Visual Inspiration: 30 Beautiful Vintage Web Designs
A popular web design trend in recent years has been the use of vintage-inspired aesthetics — an antagonistic juxtaposition to our depiction of the Web as being the space for modernity. These site designs feature design elements like low-saturation color palettes, distressed and aged elements, textures, and items and people representative of the yesteryears like outmoded technologies (such as radios and TVs), pin-up girls, and World War I/II memorabilia.
Amelia Earhart Book
Targetscope
Level 2 Design
mediaBOOM
The Hipstery!
Visual Secrets
Transformology
Heartbreaker Fashion
Custom Design
reklama-audio.pl
Prahba
Farinella
Torpedo Juice
Festiki
The New York Moon
DeVotchKa
Team Fortress 2
Mom & Popcorn
CSS Tinderbox
Francesco Molezzi
Five Cent Stand
Tricycle Terror
Thigpen Designs
Tecsky Web Design
Style 4 you
this by them
Lataka
Edgewater
Sea Dream Studio
La Masa Mimatta
Author: Jacob Gube
26 Comments (Add yours)
Machin
Oct 01 2010
Perfect Friday perusing! Great list, Cheers.
Mali Studio
Oct 01 2010
Massive like! I’m sharing this list. :)
Adrian
Oct 01 2010
This list should be super useful on an up and coming project of mine. Thanks!
Eric Vasquez
Oct 01 2010
Contributor
Great collection indeed. I love this style and can’t help but wonder if this is what websites would have looked like if they had the internet back in the 1950′s-70′s.
christoph bischof
Oct 01 2010
i was looking for something like that. there is a design agency in berlin with a vintage style website, have a look: http://www.apfelzet.de/
Lauren
Oct 01 2010
Oh these are simply lovely! Very impressive designs indeed! I particularly like the Sea Dreams Studios design, but these are all wonderful. Thanks :D
Mat Payne
Oct 01 2010
Thank you for compiling these lists, they are great for ideas. I would love to see a list of website interior pages as many designs look great on the homepage but break down or change completely for interior content. Also, a list of large corporate sites or high information site would be super. :) Thanks again, great job!
Rnzo
Oct 01 2010
If you want some inspiration about RETRO style go to >> http://retrovizeur.blogspot.com/. AMAZING Retro Blogspot!
Antonio Ciccarone
Oct 01 2010
These designs are amazing! Bookmarking for future past inspiration.
richard carpenter
Oct 01 2010
Contributor
Love vintage designs…. some great examples here. Good post.
Christian
Oct 01 2010
Nice collection! Thx for sharing.
ciara
Oct 01 2010
Contributor
Love these, really nice collection, thanks for sharing
Marcelopwerk
Oct 01 2010
Love the sites!!! check http://www.sugar-mama.nl it’s also a retro site!!
paul
Oct 01 2010
this by them is my favorite
Yalanda
Oct 02 2010
Very very nice set
Sophie
Oct 03 2010
Nice selection! Thank you for sharing.
Nick Rivers
Oct 04 2010
check ; http://www.wandasocialist.com , social-constructivist !
Giacomo Colddesign
Oct 05 2010
Great collection! thanks for sharing!!
genadyj
Oct 12 2010
Same designs goes throught all blogs.. Nothing new here
shelly b
Oct 27 2010
This is beautiful, just kinda sad that there were no black images back then.
ken khero
Feb 16 2011
great stuff quite inspiration .find more for us.thanks great work by the designers espexcially the Level 2 Design and Heartbreaker Fashion.
Creative Pile
Feb 19 2012
Wow! What a beautiful collection of vintage website designs. Thanks for the great article!
Lee Marshall
Feb 29 2012
Stumbleupon this, it fascinating to see this type of site design done properly. Not easy.
Umberto
Mar 07 2012
Very beautiful collection of vintage website. Thank you for this.
Angela Brown
Mar 20 2012
Nice collection. Thanks for nice sharing.
Surajit Saha
Mar 20 2012
what a beautiful collection!