Uses of public domain / vintage illustrations in modern designs

[PistolPete]

I was poking around the interweb for some inspiration & I came across this poster for an OCMS gig.

I rather like the way it incorporates (what I assume is) a genuine old illustration into a modern design. I wondered if you guys had other examples of good designs where a vintage illustration has been used to great effect outside of it's original purpose?

 

[scotty]

Not sure it's a "good example" but...

 

[Martin Scurry]

did you try devianar? if not you can try it because you can get lots of vintage arts in modern design.

 

[PistolPete]

Since I don't seem to be able to edit the original post to fix the dead link this is the poster I was originally talking about

 

[PistolPete]

This is one I came up with mucking around to try and achieve something similar

 

[scotty]

This is one I came up with mucking around to try and achieve something similar

Cool! Like the mis-registration.

 

[scotty]

If your into old engravings then you can get them free in vector format from VintageVectors and RetroVectors.

 

[PistolPete]

Cool! Like the mis-registration.

I must have a word with my printer about his sloppy work

Thanks for the links to the vector sites - it is very much the sort of stuff I'm into. The fiddle came from this ad which was on thegraphicsfairy.com

 

[scotty]

I like that kind of stuff too.

Something that might be of use to you is a Photoshop plug-in/filter called Engraver 3.

It makes Etchings/engravings of photos that look like of bank notes and looks great.
I think there's also a manual way of doing it which is on Chris Spooners blog in the form of a tutorial.

 

[PistolPete]

Ah yes, I'd found the Spoon Graphics tutorial - he also has a Photoshop action you can download that performs all the steps for you. I used it on this revolver that turned up in a T-shirt design you helped me with a couple of weeks back

 

[scotty]

Sweet!

That looks great!
Engraver 3 is good because you can customise it really easily but nothing you can't achieve yourself (as you've shown).

I also found that an image trace in Illustrator works quite well on these if you need to have it as a vector.