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Looks like good Retro Graphic Design by Mark Weaver. 1950s Art > The Retro Graphics Archive. Shane Harrison Illustration » The Oscars. Socialism Behind the Logo by ~RedTusker on deviantART. Max Kelly Design - Retro Graphic Design. Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Retro and vintage designs are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull.

That’s not true. Although compared to modern design, retro is mostly a completely different realm, it has a large variety of benefits modern graphic designers often tend to overlook. And that’s a pity. Because we, as designers, can learn a lot from it. Nostalgic designs arise feelings, awake memories and better manage to involve broad range of readers even although they don’t really realize it. Below you’ll find the celebration of retro and vintage design — ads, illustrations, book covers, pins and posters from 1920-1980s.

Please notice: if after reading this post you’ll experience some need for buying ice cream, chewing gum or eating sausages, it’s not our fault. Retro Cosmic Retro Cosmic1Designs by James White. Robot Rock! Yopta project3Evgeniy Kiselev’s design project. Andy Gilmore4Playful colors in the retro-look. Packaging and Advertisement Knitting and spool kit7 Remarkable! Geek upcycling: When stuff becomes things. Between Steampunk inventions, games emulating old-school pixel art and retrofitting electronics into antique shells, some artists, product designers and stalwart retro-heads have become obsessed with nostalgic art forms and archaic products. Merge this with upcycling, the art of transforming old junk into trendy new products, and you have a selection of craft projects that show off your favourite obsolete tech and broken gadgets as fashionable jewellery, stylish clocks and other conversation pieces.

The suitably named Flickr user "stuff made from stuff", has made an entire gallery from sticking clock hands onto all manner of circular gizmos. His chronometric designs include a hard drive (above), a CD drive, bike cogs and cranks, chopped up motherboards and record turntables. Check out our gallery for the full spread. Wired. Retro clipart, retro clip art, clip art, food clipart, sports cl. Vintage 2.0 – Glossy Retro Takes Over Web Design | Inspired Maga. An Inspired Mag reader said a few posts ago that the round corner buttons are dead. I think precisely the same mate, I know how you feel about the so-called web 2.0 buttons and shiny blingos! But what about this new futuretro style, that combines the web 2.0 (clean) look with a vintage touch? We’ve made a roundup of 25 websites that mix the retro with the shiny. What do you guys think about this style? Feed Stitch The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely Mister Aero The Blizzards Cottonseed Oil Slabovia Bestial Design Big Cartel The NY Moon Team Fortress 2 Belvoir On For Britain Aespec Studio Rockatee Frisk Web Tomatic Field Notes Adaptd Level 2D Get Satisfaction Singularity Concepts Black Moon Design Kid Acne We offer 642-973 design tutorials and 642-359 guide to help you start with web designing .

RetroWonders-Retro Jukeboxes, Radios, Record Players. Retro To Go. Retro Thing.