40 High Quality Typographic Poster Design Tutorials

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Wanna create some stunning typographic poster designs but do not know what to start with? Here is the solution to your problem. We have put together more than 40 high quality typographic poster designs tutorials for those who are interested in learning how to create such type of poster designs. In this collection, you will find high quality tutorials that will help you learn different techniques and will guide you regarding the tools used in creating typographic poster design.

So without any further ado, here we are presenting the complete collection of amazing and high quality typographic poster design tutorials. Enjoy looking into this collection and have more fun using them in your work. We hope that you will find this collection inspiring.

Create a Retro Metal Text poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to create a retro/grunge looking metal text using some basic Photoshop techniques as well as a texture. We are going to then finish off the image using another texture and a few other techniques to bring the whole image together.

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How to Create an Ice-cold Poster with 3D Text

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to combine stock images and 3D text into a cool poster. We’ll use an icy theme for it and color it the way we want. You’ll see it’s not that hard to create a simple appealing poster with effective use of text and imagery.

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Design a Retro Typography Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn to create a cool poster using Photoshop & Illustrator. This tutorial demonstrates some useful techniques combining Illustrator and Photoshop to get the job done.

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Create a Nature Text Effect Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to make a poster inspired by WWF creative posters. With a couple of images, we will create a beautiful realistic typography with natural theme. We will learn how to blend these images together to make them become a nice one. This tutorial is full of tricks and tips to manage layers and your images.

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Design a Sin City Style Poster

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create that effect in Photoshop, but this time we’ll use Illustrator to create the perspectives and text. We will walk through the process of creating the effect; However, it’s always good if you play around and test different settings to see how it works. That for me is the best way to learn.

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Create an Event Poster with C4D and Photoshop

In this tutorial we will learn how to create an Event Poster with C4D and Photoshop.

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Create a Trendy Galactic Poster Design in Photoshop

Galactic space scenes are a popular theme for digital art, they’re packed full of texture and vibrant colour, which are two ingredients of an awesome design! Using Photoshop’s blending modes along with a mix of textures and brushes, let’s get lost in space and create an abstract cosmos poster design.

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Design a Space-Themed Poster with Photoshop

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we are going to design a poster with space as its central theme. We’re also going to have a high emphasis on creating beautiful typography to match our theme. I will show you how to develop consistent lighting, re-coloring the scene to help set the mood, and many more Photoshop techniques. The tutorial’s final product is a poster/ad for a mythical TV show called “Space”.

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Typographic Poster Tutorial Using Photoshop

Typography is one of the buzzwords these days when it comes to cool poster designs. So in this tutorial, we will show you how to make your own typographic poster, but to make things interesting, with a more nostalgic theme to it.

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Create and Then Shatter a Grid, while Making a Typographic Poster

Let’s get our own share of typography with this dark and grungy poster. No, this is not your typical design, as we’ll be ‘breaking the grid’ in hope of creating a dynamic and exciting layout. So grab the usual tools of the trade, Photoshop and Illustrator, and follow these steps into creating your own solution.

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Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography

In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create a vintage, retro-modernist poster in Photoshop. You’ll also learn some vintage coloring techniques, retro photo effects, and some cool 3d typographic effects.

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Designing a Typographic Concept Poster

In this tutorial we will take you through a few steps that will show you how designer created a poster design.

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Create a Retro Grunge Typographic Poster

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Retro Grunge Typographic Poster.

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Creating a Spectrum Poster Design in Photoshop

In this tutorial, Jonathan Wong walks you through how to create a Spectrum Poster design using Adobe Photoshop. So pull up a chair and join in as Jonathan takes us on a trip through his creative process.

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Make a Retro-Space Typography Poster with Colorful Lights

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a stunning and high-impact retro-style typography poster that’s out of this world (literally). I will walk you through the steps for creating 3D text by combining the power of Photoshop and Cinema 4D. You’ll also learn how to create unique and detailed light streaks that give the typography poster its signature look.

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Create a Variety of 3D Lettering Effects for Poster Design

In this tutorial we will showcase three different approaches for creating simple 3D lettering effects in the context of poster design. Onward and upward we go!

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How To Create a Retro Style Typographic Poster Design

Follow this step by step tutorial to create a retro style typographic poster design with distressed textures and a muted colour scheme. We’ll create a typographic layout based on the number ‘one’ using Illustrator’s easy manipulation tools, then switch over to Photoshop to lay out the poster design composition and grunge everything up with some textures to create that cool dated retro look.

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Create a Typographic Poster Using Photoshop and Wordle

In this Awesome Photoshop tutorial, we are going to show you how to create a Typographic poster of your favorite lyric.

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Design a classic serif poster

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a classic serif poster.

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Creating a Retro Grunge Poster

This tutorial is an add on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro.

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Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial

Starting with the design application of Adobe Illustrator create a group of vector based geometric lines at dynamic 45 degree angles, then follow the walkthrough to rough them up with brush textures in Adobe Photoshop resulting in a cool and trendy design style.

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Create an Awesome Grunge Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will walk through the process of creating a grunge poster. We will cover techniques like creating diamond shaped patterns, knocking out white backgrounds and keeping layer transparency. This tutorial includes a text version as well as a video version. Both cover the same techniques so take what you prefer and enjoy!

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Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design

This time we’ll look at stripping back the tools to creating an interesting and eye-catching poster with a single typographic word.

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Design a Simple Textured Typographic Poster in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, we will demonstrate how to design a simple, textured and clean typographic poster. Following the steps in this tutorial, you will find techniques for creating a beautiful textured background and working with type in Photoshop.

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Inception Poster with Repousse in Photoshop CS5

So in this tutorial we will show you how to create the effect of one of the Inception posters, the one with the word Inception made of buildings on an aerial photo of a city.

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Create a Pulsing Poster with a Vinyl Record and Grunge Type

In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a vinyl record with blends and opacity masks. We’ll also create some funky pulsing elements, grunge typography, and put it together into a unique poster design. Let’s jump into this upbeat tutorial.

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Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements

In this tutorial, we’ll create drawn elements, use design brushes, bring them into Photoshop, and merge them into a unique poster composition that feels hand-made, stylistically unified, and personalized. The techniques here are focused on creating an original artistic illustration. Let’s see how this poster design was created.

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How to Create Typography Poster Enigma Using Photoshop

In this tutorial we will go through the process of making this typography poster called “Enigma” only using Adobe Photoshop. You will have a basic look into the 3D-Tool of Photoshop, how to texture and stylize your 3D Typography and how to make a shiny space background to create your own space-inspired text. This is my first tutorial and I hope you guys will enjoy it!

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Using Typography to Create a Lunar New Year Card

In this quick tip you will learn how to use typography, gradients and the shear tool to make a striking card design, it can also be use for poster design.

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How to Create a Retro Sci-Fi Computer Game Poster

Combine stock photos and design resources to create an awesome retro sci-fi themed game poster that takes inspiration from Atari games of the 80s. By mixing up bright and vibrant cosmic designs with old, distressed and grungey textures we’ll create a retro futuristic poster design for ‘Galactic Attack’.

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Quick Grungy Poster

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a sort of grunge poster. We will learn how to make some elements look a bit dirty, create textures, and add some depths to the elements using shadows and blend modes.

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Create a Distressed Vector Typographic Poster Design

Follow this step by step walkthrough of my recent design process for the ‘Spectrum’ poster. Starting with custom made type in Illustrator, we’ll move our vector graphics into Photoshop for some serious distressing with Photoshop brushes, blending modes and more!

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Use glyphs to create a striking typographic poster in InDesign

In this tutorial you will learn how to use glyphs to create a striking typographic poster in InDesign.

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How to Create a Typographical Shape for Posters

The tutorial below walks you through these necessary steps, then shows you how to create a weathered paper background, and finally reveals how to put it all together to create a retro or grunge poster. We will first start in Illustrator and then move to Photoshop for the final touches.

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Design a Retro Typographic Poster Using 3D Elements in Photoshop

Using modern technology to achieve a vintage or retro look can be a bit challenging. In this tutorial, author Alex Beltechi will demonstrate how to give shiny 3D renderings a nice vintage feel. In this tutorial we will spend quite a bit of time in Cinema 4D, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

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Create Illustrated Type from Sketch to Vector

We have another great Vector tutorial here. If you want to learn how to combine illustration and typography, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!

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Using Extreme Typography to Make Vector Art

If you want to learn extreme uses for typography when creating your vector art, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!

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Conclusion

In this post, you will discover some high quality and truly helpful tutorials on creating typographic poster designs. We have compiled this post to help you learn new and useful techniques thereby improving your designing skills. Here is the full collection after the jump. We hope that you will enjoy this.

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