Retro style poster design

“Vintage Mario Bros Poster”

One of my most cherished memories was the Christmas day that myself and my brother opened a large box in the middle of our lounge.  Inside was our first foray into the world of gaming, a love that has lasted to this day.  The original Nintendo Entertainment System was all we could think about for years.  Those first games like Kid Icarus, Cobra Triangle, Tiger Heli and of course Mario Bros were burnt into our consciousness.

For the design of the retro style Marios Bros poster I used a combination of vectors created in CorelDraw, careful recreation of those iconic sprites and photoshop techniques to create a low-fi retro inspired poster design.  I went through many iterations but this was the final version I am most happy with.  In some previous versions I leaned more heavily into making the design pixellated, but in the end a combination of halftone and weathering felt right.

Hope you like and comments always welcome.

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