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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. 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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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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30 Free Logo Mockup PSD Templates for Creatives

SpeckyBoy

Free Shop Sign Mockup (Photoshop PSD). Consider this logo mockup template to present a logo as a shop sign. The template comes with smart objects and is a great choice for restaurant, bar or shop logo presentation. Add some texture to your logo design presentation with this grunge wall mockup.

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Maybe we don’t have to (re)brand everything

UX Collective

Even pieces of printed paper need to have that right texture and colour (courtesy of mockup image sites) for an identity of a business to be “solidified.” Everyone could use a giggle now and then when they see a tacky shop sign seemingly made with Powerpoint. Nothing was overlooked.

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21 Photoshop Tutorials to Brush Up Your Photoshop Skills

HONGKIAT

The tutorial also includes steps for adding textures and making curves adjustments. You’ll learn how to use various tools and techniques, including shape properties, smart objects, textures, and layer styles. The tutorial also provides tips on color shading and texture, aiming to help you create a vintage-style coffee shop.

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15 Illustration Portfolio Websites That Are Brimming with Talent

High on Design by Wix

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. Encouraging website visitors to purchase her work, Johanna places a small icon of a shop sign, paired with a colloquial call-to-action “Buy Some Art”.