Typophile

Creating an ageing/vintage effect on typographic designs

Double Elephant

Hello,
I've just seen a beautiful piece of design work by Stranger and Stranger. Does anyone know how they created the ageing effect on the gold?

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The general distressing of the gold areas could be done by PASTING INTO the selected areas with a funky texture. For the lettering, adding an outside stroke and using DISSOLVE could achieve a similar effect with the type.

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