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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

Designers often incorporate these tones with wood grain textures. Brights like turquoise, coral, and lime green recall the popular wild mod prints and plastic products going into the 80s. Mix Old With New Blend retro styling with modern shapes, photography techniques or textures so packaging doesn’t read as falsely vintage.

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Designing For Print Vs Digital: The Differences

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Print Has a Higher Visual Resolution Well-printed materials exceed standard digital displays' ppi ( pixels per inch ). Fine detail and textures can be reproduced crisply through printed pixels smaller than those on low to mid-range monitors. The texture of covers and paper stocks beckons readers to pick them up.

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The Vibrant World of Japanese Graphic Design

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They balanced clean, grid-based layouts from the International Typographic Style with handmade brush strokes, fabrics, origami textures, and calligraphy. Printing Technology Advances Print production technologies, enabling graphic design and art innovations, transformed Japan's history.

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A Guide to Vintage Design Styles

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For example, a designer can use 50s design elements such as fonts and mid-century illustration to give something a 50s art style or retro graphic design, and combine this with aged textures to give the impression of ageing. Look at a shiny modern digital print, and you’ll probably place it as having being made recently.

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3form’s Biophilic Graphic Patterns Celebrate the Duality of Perfection + Imperfection

Design Milk

Fascinated by the Aspen trees’ rich texture and history, they became the jumping-off point for this collection, spurring three new graphic patterns inspired by forest imagery at numerous scales and perspectives. Photography by Sydney Austin.

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Designers Are Conducting Their Own Science Experiments — With Interesting Results

Azure Magazine

Photo: Bascom Photography. Print + Digital. Combine print with the convenience of the digital edition powered by Zinio. Get Print + Digital. took after Mary Shelley in envisioning Storyteller, a plywood shelving unit that features two hands as doors. Just Like A Pill. Access to exclusive web content.