Posts Tagged Retro

How To Create a Retro Style Typographic Poster Design

Follow this step by step tutorial to create a retro style typographic poster design with distressed textures and a muted colour scheme. We’ll create a typographic layout based on the number ‘one’ using Illustrator’s easy manipulation tools, then switch over to Photoshop to lay out the poster design composition and grunge everything up with some textures to create that cool dated retro look.

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How To Create a Retro Style Superman Book Cover

Follow this step by step Illustrator and Photoshop tutorial to create a retro style book cover featuring a stylized vector illustration of Superman. We’ll create the Superman illustration with simple vector shapes before laying out the complete retro style book cover with textures in Photoshop.

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Logo Design Trend Showcase: Retro Emblems & Badges

I’ve noticed the retro/vintage style theme in logo design is becoming an increasingly popular trend. This showcase pulls together a range of great looking logo designs based on the emblem or badge theme. Most often using a circular format, these logos use a mix of texture or intricate vector patterns to produce a creative and overall super-cool design.

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How To Give Your Photos a Cool Retro Analog Effect

Back in the days of analog photography imperfections were part of the job. Colour washes, light leaks, vignettes and blurs were all common problems that appeared during the processing of your film, particularly from cheap cameras such as the Holga, or simply down to human error. While these problems don’t affect digital cameras, we can recreate the cool effects in Photoshop to give our shots that cool lo-fi retro effect.

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Showcase of Incredible Geometry Inspired Digital Art

The pure old geometric shape has been a basic tool for artists throughout history and is still used as a prominent feature by designers and artists today. These digital artists are combining shapes and lines to form detailed compositions, often mixed with elements from other artistic genres to form a huge range of individual and unique designs and styles. This showcase rounds up a huge collection of incredible geometry inspired art from the web’s most talented digital artists.

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