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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

By incorporating fitting examples like those below, brands can use typography to transport buyers through time: Art Deco fonts reminiscent of elegant early 20th-century lettering evoke images of flappers and early Hollywood. The illustrations feature Santa in scenes reminiscent of Art Deco/1950s Americana styling with merry colours.

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The best book cover designs of 2020

Creative Review

But with the intermittent openings of bookshops and libraries, the various ways in which art direction, design and typography can introduce readers to a particular book have been made to work even harder — as part of an online book browsing experience that, in lockdown, has become more the norm than ever. Art director: Jim Stoddart.

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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

Descending from street level, the first room is an assemblage of shops signs, early 2000s Macs, various bricks, and a vitrine full of supermarket product packaging. Each time I’m greeted with fresh coffee and pastries and each time I glimpse something on the walls, in the stacks, or on the tables that I missed the time before.

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Renaissance: The Renaissance era, renowned for its focus on humanism and revival of classical art, brought a new level of sophistication to logo design. Influences from Ancient Greek and Roman art were prominent, with symbols often featuring images of mythological figures or classical motifs.

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21 Photoshop Tutorials to Brush Up Your Photoshop Skills

HONGKIAT

In this all-encompassing guide, we’ve curated a collection of top-notch Photoshop tutorials designed to help you craft surreal visuals , enhance portrait photography , and transform your images into extraordinary works of art. These additional elements give your design a retro style, making it a unique piece of art.

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Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?

Design Week

.” Struggling to articulate how the loss of this hand-crafted sign actually felt, Oberoi launched the platform to record other instances of India graphic design that remained. “And what’s happening now is that people are starting to sit in the little boxes that people outside of India have created for us.”

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

Eye on Design

They also follow artists like Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Kay Rosen, Ed Ruscha, and Lawrence Weiner, and artists in the 1960s who made language a primary element in their art under labels like Fluxus, Pop art, Conceptual art, and text and image. Is that something that would only concern a designer?

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