40 Beautiful Examples of Vintage and Retro in Web Design Retro and vintage web designs have become increasingly popular. Ironically, the more and more the web progresses, the more designers start to revert back to old retro styles. For your design inspiration, here are 40 beautifully-designed websites that revert back in time to retro and vintage styles. If you liked this collection, please consider also reading 20 Beautiful Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. mediaBOOM 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 40. Related content About the Author Matt Cronin is a freelance web and graphic designer as well as developer.
60+ Awesome Grunge Font That Every Designer Should Collect Advertisement Grunge and Dirty designs are probably the most popular design trends. Although grunge may means dirty to some people, but it is designer’s favorites. If i had missed out any fonts that you think are cool, please share through the comment section. 1. 2. 20th Century Woodcut 3. 28 Days Later 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 61. 62.
99 Useful Resources for Graphic Designers Articles September 27, 2007 I have used every one of these resources as a graphic designer and website developer and have hand picked all of these resources based on their usefulness and overall quality. I hope you find these resources as useful as I do! 1. www.gag.org The Graphic Artists Guild promotes and protects its members and is committed to improving conditions for all graphic designers and the whole industry. 2. www.aiga.org AIGA, the professional association for design is dedicated to protecting and advancing design and its importance to society. Education 3. www.guidetoonlineschools.com Guide To Online Schools is an education directory that specializes in online degrees, online schools, and distance learning. 4. www.getdegrees.com Getdegrees features the nations best online degrees from over 300 colleges. 5. www.graphic-design-schools.org Graphic Design Schools is your unofficial guide to getting into a graphic design school. Generally Useful 9. Networking & Freelance Work Fonts
100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website Backgrounds | Web Design Ledger 1026 shares 200+ Seamless Patterns Perfect for Website Backgrounds We’re always on the lookout for great freebies to share with our readers, and today we’ve got some seamless patterns. Seamless patterns are a great way to add a lot of detail to a design and fill up a big area, such as a background. Here are over 200 patterns that are perfect for creating… Read More 46 shares Best Places to Find Seamless Background Patterns Web Designers are always in need of background patterns.
Smashing Retro Icon Set - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Over the last few months, we have extensively covered the influence of retro and vintage style on modern Web design. We have looked at recent vintage Web designs, showcased posters and typography and presented vintage tutorials. So today, we are pleased to release the Smashing Retro Icon Set, a set of 10 beautiful, high-quality “vintage” icons, created by the talented Russian design agency SoftFacade especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Download the set for free! You can use the set for free and without any restrictions in both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. Download the set (.zip, ICO and PNG, 9.3 MB) Thank you, guys. It's done.
How to use @font-face A quick guide on how to use CSS @font-face in order to get custom fonts on any web page. Firstly, you’ll need to find a nice-looking, free font in order to use it on your web page. Graublau Sans Web by Georg Seifert is a perfect font for our example since it’s free and supports many languages. In order to support as many as possible browsers and devices, we first need to create and then use different formats of our font (.ttf/.otf, .eot, .woff, .svg etc.). After you convert the font in all formats, create a directory named “fonts” and copy all the fonts formats inside it. @font-face loads all necessary formats and we set the font-family the same way we would do normally. It’s best not to use the original font name (e.g. Next, we insert our simple markup: <h1>This is a heading with some custom font. That’s about it!
185+ Web Design Tutorials using Photoshop, CSS, HTML etc. Did you know that going through cool effects made in Photoshop and Photoshop Web Design Tutorials is one of the best and fastest ways to learn web design? Designing web sites is a highly creative process and it is not easy at all to get started if you do not have the right ideas, inspiration, skills and tools available. One thing is to get the idea or falling in love with a design used on some web site you run into. Turning the idea into a concrete design, e.g. a nicely layered and structured PSD ready to be sliced can be quite a challenge unless you have years of experience. One of the best ways to get started is to learn from others having enough experience and passion to share their techniques and ways of working in detailed tutorials. Great thanks to all the Photoshop Web Design Tutorial creators – keep up the great work! I recommend anyone planning to create a web design to long for inspiration on responsive web site layouts. Photoshop Web Design Tutorials Index Business PSD Layout
Five simple steps to better typography : Journal : Mark Boulton – April 13th, 2005 – Typography, I find, is still a bit of mystery to a lot of designers. The kind of typography I’m talking about is not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography. Call me a little bit purist but this bothers me. So, in an attempt to spread the word here’s the first of five simple steps to better typography. Measure the Measure. The Measure is the name given to the width of a body of type. One point = 1/72 of an inchOne pica = 12 pointsOne em = The distance horizontally equal to the type size, in points, you are using. But, with the advent of DTP packages and the website design the following are also now used: MillimetresPixels There is an optimum width for a Measure and that is defined by the amount of characters are in the line. CSS and fluid? What is interesting here is fluid designs on the web. The Measure and leading. Reversing out? Tracking Your responsibility The series Further reading
20 Beautiful Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets Vintage designs has gotten very popular over the past years, and it seems the trend keeps on going. In this round-up, you’ll find 20 vintage Photoshop brushes you can download for free. There are over 300 individual vintage brushes here, so you will have a broad choice of brushes to apply onto your designs. Each brush set was first tested, and the images you see below are previews of what to expect from each brush pack. 1. 2. 1920s ladies by 500ml brushes (7 brushes) 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1940 Cosmopolitan brushes (48 brushes) 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Related content About the Author 25 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Every now and then we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Pompadour Numeral Set, Lato, Crimson Text, Espinosa Nova, Musa Ornata, Spatha Sans, ColorLines, Roke1984, Neuton, Avro, Baurete and other fonts. New High-Quality Free Fonts Pompadour Numeral Set1 (.eps, released under Creative Commons) A beautiful numeral font released by Andy Mangold under a Creative Commons license. Lato2 (open-source sans serif) Lato is a san-serif typeface family. Crimson Text3 “Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful old-style typefaces. Color Lines5 This decorative font can be used for a variety of products, such as posters, packaging and label design. Further Resources Last Click
200+ Very Useful Free Photoshop Actions, Enhancement, Colouring, Effects, Filters etc In this article tripwire magazine presents a very large collection of Photoshop actions (some in large bundles). A Photoshop action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files. Actions can make nearly any change to an image and examples could be changing the image size, adding new layers, appling filters, saving files in a specific format etc. With the click of a button an action can help us achieve time consuming effects in no time you just need to have access to the right actions. Read on and you will hopefully find what you need. Advertisement Photo Coloring Retro-Vintage Actions sa-cool Action 1.05 Lomo Cross Processing Actions Clyck 003 Nature Actions 2.09 Set 41 (4 actions) Photoshop Actions Pack 5 (10 actions) InFection Vintage Effect (6 actions) Color Enhancing Actions Action Pack 1 Wedding Enhancers sa-cool actions 2.06 (7 actions) Vintage Pencil Draw Photoshop Action Set 26 (6 actions) Cross-Processing Action Set 43 (12 actions) 300 Action Red Action IR Effect Look