Beautiful Vintage Design: Showcase and Resources
Published August 9th, 2010 in GalleriesThe vintage style is very popular in web design right now and has been mastered by many designers. Vintage-style designs typically include textures, colors and some items that give it that vintage feel. In this post we’ll showcase some excellent examples for your inspiration, and we’ll also feature some resources, like textures and Photoshop brushes, to help in your own vintage-style design.
Showcase of Vintage Inspired Design:
If you’re looking for inspiration for some of the best vintage-styled web designs, here is our collection of more than 25 of them. You’ll see that the vintage approach to design is used in a wide variety of industries and for all different types of websites.
The Ernest Hemingway Collection
Vintage Photoshop Brushes:
The use of Photoshop brushes is one of the easiest ways to give your work a vintage touch. There are a number of quality, free brush sets available with a vintage theme. Here you’ll find a collection of over 200 vintage brushes.
Old Signs (10 brushes)
Postage Label Brushes (15 brushes)
Assorted Maps (14 brushes)
1940 Cosmopolitan Brushes (48 brushes)
Old Postage Stamp Brushes (20 brushes)
Old Post Cards (9 brushes)
Vintage Fruit Brushes (11 brushes)
Vintage Hands (14 brushes)
Old Essentials Brushes (29 brushes)
Vintage Harley Davidsons (11 brushes)
Stamp Brushes (15 brushes)
Old Brushes 2 (10 brushes)
Vintage Textures:
The right textures are essential for creating an effective vintage-styled design. Here you’ll find a collection of some of the best free vintage textures available.
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24 Responses
Awesome post! Thank you for the resources! I do a lot of vintage/retro style designs (including my own website) so this post is going to come in handy! Thanks Vandelay!
I love this style. Haven’t used it for a while, but this has inspired me to start thinking about it again.
The Ernest Hemingway Collection is a great looking vintage site, truly fits with the personality of Hemingway.
Nice collection. Some oldies but some really good ones as well. Curious to know if the vintage trend is still hot or slowly dying away…?
some of these are really cool. thanks.
Ramsey,
Great, I’m glad it can provide some inspiration.
Bret,
I agree, that is one of my favorite sites shown here.
Awesome post and my favorite is Heartbreaker Fashion
Awesome, definitely going to use this!
Nice designs.
Hi. Thanks a lot for posting all the web designs and textures. I really liked the textures, especially the one with the beautiful vintage Europe map design. Thanks. Good Luck
AWESOME post! I love vintage sites. Of the sites, nineteen47 is definitely my favorite. Reminds me of childhood. Bookmarked for all the brushes and textures. Especially the map texture.
wow .I indulge in this..
I like the desighs..They have some some history and stories.
I believe that this is worth to collect
Hi, thank you for the great inspiration and the precious resources. We also did a vintage design for one of our last project: http://www.festeggiano.it take a look if you like!
Great post! Don’t forget about this one …
http://www.fisticuffdesign.com/
Five Cent Stand (fivecentstand.com) is an automatic failure in my book because it intrusively resized my window.
Love them!
I am not a designer but a developer but they are certainly inspiring!
AWESOME post! I adulation best sites. Of the sites, nineteen47 is absolutely my favorite. Reminds me of childhood. Bookmarked for all the brushes and textures. Especially the map texture.
I like them alot. They are usually brightly colored or in black and white only. They are simple and easy to follow what you want. I think today, people can get, too creative and take away from what they want to sell. I like the way you all give both sides of the page for people to make up their own minds. Keep up the good work.
AWESOME post! I love vintage sites. Of the sites, nineteen47 is definitely my favorite. Reminds me of childhood. Bookmarked for all the brushes and textures. Especially the map texture.http://kratosellas.blogspot.com
team fannypack catches my whole attention. the rest were good, but I’m always a fan of old newspapers! I go crazy with that!
great post, gorgeous designs! thank you!
gotta love a bit of old school!!
Awesome showcase. Textures are really great. Thanks for share.
Great list!, We would like to show our own vintage design for more inspiration!