Project Title: Surreal World 🌀✨

Description: Hey everyone! Here is my submission for the Recraft Challenge — a poster series called "Surreal World"! 🎨

For this project, I dove deep into the Public Domain Image Archive and gathered vintage 18th and 19th-century illustrations from various talented artists of that era — think old-school book engravings, scientific botanical plates, and classical etchings.

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I wanted to give these historical artworks a fresh, weird, and fun twist by mixing them with modern surrealism, bold colors, and psychedelic vibes. With Recraft, I blended classic cross-hatching textures and aged paper looks with funky symbols, neon contrasts, and dreamlike patterns.

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Hope you enjoy this little trip where history meets surreal imagination! Let me know what you think! 👇✨

i love these!

I fell for Japan as a teenager, visited many times, then lived there for seven years, long enough to know the konbini (convenience store) is a cultural institution: open 24/7, constantly rotating seasonal products, and locked in a friendly rivalry over the best coffee and sweets. My other obsession is Taisho and early Showa graphic design, and while searching for inspiration, I found the work of Sugiura Hisui, whose lithograph posters announced Mitsukoshi’s new spring collections a century ago. So I thought: how would Hisui create ads for today's convenience stores? I turned his posters into a Recraft V4 Style and launched the Spring 2027 range of Hinata Mart, a fictional convenience store. The series pairs today’s bestsellers (fruit sandwiches, fried chicken, iced drinks, oden) with modern fixtures like the ATM and the self-serve coffee machine. Hope you'll like it!

This intro already pulled me in — 7 years in Japan is the real credential for a konbini story! They're truly a cultural institution.

I can already feel the seasonal packaging + coffee rivalry angle. Did you use Recraft for the illustration style? Curious to see how you captured...