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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

Vintage signage fonts mimic painted shop sign lettering with distressed, imperfect shapes, offering an authentic retro touch. But in 2020, they doubled down on vintage styling with a new “Monster” throwback design. Items like cola, rootbeer, and ginger ale carry stylised labelling reminiscent of old-fashioned soda shops.

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

Others, like Fiona Banner, Tauba Auerbach, Joi T. Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Every Word Unmade (Neon Alphabet), 2007. Fiona Banner replied in kind to a question about following the rules of typography. “I Both Boyce and Banner have drawn their own typefaces as part of their work. It becomes a subject.” .

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