Grungy Art & Design has always been something of an “easy ride” for a Designer to pull off.  Find some old and run down buildings or architecture? Check! Scour deviantart.com for some grungy Photoshop brushes? Check! Mush it all around in Photoshop, et voilà!

This gets you only so far, the magic happens when you combine a grungy processing technique with strong vintage design.  The Art Deco era and WW2 Art and design posters are a great and interesting area to read up on.

I’ll be sharing some of my techinques and findings soon. Including the all important RESEARCH. with pointers and some Inspiration for you to check out.

We’ve placed a bunch of our Landscape Photographs up on our new DeviantArt Store. Don’t worry about seeing all the Dollars in the currency, you can switch it to good old British Pounds Sterling.

By Splitting up a photograph into distinct visual planes at varying depths through the shot in Photoshop then painting in by hand the missing details, you can then recompile this scene in After Effects to create some stunning slow motion 3D-Like moments.