How to achieve this effect in Illustrator

[Vincent Rosati]

I’m not sure exactly what you mean.
For the play button – I might print the clean design and do a pen & ink tracing, on a window or lightboard, in a grunge or distressed style. Then scan at a high resolution and redraw or Live Trace.
Or, maybe you could just find a grunge style vector icon library.
The only other grunge that I might see in this example is the purple background gradient. It would probably be best to produce this as a high resolution TIF in Photoshop, as a pure vector would have a ton of vector shapes.
You could potentially create a Scatter Brush in AI, out of an appropriate brush pattern, but again, if you need a vector it would result in a great many vector objects.
Another approach might be to start in Photoshop, then do a 3-color Live Trace in AI.
Nothing simple.

Vince

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[Laurits Rytter hansen]

Hi
I was thinking about the grunge texture 🙂 but thank you I will try that.