Retrofuturistic ads

Prompt

A 1920s-style newspaper advertisement for “Moon Vacations,” featuring a luxury rocket cruise landing on a scenic lunar resort with Earth visible in the sky, and the tagline, “The Moon Is Just a Ticket Away!”

Theme

Dive into a nostalgic future that never came to be! In this challenge, create vintage-style newspaper advertisements for inventions, technologies, or experiences imagined in the past but never realized.

Voting process

Everyone can submit their image to this post. At the end of the week all images will be collected and shared in a new voting post wherein people can vote on their favorite image. This will be up for at least 24 hours before a winner is made.

There are no extra points to be earned, OP will decide on a winner in case of a tie.

Rules

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else

  • One comment and image per user

  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged but not required (we’re all here for fun and learning)

  • OP will declare winner in case of a tie

  • The challenge runs for at least 7 days from now on

  • Down votes will not be counted

  • Voting and final scoring will be done in a separate post.

Scores

At the end of the challenge the image with the most votes, wins! It’s that simple this time :)

The winner gets to pick the next theme. As always, have fun everyone!

Previous entries

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago


    Prompt: a 1950s sci-fi newspaper full-page ad, of an atom-punk robotic chef cook wearing a chef’s hat, cooking a wonderful meal in a modern kitchen, two kids look up at the robot with big smiles, the text “What’s for dinner, Cuisine-Bot?” is written in bold font on the top of the page --ar 21:29 --v 6.1

    • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago
      My other images/backups :)


      Prompt: a 1930s sci-fi advertisement poster, of a farmer in a space suit, shooting at an alien insect with a ray gun , with the title “Critters after your crops?”, flat 2d design, at the bottom is a textbox with the text “Buy the Bug Blaster 3000!” with a schematic and some text


      Prompt a 1950s sci-fi newspaper full-page ad, of a man in a three-piece suit and wearing a fedora, smiling at the camera, standing on a teleporter pad, electrical currents crackle around the teleporter pad, the man is half faded, in a futuristic looking station, the title “Insta-pad Technologies” is written at the top, In the bottom the text “Getting you there in a flash!!” is written


      Prompt: a 1950s sci-fi socialist propaganda poster, of a man working next with a robot, in a field full of wheat, the title “Man or Machine” is written at the top, In the bottom the text “All workers must unite!” is written