45 Things That Make A Vintage Design Look “Vintage”


 

 

Vintage design

Looking at my blog stats last night I found out that there are a lot of searches for the keyword “Vintage design” here. Looks like vintage is in, but what makes a vintage style website design – vintage? I went searching, looking at various collection lists of vintage websites like this one and this one. Here is a list of 45 things that make a design look vintage, that I could find.

  1. Faded out colors
  2. Girl’s hair -updos, long hair
  3. Girls wearing covered up tops
  4. Girls wearing high waisted tapered jeans
  5. Pastel colors
  6. Neon colors
  7. Worn paper textures
  8. Worn photographs
  9. Worn edges
  10. Rips and tears on corners and edges
  11. Faded out buttons
  12. Bent corners
  13. Vertical stripes
  14. Wallpaper style backgrounds
  15. Pictures of vintage items
  16. Vintage posters
  17. Pasted clipart and cutouts
  18. Propeller planes
  19. Vintage stamps
  20. Vintage fonts (link)
  21. Handwritten text
  22. Starbursts
  23. Black and white photos with white border
  24. Vintage comics
  25. Vintage packaging
  26. Halftone patterns and designs
  27. 1940′s & 1950′s cars
  28. War and Millitary images
  29. Vintage road signs
  30. Travel trailers
  31. Tube TVs
  32. Old radios
  33. Old computers
  34. Elvis
  35. Beetles
  36. VW Beetle
  37. VW Minivan
  38. Hand drawn elements
  39. Grunge style designs
  40. Maps
  41. Circles
  42. White doves
  43. Peace signs
  44. Colorful vines illustrations
  45. Hippy style elements

Do you have anything to add to these? Please help us make this list bigger and better.

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One Response to “45 Things That Make A Vintage Design Look “Vintage””

  1. valiik  on October 25th, 2008

    While walking toward the register last night at a Holywood Video I saw they had a stand with candy bars, which were Hersheys chocolattes. The wrappers were designed to look vintage, like they had them in 1950s and 60s. I looked at them trying to figure out what it was that gave them this look and here are two more elements that we can add to the list above.

    Short hair like this: http://www.candysnob.com/archives/pictures/hershey1-thumb-150×150.jpg

    And the second is pink chubby cheeks. :)


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