Where do you get your inspiration from? One of my favourite places is designreviewed.com (http://...Where do you get your inspiration from? One of my favourite places is designreviewed.com (http://...
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Where do you get your inspiration from? One of my favourite places is designreviewed.com. They have an incredible archive of magazine covers from every decade since the 1910s, among so many other fantastic historical references and resources. It's always a valuable challenge to recreate older design work using modern software, and I spent this morning designing a poster inspired by a 1980s Leo Lionni featured cover work. I don't think you can ever really emulate true paper texture digitally, but you definitely can get close! Here's a little timelapse of my process in Photoshop, and some pics of the final poster (my reference is at the end). Let me know what you think!

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Where do you get your inspiration from? One of my favourite places is designreviewed.com . They have an incredible archive of magazine covers from every...
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very nice keemie
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thanks for the site recommendation.
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Bookmarked. Magazine covers going back to the 1910s is an incredible reference for anyone doing visual work.
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