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American illustrator and designer Eric Comstock has a retro mid-century modern aesthetic. He worked in advertising for 11 years before turning his bright, quirky style to freelance illustration, and Charlie Piechart and The Case of The Missing Pizza Slice is his first children’s book crypto signal groups. If you’re looking for retro and vintage illustration inspiration, Eric is an artist who’s rocking it.
About the authorThis is the quest article by Ayesha Ambreen, a Creative Content Strategist, Top Author on Quora, Featured SlideShare Author, and Graphic Designer. Best known for her creative visuals and viral content ideas, Ayesha’s work has been featured on blogs such as Entrepreneur.com, LifeHacker, CreativeBloq, Hubspot and more. She holds a degree in telecommunication engineering with extensive experience in writing, outreach, strategic visuals, and search engine marketing.
First, for obvious reasons, you need to pick the decade that you wish your viewers to reminisce about through the use of retro in design. But it is not that simple. There are tons of options to select from, and it is easy to get confused when picking a decade to ruminate. Sometimes, the 20’s design looks like a 30’s design, and certain elements that were popular or common in the 60’s might be echoed in the 80’s or 90’s. Design comes from design; inspiration begets inspiration.
Here, we’ve whizzed through some of the best-known design styles that can be considered as ‘vintage’. As we touched on at the beginning of this article, we can class a style as being ‘vintage’ by looking for all or some of these three qualities—nostalgia, perception of age, and visual style.
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With a mission to create an online marketplace that is simple, secure, and profitable for artists everywhere, ArtMajeur has created the world’s first global virtual art gallery with over 10 million visitors. ArtMajeur offers you exclusive prices on original artworks by emerging and established international artists, shipping worldwide in 24 to 48h to your doorstep for free. Enjoy our selection of original artworks and high-quality prints that will make perfect gifts or decorate your walls with style!
At Singulart, we believe every space deserves art as unique as the people who inhabit it. As the leading online art gallery, we make it easy and joyful to buy art online or sell art online —connecting a global community of art collectors and contemporary artists.
Of course ArtMajeur is mostly an art shop, as artists need to showcase and sell their art, but apart from the sale, we do love all arts, and certainly hope the platform we created reflects just that. Our art marketplace is not limited to view artworks and exclusive collections. We want it to be a place where art culture lives: the art shop is bound to a cultural space where one can also browse art fairs, explore hist favourite artist exhibit, learn about the latest art news and events and exhibitions. For those who enjoy going to the museum, contemporary art galleries, or even learn about arts at the library, our art blog provides useful tips to collect and buy modern art, gives you a better understanding artistic movements with portraits of famous artists and iconic works. Also with a glimpse of art history, we talk about both ancient famous arts and the most important works of the century. ArtMajeur is not only an art shop but also a vibrant art community where creative people who create, make and fabric the arts, including art major students (art schools, university and college student) can talk about the sale of artworks in their art shop. They can meet art lovers, art critics and people from the art market to talk about culture, enquire about a major exhibition and exchange about arts.
With a mission to create an online marketplace that is simple, secure, and profitable for artists everywhere, ArtMajeur has created the world’s first global virtual art gallery with over 10 million visitors. ArtMajeur offers you exclusive prices on original artworks by emerging and established international artists, shipping worldwide in 24 to 48h to your doorstep for free. Enjoy our selection of original artworks and high-quality prints that will make perfect gifts or decorate your walls with style!
At Singulart, we believe every space deserves art as unique as the people who inhabit it. As the leading online art gallery, we make it easy and joyful to buy art online or sell art online —connecting a global community of art collectors and contemporary artists.
Empire of the Sun artwork
And today, in 2014, 100 years since the start of the First World War, it seems more important than ever not only to understand the nature and long-term effects of conflict, but also the process of looking back at the past…”
Conflict, Time, Photography is curated at Tate Modern by Simon Baker, Curator of Photography and International Art, with Shoair Mavlian, Assistant Curator, and Professor David Mellor, University of Sussex. It is organised by Tate Modern in association with the Museum Folkwang, Essen and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, where it will tour in spring and summer 2015 respectively. The exhibition is also accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue from Tate Publishing and a programme of talks, events and film screenings at Tate Modern.
Shomei Tomatsu (Japanese, 1930-2012) Atomic Bomb Damage – Wristwatch Stopped at 11.02, August 9, 1945, Nagasaki 1961 Gelatin silver print on paper 253 x 251mm Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
In an innovative move, the works are ordered according to how long after the event they were created from moments, days and weeks to decades later. Photographs taken seven months after the fire bombing of Dresden are shown alongside those taken seven months after the end of the First Gulf War. Images made in Vietnam 25 years after the fall of Saigon are shown alongside those made in Nakasaki 25 years after the atomic bomb. The result is the chance to make never-before-made connections while viewing the legacy of war as artists and photographers have captured it in retrospect…
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