Acacio Ortas takes it back to the 90s with some retro design and illustration

Date
27 July 2015

Scrolling through Acacio Ortas’ portfolio feels like stepping into a world that has been frozen in time since the late 90s. Picture it: Windows 95 still reigns supreme, you’re renowned throughout Year Nine at school for being the local champion of Minesweeper, and you can’t so much as compose a letter to your pen-pal in Microsoft Word without that blasted paperclip popping up to “help.” Dabbling in that grey area between illustration and design, Acacio’s work is pure internet age gold – all gentle gradients, bar-charts and word-art, determinedly retro but weirdly new-feeling, too. It’s tongue in cheek but also unlike anything else, and we can’t resist an awkward comic strip.

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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