Retro design has emerged today as designers begin to look back to the vivid 20th century and find inspirations for new graphic styles in the depressive pixel age. Some think the collective and sensational reference of the old time aesthetics is the retrieval of the lost enthusiasm for new findings and the future in the new century, others reckon it as a tribute to the prominent art and design movements between the roaring twenties and the early nineties. Taking a trip down memory lane and witnessing a bold and pronounced application of shapes, typefaces and illustration works in contemporary graphic art, Flashback unveils how the epoch persists to be an enduring spring inside modern creative studios in the well-defined sections of Geometry, Typography and Illustration.

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3group
abraka.com (Traffic NYC)
Ahonen & Lamberg
Airside
Alexandra Roucheray
almost Modern
alt
Ashby Design
Atmostheory
Automatic Art and Design
Ben Barry
Bryony Lloyd
Character San Francisco
Commonwealth
Company
Cristiana Couceiro
Dorophy Tang
Eli Carrico
Emily Forgot
En Bloc
Fantasist/Adrian Mititelu
Feed
Gavin Potenza
George Myers
gggrafik
G-MAN
Good Shape Design
Hey
Hort
IAAH / iamalwayshungry
ICE CREAM FOR FREE™
ilovedust
In Graphics We Trust
itsmematt
Janine Rewell
Jas Bhachu
Jeffrey Bowman
Kate Gibb
KesselsKramer
Khaki Creative & Design
Kokoro & Moi
La Boca
Landor Associates Sydney
Leslie David
Letman
Madebymade
Mademoiselle, Messieurs

Magdalena Nowak
Mario Hugo
materia / Jacques Magiera
Matt Keers
Max Erdenberger
Michael Gillette
milchhof:atelier
Mitchell Paone
Müesli
MultiAdaptor
Nazario Graziano
Negro™
Nerdo Design Collective
Network Osaka
New Future Graphic
Nicknack Creative Pty Ltd.
Niels Fyrst & Andreas Arnild Peitersen
Niessen & de Vries
Oh Yeah studio
Peter Sunna
Pied de mouche
PIPI
Playful
PLAZM
Quentin Delobel
Quinta-feira
Ragnar Freyr
Re-public
Rockstudios Design
SPVZ™
Studio Blanco
Studio On Fire
StudioAnti™
The ill-studio
Therese Vandling
TNOOC
Toko Design
Tomato
Tomi & Cherry
TwoPoints.Net
Valero Doval
Village Green
wahahafactory.com
WILLOW
www.janenrandoald.be