Hipster Designs

I have been researching design elements that can be implemented into my web-game-site. This is to identify the different styles that can be easily be recognize by the users. The elements that I will be looking at is typography and visual art trends.

Typography

The images above were taken from Google Images. From my observation, hipster designs are heavily influence by retro and minimalist designs. The typography in this style ranges from Slab Serifs, Sans Serifs and Script fonts. Usually, a hipster typography art combines all fonts in 1 piece as seen in the pictures above.

Visual Art

Based on these 3 illustrations, hipster designs are accompanied by a particular psychedelic colour palette, floral patterns and geometrical shapes (triangles). The art also depicts either hipster characters or animals, mostly owls, deers, wolves and tigers. I would say these art styles bring influences from Bohemian art and a bit of retro-age illustrations.

Hipsterism in Media

A lot of these hipster design trends can be seen in today's medium such as websites, branding and many more.

Hipster branding

Hipster web design 1

Hipster web design 2