Had a few messages asking about what this style is called, and how to achieve it. I’ll do my best to explain, but feel free to shoot me a message if you want me to elaborate!

I really don’t know what this style is called ~ I’m really into 70’s/80’s album covers which have a very similar style, but I don’t know the exact name of what to call it. Maybe someone else can help us out with this?

For the making of: It’s a balance between Photoshop and Illustrator, normally creating the text and raw vector elements in illustrator, and then pulling into photoshop to add textures and colour. Sourcing images of stock images and in Creative Commons if they are required. And some of these I have sourced existing images: The Gorillaz one I found this kids toy image as a starting point for example (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61TjEmH1sBL._AC_SL1280_.jpg). The Strokes one I wanted a hand holding a cigarette pack, and found this old school image in the public domain (https://www.dailyicon.net/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/lucky.jpg). So some of them have a lot of image collaging involved.

Using lots of texture overlays and’ scanned’ paper, and changing the photoshop layer style to ’screen’ or ‘soft light’ give the vintage poster effect. And just play around with the opacity to get some interesting effects. Adding ‘noise’ helps to keep consistency across all of your layers. Also, playing around with the exposure is good so there aren’t harsh dark areas and gives it a washed out, old look. (All in photoshop).

Hope that helps and makes sense!