Summer is slowly fading into the season of fall, the weather is getting somehow colder, the mornings are more chill. As we are welcoming a new term, we also embrace the 'rain'. Whenever I think about rain, it constantly brings back these scenes from the 'Blade Runner' movies.
Roman Bratschi shared a quite intricate and, of course, beautiful 3D project titled Digital Rohrshach, which is inspired by The Rorschach test, a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.
Cheolhong Kim shared a beautiful typography project featuring a set of typographic artworks using CK font. This font is based on the shape of my logo"CK". This is still an on-going project and the same series of artworks will be published in the future by Cheolhong.
Kaio Cezar, Felipe Borba, and Lucas Souza shared a super creative and elegant branding and visual identity for Calme. From addictive medications to simple massages that are just simple human contact.
It's been quite some time we haven't posted about NFTs on abdz. And yet it's still buzzing on Twitter as usual so I decided to give it another stab at it. I stumbled across the work of Kaiwan Shaban, a visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany.
Edmundo Moi-Thuk-Shung is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Amsterdam. Edmundo has a beautiful portfolio of work including some quite stylish illustration projects with a nostalgic look.
Today was the first day back to school for students in Switzerland. It somehow reminds me of Japan because of how orderly, and structured was the students welcoming. I stumbled across the work of Minaminani Take who is an illustrator. based in Japan. She illustrates what I would call 'Life scenes', probably things that we would see across the world.
I feel like featuring a 5-year-old project by the incredible folks from Anagrama Studio, a design studio based in Mexico City, Mexico.
Somehow, by some absolute Christmas miracle, Stu Ballinger managed to secure an RTX 3090 for his computer. Naturally, with his new-found power, he’s now rendering all the stuff that his old card couldn't, such as super high polygon sliced geometry with a ridiculous specular depth.
Pier Paolo shared an awesome 3D project titled Universal. In times of misinformation and science denial he decided to use his tools to help spreading scientific knowledge and perhaps make more people curious about these topics. "UNIVERSAL" is a self-initiated project exploring concepts of physics and science.
Let me introduce you to Tommy Perez's paper crafting. His papercraft catches my eye where I had to stop to have a closer look at it, won't you? The OCD in me had me smirk to his work, clean, sharp paper cut, and even tho it's just a picture but you can feel the paper texture through it.
Huleeb is a freelance digital artist based in Montreal, Canada creating daily renders in Blender with the use of various image manipulation softwares. Huleeb’s work is simply stunning with an eerie mood and impeccable compositions. We selected a few samples for you to get inspired. Huleeb also takes on client work.
Specialty coffees have made their way to the Polish market, and are here to stay. Jawa Nie Sen is a new brand offering farmers coffee for those who care about quality.
Marcus Chaloner 's most recent work was spurred on by a recent talk Marcus gave to LCC students in the Spring about proceduralism for design. He wanted to create a system that could rapidly generate wooden forms that normally would’ve taken a painstakingly long time manually.
Remember that movie Her starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Spike Jonze. If you haven't seen the movie, please do watch it first. I just really appreciate the direction of photography by Hoyte van Hoytema. It tells the story of a man who develops a voiced AI virtual assistant named Samantha played by Scarlett Johansson.
Grano Santo is a specialty coffee shop located in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires. Estudio Nuar were summoned to create a brand with a retro, "porteño" and cool identity that would value the coffee process, showing it in a simple and attractive way, to bring closer consumers who are not immersed in the field.
From my early days in art school Ruben Grigorian was fascinated by impossible and unusual things. During his time in architecture school, boring architecture was his enemy. Ruben was fascinated by the works of Wolf D. Prix and Coop Himmelb(l)au, early Zaha Hadid and everyone else from the deconstructivist movement.
I have been digging the work of Martin Naumann and have been enjoying the abstract experiments that we have featured on abdz. Here's to another titled 'Osmosis' which is a series of personal experiments using Filter Forge. I will be honest, this is the first time I have heard of this tool.
Kaio Cezar and Ariel Santos shared a branding and visual identity project for Tera, a law practice that focuses on providing legal advice and executing compliance and corporate governance in order to promote a culture of integrity and ethics in government and business.
