Re-imagine found vintage images as modern minimalist digital collages with a hint of a risograph look and reduced colour palette! Using vintage images and giving them new life as modern minimalist digital collages is a great way to develop your visual language, create exciting work for your portfolio and level up your Adobe Photoshop skills along the way!
There are many ways you can approach creating collages, and in this class, we will explore creating digital collages with a timeless minimal look by combining vintage illustrations of animals with linear charts or graphs, some vintage type and clean, digital geometric shapes, and then giving all these elements a graphic look reminiscent of screen prints or risographs, and tying the composition together with a reduced colour palette.
Working with vintage images and turning them into prints and surface patterns has been one of my favourite areas of visual experimentation for years. And in this class, I am super excited to share with you my favourite approach to creating minimalist collages using vintage graphics! Combining detailed images of animals with technical drawings, charts or some sort of linear infographics allows you to create a strong visual contrast and a juxtaposition between the organic, natural forms with something dry and technical which always makes for appealing visuals. And mixing in additional elements, such as type and solid geometric shapes helps to add more visual interest to your work.
