Capture methods.

 In illustrator I made the typographic elements, I used the font Madrid Pro and manipulated it's structure and added gradients.

 I took a photo of my hand and in Photoshop pixelated it to give it an 8-bit look.

For the final image I placed the previous elements onto a radial gradient background and to the typography added a small black outer glow to give it depth.I finally typed the year of my birth into the right hand corner of the image and set it behind the rest of the typography.