For the last day of Christmas, I’m giving away a pack of different vintage labels from my collection. I hand picked each of these, so there’s no filler junk in it- it’s all gorgeous! :)
Just answer the question and you’ll be entered to win the pack!
How do you use vintage graphics? (Do you draw inspiration from them? Use them in your artwork? Pull flourishes or type from them?)
I love using your vintage stock to pull the textures and flourishes for my designs. I use your website for inspiration in my design where I can. I love the vintage typography styles and color schemes in labels and packages
All of the above…
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I use vintage graphics (some of the best are found right here on vintageohmy.com!) for inspiration and period stylistic reference. Typefaces, graphics, flourishes; all working together to produce a beautiful timeless design. I also love to find and read about how these designs were produced at that time. Amazing work with limited resources!
Good luck everyone!
All of the above, but most often for inspiration and color references.
I like to use vintage graphics in my journal pages. I also use the types and styles for inspiration in creating art. Thanks for the chance to win!
I use them as inspiration in painting, calendars I have made, and on envelopes to people if I feel they need a little pick me up from the boring junk mail and bills that usually are in the box!
Happy New Year to you~
I love the colors in vintage packaging and also enjoy the photos and prints you post, I use vintage graphics in cine colle prints and as inspiration for monotypes, anne
I love using vintage labels when I’m making props for our community theater. It’s such a simple way to subtly impact the scenery with a very specific time frame. Audiences pick up on the period without even realizing why.
I like to use the elements as narrative detail. They contribute towards giving a larger artwork a place and setting. As they say “a picture is worth a thousand words”
An example here: http://drbl.in/cFaE
I love to use vintage ideas to incorperate into modern design. Its so much fun reinventing updated and current design with type and designs from the past! Brings back nostalgia and gives it that beautiful vintage style.
I am particularly fond of the ornate…onraments, and ornate typography. I also love the desaturated colors of some of them, or even the nature of aging over time.
Ephemera in general is just awesome, and it’s even more awesome you’re doing this give away! Thanks!
Vintage graphic is my memo for typo, illustration and press techinique. It is a real treasure for the five senses: eyes appeal, the smell of time, the sound of paper and the taste of dust.
I love vintage labels and will use them for a website i’m working on.
It might sound lame, but I sometimes just like to stare at them. Simple.
This looks like a great collection. So much can be learned from the past master’s of the craft. Vintage graphic design is a fantastic reminder of how much we modern day designers still have to learn and is a great source of inspiration.
So lovely. Nothing better than proper design.
I usually find myself drawing inspiration from vintage graphics, especially the ornate and hand drawn styles.
Im a sign painter. I love the reference your blog provides! Its purely excellent.
Thank You!
I will usually be inspired by them, or take certain elements from them and add them to a more modern design, usually to create a contrast.
I use them as inspiration; mostly in color, color combinations, composition, and type mixing. Also just as a feel, and an inspiration to make something that’s as cool and beautiful as these things! :)
Cool giveaway, thanks for doing it! I’ll definitely be back…
I have always been inspired by the typography and color pallets of vintage ads. So much so that the influence is constantly sneaking into my modern work. :] Thanks for the chance to win!
The graphics you upload are incredibly diverse but all have something in common… they are inpsirational. I love the typography and colours and the incredible amount of thought that went into creating the designs. By seeing these glimpses of past ideas I hope to create something with just a litle of that flavour.
I love to absorb(looking, touching them, smelling them?) every detail of them and use it as inspiration for design. And I’m doing my thesis on Victorian graphic design, so it will help me if I win!
I use them as references for making graphic props for period films and TV shows
Thank you for posting quality images! I love your site!
I scan/trace/copy florishes, typography, and study them as inspiration for brand identity, wine labels and website designs, or just let myself be absorbed in the wonderful history and line work.
I use labels both as inspiration and in artwork. I especially love interpretating the flourishes and such into my art.
I love drooling over vintage labels for all the delightful typography finds – they also provide bucket load of inspiration for my design work.
This is amazing! I’ve been admiring the beauty of typography and color for some time now. I collect whatever I can from estate sales and study them so that they may organically inspire my work as a graphic designer. I never directly copy a color palette but I have used them to influence my work because of their unique combinations. Absolutely stunning!
This looks like a great collection and would be a great addition to our own. We use ephemera for inspiration and then re-interpret elements in our own designs. Sometimes it’s a colour scheme, sometimes typography or illustrative style or even printing techniques that we pick up on.
Using design from the past as a reference point is relevant to almost everything we do – even if that isn’t always obvious in the finished result.
I use vintage graphics for inspiration for illustrations and designs, they also just look great to put up on the wall.
Who wouldn’t want to win such an awesome prize? Thank you!
When I use vintage graphics, it’s to compliment and honor a design with time tested sophistication. Modern graphics are fine but when you want to invoke some sentiment, go vintage!
I use them for inspiration in both color and typestyles, being that I am an old school signpainter and designer. I try to keep that period look and keep authentic as possible.
Born 100 years to late.
wow!!!
Touch, feel, smell, Love.
great collection, great taste and a great inspiration source.
keep on the good work ;)
respect,
RetroMan