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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

It uses visuals, branding, typography, colour palettes , and other styling cues to tap into consumer memories and associations with previous decades. Incorporating nostalgic fonts and typography Chunky, whimsical fonts that mimic sign painting or old typewriter print evoke nostalgia. What is Retro Packaging Design?

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

Eye on Design

As Julia Born puts it much better in an interview with the Gradient : “ [Ebner] fascinates many graphic designers because she manages to capture and magically bring together typography, poetry, philosophy, politics, language, and aspects of the vernacular.” Fiona Banner replied in kind to a question about following the rules of typography. “I

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The Best Figma Fonts of 2024 

Noupe

Plus, it’s optimized for both screens and print, making it usable for any design project. Tilt is a font family that’s all about the visuals, drawing inspiration from city landscapes, especially the bold lettering seen on shop signs. This increases its functionality in creative fields.

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

The advancements in technology, particularly in printing, allowed for mass production and distribution of goods. Colour printing, in particular, became a game-changer, opening up new possibilities for logo design. Logos from this era incorporated floral patterns, curved typography, and intricate illustrations.

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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. They work with clients primarily in the Greek cultural sector and maintain the focus on print that Karlopoulos has sustained throughout his career. .

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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.