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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

Designers often incorporate these tones with wood grain textures. Vintage signage fonts mimic painted shop sign lettering with distressed, imperfect shapes, offering an authentic retro touch. Items like cola, rootbeer, and ginger ale carry stylised labelling reminiscent of old-fashioned soda shops. Rustic charm abounds.

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The best book cover designs of 2020

Creative Review

The bookshop.org platform launched in early November with 150 indie shops signed up and was welcomed by many readers determined not to give Jeff Bezos any more of their money; while the much-loved Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) Awards , unable to fulfil its regular slot in the book design calendar, moved its shortlists and results online.

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15 Illustration Portfolio Websites That Are Brimming with Talent

High on Design by Wix

This post was last updated on February 4th, 2021. Based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, his unique use of color, texture and shape is carried across the different mediums in which he works, such as digital illustration, murals and printmaking. Notice how Levi makes sure to take quality photographs of his art in different contexts.