How To Create a Retro Badge/Emblem Style Logo. The retro style badge/emblem of logos is a hot trend at the moment, and it’s no surprise why – They’re super cool!
We’ve already looked at a showcase of retro and vintage style logos based on circular motifs, now let’s build our own. We’ll put the basic structure together in Illustrator, then give it that aged vintage appearance with some finishing touches in Photoshop. The logo we’ll be creating is for the totally fictional Powerhouse Gym (although I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a gym somewhere with this name!). It combines many of the typical traits of this retro/vintage theme with alternating rings of black and white as well as fine details such as the stars and dots. The text and tagline follow the circumference of the circle while the icon sits bang in the centre and gives visual feedback as to what the logo is promoting. View the retro/vintage logo design Press CMD+F to paste in another duplicate, scale down and change the fill to white. Download the source file. How to Create a Vintage Circus Poster with the Photoshop Puppet Warp Tool. I’ve marveled at the Puppet Warp Tool in Photoshop for quite some time, but I’ve never actually used it.
Not that I didn’t understand how, it was just that I never had the need. So I decided to sit down and create a concept that would utilize this tool in a cool way, that would be fun and interesting. The result is this tutorial on creating a vintage style circus poster design. Inspiration I knew I wanted to create something with sort of a vintage circus feel to it, but with more of a strange curiosities or oddities theme. Getting Started With some inspiration found and a concept in mind I started looking for images.
Step 1. Vintage Photoshop Tutorials. Create A Cool Vintage Collage Design In Photoshop. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a retro-style design or vintage collage style.
We will use images from old ads, handwritten texts, patterns, and other things to give to our design a vintage look. There are excellent designers that we can consider masters on this subject. One of them, in particular, is a Brazilian named Eduardo Recife. His work is fantastic and it's totally worth checking his Web site out. Step 1 The first thing to do is plan your design so you will have to have an idea of what you want to show with your image. Step 2 With some drawings and ideas in mind, it's time to go to the computer. Step 3 Find some old paper. Step 4 Choose the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) and create a rounded rectangle with a dark yellow color like I did. Step 5 Create a Layer Mask (Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal All). Step 6 Next, I found a Creative Commons–licensed image of a flying saucer from Flickr.
Step 7 Next I'll search for vintage ads. Step 8 Step 9 Next we can add some vectors. Step 10 Step 11.