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RETRO VINTAGE GRAPHIC DESIGN TUTORIALS : How to Design Retro Vintage Layouts with Photoshop, Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, etc

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Adobe Photoshop Retro Vintage Design Tutorials

A Retro Colorization Tutorial - Variety is the spice of life, and with that in mind, I offer you yet another colorization tutorial. This one uses a different method than either of the previous tutorials (CMYK curves adjustment layers), one that I feel is slightly easier than either of the other two methods while still acheiving good results. This tutorial is for PS7, as I have no working knowledge of PSP (sorry). I also use PC, but it is nearly the same on a Mac.

A Retro Wallpaper/Poster Step By Step Photoshop Tutorial - How to design a vintage wallpaper / poster image.

Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves - In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design some amazing vector based Retro Rainbow Curves using Adobe Photoshop. These retro artifacts have become a popular trend in modern design!

BLAM! How to Use the Halftone Pattern Tutorial - The Halftone Pattern filter can make activate your images from the mundane to the exciting! Here’s how to recreate an old comic-book style with it…

B-movie Poster Art - Prepare to shock! Terrify! Amaze! Photoshop and Illustrator guru Mark Mayers demonstrates how to recreate the shlock B-movie posters of cinema’s golden age.

Cabaret Vintage Effects Tutorial - The new lesson we'll try to represent a styli illustration (a poster), dedicate to a certain topic, in this case to the musicals. We'll see also how to erase the effect of red eyes , decolorize only a part of the object and use different layers.

Car Vector Vintage Style Photoshop Tutorial : Car Vector Tutorial - After being away for so long, I've finally decided to make another tutorial for you guys. You may have seen some of my vectors I've made on my DeviantART. If you haven't, well, go check 'em out. Today I'm going to show you how to make a vector like my Car Vector piece.

Comic Book Photo Effect - In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to add a comic book effect to an ordinary photo using a few layers, the Cutout and Poster Edges filters and a few different layer blend modes.

Create a Vintage Looking Image with Photoshop - If you are not familiar with layer masks this Photoshop training session will increase your image editing skills within Photoshop. The tutorial will show you how to turn your digital image into a vintage looking image. All done in a non-destructive way. This was done in Photoshop CS2, although it may work in older versions.

Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper - In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a beautiful, vibrant, Retro-Pop abstract wallpaper. You’ll also learn how to add some wonderful texture to your designs and make some abstract shapes!

Create a Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design - Pop art is alive! As I'm a big fan of grunge style, I'll show you how to design a simple but nice vintage pop art piece with some wear and tear. This is a basic to intermediate tutorial, so you don't need to be a guru to work with this effect and get an awesome result!

Creating A Retro Grunge Poster - This tutorial is an add on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro.

Creating 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.

Create a Vintage Film Style Video Using Photoshop CS3 Extended - Photoshop CS3 Extended allows you to edit video and animations. Also, you can convert an existing video into a Smart Object and apply filters to it. This time we're going to give a video a vintage feel and mock it up inside an old TV screen.

Create a Vintage Polaroid Effect - I love anything graphic design that has that vintage grunge kind of look. This tutorial will show you how to create a stunning vintage polaroid effect. It’s fairly simple to make and can be used in many different types of projects.

Create a Vintage Film Style Video Using Photoshop CS3 Extended - Photoshop CS3 Extended allows you to edit video and animations. Also, you can convert an existing video into a Smart Object and apply filters to it. This time we're going to give a video a vintage feel and mock it up inside an old TV screen.

Craft a Vintage Fifties Letter - It seems everyone wants to learn how to make something look vintage or grungy. In this tutorial, I go over how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corner, and a a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes, and several intermediate techniques that are sure to propel you skills to the next level.

Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper - In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a beautiful, vibrant, Retro-Pop abstract wallpaper. You’ll also learn how to add some wonderful texture to your designs and make some abstract shapes!

Create a Retro Hollywood Signature - This creation looks very vintage / retro.

Creating a Vintage Image Style - So you are into that vintage-esque look. And you probably wonder, wow that is great! But how do I do that. There is also a Vintage Truck Tutorial that goes along with this tutorial.

Design a 3D Retro Strip : Photoshop Tutorial 20 - Today i was browsing around some templates and came upon quiet an interesting concept which gave me the idea for this tutorial. Basically its quiet a simple technique to use with a pen tool but it does create some really sweet results. Get ready to create a 3D Retro Strip in ten simple steps.

Design a 3D Retro Strip : Photoshop Tutorial 20 - Today i was browsing around some templates and came upon quiet an interesting concept which gave me the idea for this tutorial. Basically its quiet a simple technique to use with a pen tool but it does create some really sweet results. Get ready to create a 3D Retro Strip in ten simple steps.

Design a Retro Summer Poster Illustration - This tutorial will cover some really cool illustration techniques, exploring Photoshop’s vector capabilities as well as playing with textures and selection methods.

DIY vintage T-shirts - It’s easy to create authentic collegiate T-shirt designs using Illustrator, Photoshop and a good old-fashioned iron. In this tutorial, illustrator Derek Lea reveals how combining both applications can create stunning results.

Fantastic Retro Wallpapers Creation Tutorial - This new task I'll show you how to create some fantastic wallpapers on the desktop by imitating the vectorial style.

Flower Patterns Tutorial - In the ever evolving world of web design, the basic tiling floral pattern seems to be making a comeback in a BIG way! Simple to make, pleasing to the eye and, best of all, light on bandwidth, floral patterns have graced many great sites recently, and looked fantastic in the process. So, how are they created? Read on and be enlightened...

Gigposter Vintage Poster Design - So we’re going to make a gig poster! Subject matter: Deftones and The Fall of Troy in Cleveland, Ohio at the House of Blues on May 30th. Why are the Deftones not first, you ask? Because I like The Fall of Troy better… and this is an unofficial poster, so who cares?

Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect - How about a fun effect for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements. This tutorial will show you how to give a comic book look to your photos using a couple of filters and some additional decorations.

Halftone Screen Gradient Photoshop Tutorial - In this cartoon tutorial, I'm going to focus on the halftone screen gradient, rather than the entire aspect of halftone. When the halftone screen is applied to a gradient, it produces a pretty nice result, which can be used in cartoons (as backgrounds) or as patterns on just about anything. However, you can apply this halftone screen tutorial to just about any graphic or cartoon, so you're not limited to just gradients.

Hot Chick on a Muscle Car with Worn Vintage Effect - In this tutorial we'll fuse an image of a Muscle Car and an image of a Hot Chick into one cool retro postcard design. Learn some brush, texture, and layer techniques to create a classic image everyone wants to get ahold of.

How to Make Pop Art Images in Photoshop [Video]- Weekends are great for learning new photoshop techniques so I thought I’d post another video tutorial today. This one teaches how to convert a regular digital image into a ‘pop art’ image in photoshop.

How to Create a Retro Vintage Designed Clock with Photoshop - The 'Pop Art' craze may have been over for a few decades, but that shouldn't stop you sprucing up your artwork with bold and exciting effects. This tutorial details a simple method for creating funky halftone dots, great for highlighting text and graphical objects.

How to Make Circle Pixels (Pop-art Style) - How to Make a Circle Mosaic of a photograph Pop-art Style

How to Make Retro Celebrity Wallpaper Design - Creating celebrity wallpaper by applying special effect on images

How to Create a Super Retro Style Game Controller - In this tutorial, we're going to be drawing a retro game console controller. Rather than a perspective look, this one will have an isometric look. This tutorial is extremely detailed, and will be fun for all you classic arcade lovers.

Make Your Own Pop Art Photoshop Tutorial - The pop art movement of the 1950s celebrated the birth of consumer culture, taking mundane things like the humble soup can out of the supermarket and into art galleries – often for the very first time.

Make a Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster - In this tutorial, we'll learn how create a turn-of-the-century Vaudeville poster. This uniquely appealing style of advertisement was popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. You sir! You madam! Step right up and prepare to be amazed as we transport an image of two friends back in time to create a poster advertisement without compare!

Make it Worn Vintage Retro Photoshop Tutorial - In a series of three 3 articles I will guide you through the process of designing a worn looking website. I’ll cover the preparation of wireframes and resources, the process of adding texture and detail, and finally the blending of all elements in order to create a unified whole.

Making Retro Dots - Making retro dots with photoshop takes a long time, getting the marquee tool and cutting away and adding bits... Well, now you will learn how to do it automatically with the actions tool!

Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs - I'm a huge fan of James White's work. I love the way he plays with geometric elements and colors. It gives a retro feeling to the design, but at the same time he uses a modern approach. In an interview, he mentioned that he uses a Flash script to generate the vector shapes. Then he does the rest of the job in Illustrator and Photoshop.

Photoshop Serigraphs Retro Vintage Style - Serigraphs are silkscreen prints that, in the hands of artists such as Andy Warhol, Michael Schwab and Antonio Reboiro, can be exciting, colorful, high-contrast images. We’ll use Photoshop to create a serigraph-like look to a photograph.

Photoshop Elements: Photochrom Vintage Postcard - Turn your travel photos into vintage postcards. This effect is based on old photochrom photos, like the one shown in the About Photochroms section of this lesson. This technique works best on colorful photos that have good contrast and lots of detail, especially architectural detail.

Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook - Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Photoshop EffectAlmost synonymous with Pop Art, Andy Warhol was a painter, photographer, filmmaker, and publisher. In the mid-20th century he produced iconic silkscreen paintings of subjects as mundane as soup cans and as glamorous as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. These remain hugely popular, and have sparked countless imitations. Creating your own Pop Art-inspired images with Photoshop is easy, and great fun, too.

Photoshop Tutorial: Old Fantasy Map of Your Area - Put your city on the map in 4 layers. Create an artistic old map of your area.

Photoshop Tutorial: Add a Quick Retro Look to your Images - In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll be showing you how to add a nice, 70’s retro look to your images. It’s a very simple process using either colors or gradients, layer modes and opacities, and also some subtle textures. This effect can be extremely helpful when designing retro-themed posters or something of that nature.

Photoshop Tutorial: Sweet Radio Station Advert Design - In this tutorial we’ll be using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (versions CS3) to create/design a beautiful radio station advertisement. We’ll just be using Illustrator to design a few simple elements, so if you don’t have it or don’t know how to use it, you can easily download some cool design bits from sites like Vecteezy (free) or Vector Stock (premium, very affordable).

Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein - Turn your photos into Lichtenstein inspired pop art. This photoshop tutorial will also show you how to create great-looking half tone shading!

Pop Art Photoshop Tutorial - Transform a photo into retro pop art.

Pin-up Effect - Using a mixture of filters and blending modes, Corey takes a stock photo and transforms it into an old, classic 1950’s pin-up poster.

Retro Dot Photo - Learn how to create that Pop Art effect for a nice vintage retro style.

Retro Photo Photoshop Tutorial - How to easily and quickly turn any photo into a retro style photo, turning the dials back a couple decades.

Retro Wallpaper Effect Tutorial for Photoshop - This tutorial walks you through steps in creating a warped effect that you can use to create artistic and profressional background and wallpapers.

Retro / Vintage Tutorial - A small, simple tutorial explaining a little bit, about a process I sometimes use on my photography! When I was only starting I found myself very intrigued over the process of great artists, and also the retro/vintage feeling many used, but I never really found a tutorial explaining it, maybe there must have been one, but I never found that one! So I decided to mess with photoshop...and end up with this

Retro SunFlower Design - This tutorial will show you how to create sunflower themed wallpaper.

Radio Knobs/Dials of the Past (A Photoshop Tutorial) - A pretty lengthy and image-heavy one at that) This tutorial will guide you through the process of making old style knobs/dials like the ones shown below. This tutorial is non-resolution-dependent, meaning you will be able to apply this on any image resolution and end up with the same result.

Retro Effect Part 1 - In this tutorial I'll show you how to give a retro effect to an image.

Retro Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial - This video tutorial shows how you can create a Retro wallpaper.

Retro Lighting : Ford Mustang : Part 1 - I love to draw cars. I get inspired by retro magazines and 70's lifestyle. My works are powerful, stylish and full of bright colours. I love to work with vectors, I think vectors can create amazing images with a clear and modern look.

Retro Stars Photoshop Tutorial - Create this very cool retro effect that can be used on groovy templates or just on oldskool layouts. Stars are the new wave! This effect was used in the admin-signatures of v8 of the forums...

Retro Splash Display Design Tutorial - In this tutorial you will learn how to create a very retro looking splash display, that works great for signatures, banners, headers, or a great advertisement display for news or print. This tutorial will actually teach you two valuable retro design techniques, starting with a retro swirl half-tone background, and then a fantastic retro dubbed text effect. After reading this tutorial you should be able to experiment and design you own retro splash display with ease.

Retro Text Effect Tutorial - Retro Text and Video Layers Retro text like this looks great but isn't easy to create in Photoshop alone so here we use a mix of Photoshop and Illustrator, raster and vector to create some unique text. The second part of this tutorial explains video layers, something which is relatively new to most people. The final result will be an animated image that could be used for a web header.

Super Retro Game Cartridge Design - Last week, I did an interview with an amazing designer named James White. One thing that I really like in his work is his use of retro style, so I decided I should explore that more. Following that idea, in this tutorial I will show you how to create a very easy, but really cool, 3D and geometric effect in Photoshop. After that, we will go a bit further and create our own retro Atari-style video game cartridge.

Transform a Photo in Illustration, Retro Style - This is the Tutorial number 34 from the 100 Marathon Tutorial As i have told you i will try to add a tutorial each day. I will show you how to chane a normal photo to a illustration.

Two-Color Technicolor Photoshop Tutorial - Simulate the effect of old two-color Technicolor film. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to simulate the colors of two-color Technicolor film and apply color bleeding to photos.

Vintage Collages in Photoshop - Layer found images and handmade elements with Photoshop and Illustrator techniques for a witty, retro style that’s got dozens of uses.

Vintage Effect Tutorial [Video] - In this video I show you how to apply a vintage effect on your picture with Photoshop CS3.

Vintage Heart Design Photoshop Tutorial - Learn how to create this cool retro / vintage design.

Vintage Look Tutorial for Photoshop - Learn how to draw and design a vintage / retro layout with Adobe Photoshop.

Vintage Tutorial - Vintage Tutorial is a simple and well explained tutorial for those wishing to re-create the vintage characteristic of bygone years.

Virtual Letterman Jacket - Recently I had the opportunity to design the header for a friends blog, he wanted a Lettermans Jacket effect but wanted to be able to control the colors and text so we created the jacket from scratch in Photoshop.

WWII Airplane - In this Photoshop tutorial we will use the noise and blur filters to create a brushed metal effect, then a few layer styles to create a cool little airplane graphic.

PAINTSHOP PRO VINTAGE / RETRO DESIGN TUTORIALS

How to create retro effects with Paint Shop Pro Tutorial [Video] - How to create vintage retro effects with PSP.

Make an Old Looking Photo Paintshop Pro Tutorial - I quickly made this for my layout site, and thought it was well useful.

Purple Vintage Photograph Look - Make your picture have a purple edge.

Retro Look : Bring Out the Nostalgia with This Retro iPod Ad Effect - How to create the cool iPod retro look in your next design. Create it with Paintshop Pro.

Retro Effect : Paint Shop Pro Tutorial - In this tutorial we will show you how to make a retro effect in Paint Shop Pro.

Scratch Picture with Vintage Look Paintshop Pro Tutorial - Learn how to make your picture look old & plus with a vintage look

Vintage Paint Shop Pro Tutorial - This is one of the ways you can get a picture with a vintage look. I'm using PSP 9.

Vintage Image with Paint Shop Pro Tutorial - VPaintshop Pro Tutorials - Turn a plain picture into a vintage one!

Vintage Icon Photoshop Tutorial - How to create a retro icon with Paint Shop Pro.

Vintage Picture PSP Tutorial - Learn how to make a very simple vintage, aged photo look with Paint Shop Pro.

YouTube : Corel Paint Shop Pro x2 Tutorial: Vintage Effect [Video] = How to create a vintage photo effect with Paint Shop Pro x2.

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR VINTAGE / RETRO DESIGN TUTORIALS

20 Vector Illustrated Masterworks, Deconstructed - In this post, Chris Spooner dissects 20 high-end vector illustrations and explains that we can learn a whole lot from every one of them.

Create a Retro Style Poster with Shapes, Patterns, and Eagles - In this tutorial, we'll show the inspired Adobe Illustrator artist how to create a retro style poster. We'll learn how to create shapes by using the Pathfinder tools, by joining paths, and by applying graphic patterns. We will also take advantage of the Appearance Palette and have some fun with applying multiple strokes to objects.

DIY vintage T-shirts Design Tutorial - It’s easy to create authentic collegiate T-shirt designs using Illustrator, Photoshop and a good old-fashioned iron. In this tutorial, illustrator Derek Lea reveals how combining both applications can create stunning results.

How to Build a Retro Emblem in Less Than 10 Minutes - I hope you found useful our last tutorial. In this tutorial I will use the complex vector sun rays we’ve created there and use them to quickly create a vintage looking emblem using Adobe Illustrator.

How to Create a Colorful Retro Style TV - In this tutorial, we’ll teach the intermediate vector artist how to create a retro style TV with gradients and layers. We’ll also create a nice funky background with circles and lines. Let’s have some fund creating this colorful illustration.

How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment - In this Illustrator tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a trendy retro type treatment with a free font, gradients, blends, and some scatter brushes. It’s a relative easy tutorial containing techniques that can be quickly applied to many other type treatments and various graphic elements.

Illustrator Tutorial: How To Make 3D Vector Vintage Stars - I’m going to walk you through a technique to create vintage looking 3d stars in Illustrator. You guessed it, 100% vector. By the time we’re done, there will be 0 (zero) effects, or filters. You will have a very useful vintage star vector on your artboard, and a new skill to go with it. With vector art gaining ground every day because of its long-term value and versatility, new vector art styles are constantly emerging.

Illustrator Tutorial Create and draw Retro/Glam Sparkles - In the following video we will cover how to create retro looking sparkles. The bulk of the video will cover the many advantages to using symbols when and where you can in your illustrations when dealing with many of the same graphic objects. Learn to edit 100's of objects in no time, and learn about many of the symbolism tools available to you in Adobe Illustrator!

Imitating A Scanner Darkly in Adobe Illustrator - Using Illustrator’s pencil tool and shapes of solid color, you can imitate the graphic novel styling of A Scanner Darkly. An animator from the film shows us how.

Learn How To Create Two-Tone and Graphic Radials - There are many types of radial patterns, and I find it helpful to have some of the more common kind on hand. I’ll show you how to make two types of radials: two-tone radials, and the sort that has a repeating element, or what I think of as graphic radials. This tutorial is for the beginner Adobe Illustrator artist.

Personalise a Vintage Insignia - It’s easy to create your own logo or insignia using old pieces of clip art, Illustrator and a photocopier, says Ryan Clark. But giving it an authentic vintage feel using type, colour and shading takes time and patience.

Photoshop Vintage Effect Tutorial - Back in October I took this photo, in front of our house. A cool scene, bright colors and a double rainbow. After seeing this picture on my Flickr page, I received an e-mail from Marco who asked me about the post process of this image. Now here is my answer…

Pop Art Seamless Pattern Using Adobe Illustrator - Primary Category: IllustratorThis tutorial will give you a new creative edge to your designs or just add a little something different to the more mundane creations. Using Illustrator tools, aids, and techniques our task becomes easier. Join me in this tutorial to find out how.

Retro Car Vectors - All you need is Illustrator, some inks and some brushes to turn a photograph of a car into a vector illustration. John Kelly of Joke Art talks you through the process

Swingin’ Retro Look in Adobe Illustrator - There definitely seems to be a resurgence of retro design techniques all over the place. It can be seen everywhere. Perhaps the appeal is the simplicity of the technique. Adobe Illustrator has just the tools to achieve this look quickly and easily. Here we’re going to create a retro look using custom brushes and symbols.

Turning a Photo into Lichtenstein Style Pop Art with Illustrator - Roy Lichtenstein's pop art comic book images are as familiar now as they were in the 1960's. They demonstrate a stylized way of presenting a photo of yourself or anything else you can think of. Using Illustrator's custom brushes and swatches, we'll be recreating a Lichtenstein style of effect in this intermediate level tutorial.

GIMP VINTAGE / RETRO DESIGN TUTORIALS

Authentic Vintage Effect with GIMP Tutorial - A beautiful effect for giving your photos an old vintage feel.

Create a Worn Vintage Pop Art Design with GIMP Tutorial - Pop art, vintage, and grunge are some of my favorite types of styles. They're back and you see them everywhere. Well, today I'm going to teach you how to create a worn vintage pop art design in Gimp based on a tutorial by Alvaro Guzman at PSDTuts.

GIMP QuickTips: Vintage Colours [Video] - Using Curves in GIMP to get more vintage looking colours - where the blacks fade to a dark blue/purple and whites fade to a creamy yellow.

Give Your Photos a Retro Feel With the GIMP - A curves adjustment can dramatically change the look of your photo

Photo Montage Tricks with GIMP - Alright today I am going to teach you how to create one of those colorful photo montages usually used in advertising. The original tutorial was written by Ian Keltie, a Newcastle-based commercial artist, for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. We are going to try to achieve something similar to this.

Retro Halftone Text in GIMP - As I mentioned on the weekend, I saw a photoshop tutorial for halftone text. I thought it was kind of cool… retro. So I decided to try it out in GIMP (v2.4). It’s really simple!

Retro Backgrounds in GIMP - There are many ways to create retro backgrounds in GIMP. Here's mine: [link] There's nothing to download for this tutorial.

Vintage Look in GIMP - A tutorial for creating a vintage look in Gimp.

Vintage Old Photo Photo Effect GIMP Tutorial - Learn how to transform your normal photos into old-looking, vintage ones.

Vintage Script with GIMP - Create a vintage looking effect to your new photographs.

VINTAGE / RETRO DESIGN INSPIRATION

List of 180+ of the Best Design Inspiration Showcase Sites (Graphic Designers & Web Designers) - Are you looking for a little inspiration for your next design project? This list will get you through next million inspiration jams. This is a list that boasts 180+ design inspiration sites. If I have missed any inspirational sites, please comment about them below and I will add them to the list if they belong on the list.

28 Vintage / Retro Web Design - Vintage design is a current trend. I got you a nice collection of 28 retro websites for inspiration.

Awesome Pin-Ups Vintage Inspiration - Who doesn't love Pin-ups? These pretty ladies have been out there for over 50, 60 years, and still look fresh and awesome. And they are great source of inspiration!

Ad Access - The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

Adaholic - Visit the Adaholic art gallery and find your favorite 100% original print ad and get a piece of fabulous history to enjoy and collect!

Ad Flip - Adflip brags to be "the worlds largest collection of classic printed ads" and has some "Gallery of the absurd" style comments in the top ten section. Collection is huge - from the 40's onwards - neatly categorised and searchable. Good as well as "so bad they are funny" ads in here - as well as just bad

Advertising Archive - Buy or sell old ads here, they have ads dating from the turn of the century, on the first page you are greeted by the Heinz Ketchup Ad where a woman exlaims "you mean a woman can open it?" about the new twist off cap. Oh dear! From the ad-pre-historic to clasics, visitors can search and download adverts from all eras in the vast database

American Package Museum - The primary objective of this site is to preserve and display specimens of American package design from the early decades of the 20th century.

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) - Presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.

HAT Archive - Provides a vast and unique research resource. The collections consist of every kind of advertising and public relations material, including original artwork, posters, point of sale promotions, brochures, proofs, press and magazine cuttings, complete consumer magazines, direct mail, photographs, transparencies, audio and video tapes,

Tic Toc Toys - Crazy ad galleries, kids food packaging, cartoon charachters and animated 1950's ads in this retro collection.

Back to Basics : Inspiration from 1940s War Posters - I recently came across a library of US WW2 Posters and pulled out a selection of examples for as a showcase of inspiration. They each rely on the basics of design; composition, typography and colour (be it a limited palette of mostly black and red inks to conform to the available printing technologies) to put across a short and concise message with high visual impact.

Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design - 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.

Colors Pretty : Vintage Inspiration - Feeling a bit uninspired? Maybe this collection of vintage posters, prints, book covers, and postcards can kickstart your creative engine.

Comic Style Effect in Pixelmator - I know it's been quite awhile since the last time I published a Pixelmator tutorial, but the wait is over. This weekend I took some time to play around with Pixelmator and I also had the opportunity to test out the new beta version called Tempo. I must say, the new features are really neat. That’s all I can say about that.

Design Inspiration: Early 20th Century Posters - Of all periods of graphic design, my favorite has to be the early 20th century. I love the use of color, and the typography is just beautiful. Recently I’ve found a nice source of inspiration in that vein at InternationalPoster.com where there is a huge collection of vintage posters searchable by subject, period, style, artist, etc. They also have a very interesting history of poster art to peruse. Some of my favorite finds there:

Grain Edit : The Year in Review - Tomorrow we will be celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Grain Edit and we’ve got a big giveaway planned, so be sure to stop by! We’ve had a great year and want to thank all our awesome readers for their wonderful comments and for making Grain Edit a frequent destination.

Inspiration from Vintage Ads - A few days ago I was working on a project that needed some Vintage Images, like old ads. I decided to look for them on the web, more precisely at Flickr.com. After like 5 hours I had found so many images that I had to stop or else I would spend the rest of my life viewing them.

The Serif : Vintage Design - Take a look at these vintage designs.

Totally Amazing Vintage Posters - Throughout my life I've been mesmerized by posters -- particularly those created by the Europeans of the mid-20th Century. These bold, graphic and inventive posters continue to captivate contemporary illustrators, and while many of us have liberally taken inspiration from iconic poster graphics, they pale in comparison to those created from 1930-1960 in France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, and virtually every country on the European continent.

Vintage Design: European Graphic Design 1950 - 1970 - A nice selection of posters and other artwork from the golden ages (1950-1970) of European graphic design. And, of course, great design means great color… check out the inspiring work below, and click over to the original post for more.

Vintage Web Design Inspiration - Recently, I saw a very nice collection of vintage ads posted by Abduzeedo (via Digg). Speaking of vintage design, I also have a nice collection of vintage websites that I dug up from my old bookmarks and Best Web Gallery submissions. I’m not a big fan of vintage design, but if you want to see more vintage inspiration, here are 23+ sites.

 

Best Graphic Design Career and Business Books - Ultimate List of Books for Freelancers & New Designers - I decided to compile a list of the best graphic design career and business books collected from reading people's favorites listed on forum posts and blogs. I came up with the following graphic design career and business books.