24 Stunning Examples of Retro Futurism in Poster Design

posted on 27th July 2010 by Callum Chapman with the tags: "Futurism", "Posters", "Retro" .

Retro Futurism is a design style that has been growing in popularity over the past few years. It is a combination of what people think the future will be like and retro design. An exploration between retro and modern technology, which as you’d expect leads to some really interesting results.

Common inspiration for the trend are movie/game covers/posters from the 1960-80′s, such as sci-fi movies and shows (Robocop, Transformers) and retro games (Atari, Commodore).

This showcase presents 24 stunning examples of posters that use the retro futurism style.

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Jim 27 Jul 2010
All that retro reminds me of Pink Floyd!
Derek 27 Jul 2010
“If you like this showcase, the following book: “No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism” discusses postmodernism in design, and how there are no longer and rules to what should and shouldn’t be done when designing – we recommend it!”
No longer any rules? I think that was obvious oh so many decades ago when dadism happened. These retro designs above don’t even harken back that far.
Maria 28 Jul 2010
What do you mean dadism? and yeah it reminds me too of Pink Floyd.
Ben Daly Mohamed 28 Jul 2010
@jim : Ya they have some pink floyd design on them ^^
Walter 29 Jul 2010
I love design, these examples are great. I like to recommend this one too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/solucionesseo/4725920014/ Thanks
Junior 30 Jul 2010
Wow. The posters are so cool…
Brian 30 Jul 2010
That rainbow pyramid one reminds me strongly of Michael Paukner’s design: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/3987146588/in/set-72157622340623679/
Haito51 1 Aug 2010
if possible I would like to get critique on one of my designs http://www.radiohabitat.com/images/daft-punk.jpg it was a daft punk like poster design I was thinking of. It was suppose to go into another photo piece as a poster in a background.
Been pretty busy and haven’t got a chance to get back to it
Pausleal 22 Aug 2010
Wow this is a great resource.. I’m enjoying it.. good article!
chema 19 Mar 2011
ooh yess I love this style
http://www.mendezmendez.com/index.php?/project/illustration/
http://www.mendezmendez.com/index.php?/commercial/digital-collages/
you can see more of my work on http://www.mendezmendez.com