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Nine years or so ago I posted my attempt at copying an attractive cigarette packet design. Now I'm a bit more experienced, I've had another go, along with an enamelled metal advertising sign.

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There are small differences between this and the one I made before. The design must have been redrawn at least once since it came out in 1886, but I haven't found any pics with dates. I called this Art Deco last time, but it predates that by forty or fifty years! Maybe we'd call it a Mackintosh-y rectilinear Art Nouveau?

The artwork is all vector, and I added two or three pixel layers to add some wear-&-tear textures.

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Brilliant work, remember them well, as I was often sent to the shop to purchase them for relatives, the days when age did not matter.

They were the Schoolboy's favourite cigarette as they came in packs of 5, fortunately never tempted, but know many who did.

 

Alan Pickup

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3 hours ago, AlanPickup said:

I was often sent to the shop to purchase them for relatives

My grandfather once told me that when he started work, leaving school at 13 (during the First World War) he'd often be given a penny and sent out for five 'gaspers' by an older workmate; he'd be given a ciggie in reward on his return. As he didn't smoke, he'd keep them in an empty packet till he had five and keep the penny. 

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Oh, I wan' a fag...  and I've never smoked in my life! 😀

This is so good! Truly. I love the 'wear and tear' texture you have put over the text, and the colours have a real vintage look...

The British tobacco company W.D. & H.O. Wills introduced the brand in England and Ireland in 1888. 

My mum smoked Player's Weights, then later, No.6.

I think you might like the Player's Weights box...
https://www.google.com/search?q=players+weights+cigarettes&sca_esv=882ccfba8c13de80&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB1031GB1031&udm=2&biw=1109&bih=472&sxsrf=AHTn8zqeXoAe1OihJmovh0uQVzNJtQeztA%3A1738597257691&ei=ieOgZ_rrKcfQhbIP17mcmAI&oq=players+weigh&gs_lp=EgNpbWciDXBsYXllcnMgd2VpZ2gqAggAMgQQIxgnMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIEEAAYHjIEEAAYHjIEEAAYHjIGEAAYBRgeMgYQABgFGB5I7yRQAFiGGXAAeACQAQCYAVugAccGqgECMTO4AQHIAQD4AQGYAg2gAuEGwgIKEAAYgAQYQxiKBcICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIOEAAYgAQYsQMYgwEYigXCAggQABiABBixA8ICDRAAGIAEGLEDGEMYigXCAgQQABgDmAMAkgcCMTOgB75d&sclient=img

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