Helv-douken: Oliver Barrett's retro-game retro-designs

This is several months old, but I've just run across and was very taken with this Volkswagen-esque Street Fighter image by Cleveland based illustrator and designer Oliver Barrett.

It was designed for flickr-favorite-meme Make Something Cool Every Day, the same undertaking that has brought us the game-covers-as-Penguin-Classics-books of Olly Moss, and the I Can Read Movies artwork of Mitch 'Spacesick' Ansara (as well as Mz. Kat's engrish children's book illustrations).

Coincidentally, Barrett's also the designer behind the excellently nostalgic illo at left, which I'd neglected to mention here at the time.

oliveroliverbarrett [flickr, via Augusto Daniele]

Previously:
Moss gets modern: GTA's most wanted America - Offworld
The meme in motion: Spacesick's It's a Dig, Dig, Dig, Dig Dug ...
Engrish.com t-shirts re-imagined as Mary Blair-style children's book illos - Boing Boing