This Artist Perfectly Reimagines City Logos in Retro 80s Style
Czech designer Kostya Petrenko has taken his love for retro visuals a step further with a new project that imagines what famous city logos might look like if they’d been designed in 1984.
After playing with global brands in his earlier 1980s Rewind series, he’s now turning that same nostalgic lens toward cities around the world, channeling the glow of arcade screens and the quirky charm of late‑night TV graphics.
New York shows up in bright blue and yellow, paired with a stripped‑down skyline and a glowing sun. Tokyo gets bold geometric lettering, a striped rising sun and the unmistakable shape of Mount Fuji. London becomes a neon‑yellow Big Ben, and Berlin’s TV Tower turns into a vibrant target made of layered reds and oranges.
Rome, Prague, Miami and Kyiv follow suit, each reduced to clean silhouettes, heavy gradients and punchy color combos that feel straight out of the ’80s. The whole series comes alive with short looping animations—scanlines, bloom, tiny distortions—everything you’d expect from an old CRT screen. It feels playful, nostalgic and very much in line with Petrenko’s ongoing fascination with the visual language of that era
