“It’s hip to be hip!”
What’s Being Hip?
What do you know about hipsters? Most often they are described as beard guys with mustaches, trendy glasses and ironical smile. But scratch the surface, and you’ll find out a lot of interesting facts about this subculture that has recently become so popular. Hipsters value independent thinking, music and labels, progressive politics, appreciate art and creativity. Vintage and irony are two milestones of this culture of aspiring artists. Contemporary hipsters like retro (listening, watching) and always find things to mock about. It’s a part of their philosophy not to be influenced by mainstream which ideas are promoted via advertising and media. Any standards are omitted by hipsters, and that’s why most of them are young people with androgynous appearance. Both men and women look thin, wear the same-like clothes and accessories that underline this similarity. Such phenomena as hipster subculture usually delve into all spheres of life, and web is not an exception.
Hipster Website Aesthetics
What’s hipster web design? It’s design for young, single-minded people that keep pace of time. Such extremely modern designs feature the latest trends. You can notice them for their simplicity, faded colors, retro graphics (textures, patterns, typefaces), and so popular hipster vectors. Among the latter are arrows, bicycles, mustaches, glasses, cool pointers etc.
Form meeting function is the key rule for hipster designs. Being visually attractive without compromising on usability is a good practice for true hipster websites. Easy to use and easy on the eye – this is how a well-done site of this kind should look like.
Hip Tricks for a Site
Here is a small cheat sheet for all of you who strive for creating authentic hipster design.
– Make it vintage. Dressing the layout of your site into retro (with all that textures and graphics), you get true hipster aesthetics.
– Use Instagram looks. Being hip means looking hip and Instagram-like photos perfectly reflect this philosophy. Actually, Instagram, as a way of highlighting the daily lifestyle, is one of the most favorite social media network among hipsters. All that dreamy photos created with Instagram filters of with Photoshop actions turn your site into a hipster one.
– There are markers peculiar to hipster social group: beards, glasses, arrows, bicycles, etc. When implemented in design, they transform it into hipster. You know that tiny elements are essential for creating particular design style, and usage of the mentioned above ones are the right way to create modern, rustic and obvious hipster layout.
Hipster Freebies
Let’s focus on the latter point of this list. The versatility of the hipster signifiers is great and implementing them into your works you get the desired result – hipster look. I offer you a compilation of hipster web design freebies (psd) for turning your site, brand identity, or any other project into cool one. What will you find here? Fonts, textures, mockups, vectors, logo, badges – everything that can be a designation of the true hipster work. Being mixed with proper elements (dreamy photos, textured background, grungy elements), they can make your design distinguishable from others and show your good taste.
Don’t be afraid of being hip or just play with some elements of this style. Being hip (having your own taste and mind, enjoying independent music and denying consumerism) is being modern. To show the world your original hip projects, choose hipster web design freebies from the list below. All of them are completely free.
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Freehand UI Kit
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4 Vector Retro Badges
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5 Retro Badges
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’50s Badges
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Hipster Bike Set
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Brown Badges
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Canter Free Font
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Chunk Free Font
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Forest Packages
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Free Vector Hipster Stock
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Free “Hipster Chick” Female Character
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Hipster Guy
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Hipster Icon Set
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Hipster Party Flyer
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Hipster Vector Elements
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Logo Hipster
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Mustache Icon Set Freebie
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Rex Free Font
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Katarina Klementi is an author of this post. Visit her Google + account to find inspirational collective posts with freebies, design goodies and a lot of creative and useful stuff.
