designs exhibit graphic solutions that are strongly influenced by the time period that they are supposed to represent.
Such elements create a nostalgic atmosphere, awaken feelings and memories and attempt to communicate information effectively using emotions. The Elements of Retro Web Design. The vintage and retro style is becoming more and more popular in today’s digital artwork.
The use of retro and vintage themes in design is probably one of the most pervasive trends since the industry went almost completely digital. In today’s post, we’ll look at examples of work sourced from the wonderful Dribbble, which helps us focus on snippets of a piece, rather than the entire design or illustration. From here, it’s possible to identify what techniques have been used and to describe how they impact the overall design. You will become familiar with these design trends and be able to replicate them.
To help you, short tutorials are scattered throughout the article. 1. Simple shapes are commonly used in vintage design. P This lovely illustration makes use of elliptical shapes to produce a sun and is finished off nicely with a typographic effect. Circlebox Creative’s branding is based on a circle and inspired by vintage ink stamps and badges. Mini-Tutorials.