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30 of the Best Free Retro and Vintage Textures
Our experts have hand-picked the best free vintage and retro textures to take your work to the next level! Find your next favorite texture today!

Look at me! I’m the Cap’n now! A shallow dive on brand mascots
Since the 1930s, American cereal has been festooned with some of the most popular brand mascots ever designed. In this article, we'll take a shallow dive into the history of brand mascots and some of the most popular and notable brand characters created in American pop culture.

Westinghouse Brochure Inspirational Images
Inspirational images from a 1955 Westinghouse brochure for a dishwasher. Includes classic retro illustration, 1950s color palette, and tons of images to get ideas to capture the style of mid-century advertising.

Fright-Fall Drawing Prompts
Our daily drawing prompts for the Fright-Fall Drawing Challenge. Includes calendar, download PDF, and list so you can easily find each day's drawing prompt in October.

How to Get the Most Out of a Daily Drawing Challenge
Here are 10 tips for preparing and participating in a daily drawing challenge. Including how to prepare, finding inspiration, saving time, and creating a drawing assembly line.

LOVESTRUCK, or Can’t Get Enough of Your Font, Babe!
Artist and educator Chris Sperandio guides us through three old-school methods of type production for print and design work. Learn a little bit about the dark days of setting type by hand and how you can recreate the warmth and nostalgia of the 1970s with Lovestruck.

50 Best Free Retro and Vintage Fonts
Check out our curated selection of the 50 best free retro and vintage fonts. Regularly updated so you'll always find the best typefaces available on the web.

Retro Surf Art and Design Inspiration
Soak in a cool mix of retro surf art from the 1950s and 1960s including surfing posters, posters from surf movies, album artwork for surf music, and advertisements for surf fashion from the 1950s and 1960s.

5 Reasons to Try Our New Phantom Paper Texture Pack
Works like magic, easy to control! Here are 5 reasons you should try Phantom Paper textures to add authentic paper textures to your art and design work.

The 10 Best Vintage Affinity Brushes
Our Affinity Textures, bundles, and brushes don’t just save you time; they save you hassle, headache, and hand cramping too. And yes, we did it all for you!

Retro Digital Art: How to Start Drawing Digitally
We’ll walk you through how to start drawing retro art digitally so you can start creating unique pieces of work with the hand-sourced vintage tools designed to make the entire process a walk in the park.

Our Top 10 Retro Photoshop Texture Picks
If you’re not new to the game and simply looking for the best Photoshop Textures out there, you’ve come to the right place!
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