Michael de Pippo created these awesome retro posters featuring the “best band ever conceived” — Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. “My idea was simple; create a vintage concert poster for each band member (Dr. Teeth, Janice, Sgt. Floyd Pepper, Zoot and Animal). Using clean, crisp vectors, negative space and few colours, I wanted to [...]
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For the most part, the retro opening for X-Men: First Class is really nifty. It takes the series theme music from the nineties cartoon and slows it down, turning it into a unsettling, moody piece of music. The animations are great, as is the incorporation of period-era historical figures and newspaper clippings. But the movie [...]
From First Showing: “The latest edition of the Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow kicks off next week with 10 different events and 12 movies. As a promo for the 2010 Rolling Roadshow Tour (via We Made This), the Drafthouse commissioned artist Olly Moss (official website) to design gorgeous new posters for each of the movies. Its [...]
If only the Portland Merc was as classy as these bike posters designed for them by Script & Seal, with art direction by Nicole Lavelle, for their Bike Issue. Alas, that’s not the case, but these are still great, with a retro-propaganda-esque vibe. All of the posters can be bought here for either $32 or $37. [...]
I don’t think I’ve tired yet of the trend for graphic designers to reinterpret modern pop culture touchstones in a retro bent. The latest example is courtesy of Steven Finch, who’s taken our beloved comic books and turned them into arty dimestore novels. [via]
I smell a book deal for this tumblr, Keggers of Yore, which posts pictures of retro keggers. [via]
